1. Andrew A Weissmann was born on March 17,1958 and is an American attorney and professor.
17 Facts About Andrew Weissmann
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Andrew Weissmann was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1991 to 2002, when he prosecuted high-profile organized crime cases.
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Andrew Weissmann served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S Mueller's Special Counsel's Office, as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice and is currently a professor at NYU Law School.
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In 2002, President George W Bush appointed Weissmann to be the deputy director and then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Enron Task Force.
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The special counsel's investigation concluded in 2019 and Andrew Weissmann went into the private sector.
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Andrew Weissmann grew up in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
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Andrew Weissmann subsequently attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1980.
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Andrew Weissmann then clerked for Judge Eugene Nickerson in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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In 1991, Andrew Weissmann worked as an Assistant US Attorney in the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and would remain in this role until 2002.
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Andrew Weissmann led the prosecution team in the Vincent Gigante case, in which Gigante was convicted.
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From 2002 to 2005, Weissmann was the deputy director appointed by George W Bush, prior to his assignment as the director of the task force investigating the Enron scandal.
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Andrew Weissmann's work resulted in the prosecution of more than 30 people for crimes including perjury, fraud, and obstruction, including three of Enron's top executives, Andrew Fastow, Kenneth Lay, and Jeffrey Skilling.
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Andrew Weissmann has taught at NYU School of Law, Fordham Law School, and Brooklyn Law School.
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On June 19,2017, Andrew Weissmann joined Special Counsel Mueller's team to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
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Andrew Weissmann was called "the architect of the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort".
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Andrew Weissmann has been described as a "pitbull" by The New York Times, and critics have said he deployed "hard-nosed tactics and a 'win-at-all-costs' mentality" in the Enron prosecution.
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Andrew Weissmann's book, entitled Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, was published in September 2023.