Jamie Gorelick
Jamie Gorelick | |
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Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council | |
Assumed office March 21, 2022 Serving with William Bratton | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | William Webster |
28th United States Deputy Attorney General | |
In office March 17, 1994 – May 1997 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Philip Heymann |
Succeeded by | Eric Holder |
General Counsel of the Department of Defense | |
In office May 5, 1993 – March 17, 1994 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | David Addington |
Succeeded by | Judith Miller |
Personal details | |
Born | Jamie Shona Gorelick[1] May 6, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse |
Richard Waldhorn (m. 1975) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Shirley Gorelick (mother) |
Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Jamie Shona Gorelick (
Gorelick served on
Early life and education
Gorelick was born in
Gorelick was president of the District of Columbia Bar from 1992 to 1993.[8]
She is a law partner in the Washington office of
Deputy Attorney General
While serving as Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, Gorelick spoke in favor of banning the use of
Private practice
Gorelick is a lobbyist for the lending industry fighting student loan reform.[11] Gorelick has also represented Cardinal Health.[12]
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Gorelick was appointed Vice Chairman of
On March 25, 2002,
In an additional scandal concerning falsified financial transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a "manipulation" that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives,[17] Gorelick received $779,625.
A 2006 report of an investigation by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight into Fannie Mae's accounting practices and corporate governance revealed that from 1998 to 2002 Gorelick received a total of $26.5 million in income from Fannie Mae.[18]
9/11 Commission
Gorelick's wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post, "At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that 'the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents' and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo."[19] However, the report from the 9/11 Commission, co-authored by Gorelick, asserts that the 'wall' limiting the ability of federal agencies to cooperate had existed since the 1980s and is in fact not one singular wall but a series of restrictions created over the course of over twenty years.[20]
Conflict of interest
A 1995 U.S. Department of Justice memorandum states that the procedures her memorandum put in place for the investigation of the 1993 WTC bombing "go beyond what is legally required...[to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation." The wall intentionally exceeded the requirements of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) for the purposes of criminal investigations, as well as the then-existing federal case law. These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations.[21]
Gorelick eventually recused herself from reviewing her own role in the regulation of information about terrorist activities.[
Testifying before the commission, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "Although you understand the debilitating impact of the wall, I cannot imagine that the commission knew about this memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review," he said. "Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this commission."[22]
Lawyer for Opioid Distributor
Jamie Gorelick has been accused of lobbying on behalf of the drug industry and limiting the government's ability to hold opioid distributors accountable. [23] Gorelick's firm WilmerHale represented Cardinal Health, an opioid distributor. Since 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration had been building a case for Cardinal Health for distributing staggering amounts of drugs to treat pain. In 2012, Cardinal Health got wind of the DEA's investigation into the company's distribution of millions of opioid drugs every month. [24] Joseph T. Rannazzisi, the head the DEA's Office of Diversion Control at the time, believed that Gorelick's actions compromised the DEA's active investigation.[25]
Lawyer for Duke University
Gorelick was added in February 2008 to
Lawyer for Jared Kushner
Gorelick represented Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, as he considered a possible role in the White House. She had advised Kushner, who has sprawling financial interests in a multibillion-dollar global real estate empire, on how he might comply with federal ethics and anti-nepotism laws. She has argued that although officials leading federal agencies are barred from hiring relatives, the White House is not an agency and thus exempt.[27] Gorelick argued that if Kushner forgoes a White House salary, he would not be bound by federal nepotism rules.[28] Though Kushner has no experience in government or public policy, Trump directed that during his presidential transition all foreign-policy matters be relayed through Kushner. Kushner participated in meetings between Trump and foreign heads of state while continuing to run the Kushner Companies.[29] On July 14, 2017, Gorelick stepped away from the lead role in the Russian investigation and turned over all responsibilities to Abbe Lowell. Gorelick will still work on other matters for Kushner that she was originally retained for.[30][31] In September 2017 she briefly fell for fake emails originating from "email prankster" James Linton purporting to be from Kushner but didn't reveal anything confidential.[32]
Charitable work and community involvement
Gorelick has served on the boards of the
Personal
She is married to Richard Edward Waldhorn,
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0160436116.
- ^ "Officers & Directors". Amazon. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ^ (Dec 17, 2020), Amazon Board of Directors Compensation and Salary ~ Jamie Gorelick $952,741
- ^ Phillip, Abby (June 17, 2010). "Gorelick's challenge: Backing BP". POLITICO. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
- The Jewish Daily Forward.
Gorelick is originally from Great Neck, a Long Island suburb of New York City, where she grew up in a Jewish family.
- ^ "Famous Great Neck Alumni from the 1960s". Great Neck Public Schools. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
- ^ "Gorelick To Leave Justice Department". Justice Department. January 15, 1997.
- ISBN 9780379215304.
- ^ Gorelick biography Archived February 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine from United Technologies Corporation
- ^ McCullagh, Declan (July 14, 1996). "Crypto Storm Warning". HotWired. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- New York Times.
- Washington Post. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
- ^ False Signatures Aided Fannie Mae Bonuses, Falcon Says
- ^ "Friends of Barack". The Wall Street Journal. June 11, 2008.
- ^ BW Online | March 25, 2002 | Q&A with Fannie Mae's Jamie Gorelick
- ^ Samuelson, Robert J. (January 5, 2005). "The Trouble With Fannie Mae". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
- ^ Day, Kathleen; O'Hara, Terence (April 7, 2005). "False Signatures Aided Fannie Mae Bonuses, Falcon Says". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
- ^ Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (May 2006). "Table V-1: Compensation of Top Fannie Mae Executives, 1998-2003". Report of the Special Examination of Fannie Mae (PDF) (Report). United States Government. p. 58 (PDF page 66).
- Washington Post.
- ^ a b Gorton, Slade (August 18, 2005). "Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times". Washington Times.
- ^ Memo from Jamie Gorelick to Mary Jo White, Louis Freeh, Richard Scrugge, and Jo Ann Harris. "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ August 18, 2005, letter to the editor in The Washington Times. Retrieved July 3, 2007, from Yahoo Cache.
- ^ Hersko, Tyler (May 10, 2021). "'The Crime of the Century' Review: Alex Gibney Shows How Big Pharma Created the Opioid Epidemic". IndieWire. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
- ^ "American Cartel: Inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry". Washington Post. July 7, 2022. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
- ^ Duke Adds to Legal Team in Lacrosse Lawsuit Fight:: WRAL.com
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- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "One of Jared Kushner's lawyers in the Russia probe is 'dropping out'". Business Insider. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
- ^ Conway, Madeline (July 14, 2017). "Kushner lawyer Abbe Lowell taking over Russia case from Gorelick". Politico. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
- ^ Rubino, Kathryn (October 5, 2017). "It Happened AGAIN — Another Biglaw Partner Falls For Internet Prank". Retrieved April 10, 2020.
- ^ Gorelick biography from Wilmer Hale
- ^ Washington Post profile Retrieved March 24, 2017.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Gorelick official biography from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
- Gorelick's Wall, Wall Street Journal(4/15/04)