Lanny A. Breuer
| Lanny A. Breuer | |
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| Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division | |
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In office April 20, 2009 – March 1, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Attorney General | Eric Holder |
| Succeeded by | Mythili Raman (Acting) |
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| Born |
Lanny Arthur Breuer August 5, 1958 New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Breuer |
| Education | Columbia University (B.A., J.D.) |
| Profession | Attorney at Law |
Lanny Arthur Breuer (born 1958) is an American lawyer and was the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. On January 30, 2013, the Department of Justice announced that AAG Breuer would leave his post on March 1, 2013.
After graduating from Columbia Law School, Breuer was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan from 1985 to 1989. Asked how his mother reacted to his decision to become a junior DA after an expensive Columbia education, he recalled:
My parents just never made any money at all. I called up my mother to break the news that her son was not going to a law firm: “Mom, you’ve just got to remember that Cy Vance Jr. — who, of course, is now the D.A. — he’s in the D.A.’s office. And Dan Rather Jr., he’s in the D.A.’s office. And Andrew Cuomo, the son of the governor, he’s in the D.A.’s office.” There was a long pause. And my mother said: “Them? They should go to the D.A.’s office. You? You should go to a firm.”
As an assistant district attorney, he prosecuted violent crime, such as armed robbery and gang violence, white collar crime, and other offenses.
From 1989 until 1997, Breuer practiced law with the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C.
In 1997, Breuer joined the White House Counsel’s Office as special counsel to President William Jefferson Clinton, working under counsel to the president Charles F.C. Ruff. As special counsel, Breuer defended the White House and President Clinton in the congressional and Justice Department investigations of the Clinton campaign's fundraising. He also defended the White House and President Clinton in the various independent counsel investigations, including Ken Starr's Lewinsky investigation. During the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, he defended the President in the impeachment hearings in the House and the impeachment trial in the Senate.
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