1. Carol Chien-Hua Lam is a former United States attorney for the Southern District of California.
27 Facts About Carol Lam
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On November 12,2002, Carol Lam was further sworn in as a Senate confirmed presidential appointee.
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Carol Lam was one of eight attorneys fired in the dismissal of US attorneys controversy.
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Carol Lam received her JD from Stanford Law School in 1985.
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Carol Lam then served as a judge of the Superior Court in San Diego, presiding over a criminal trial calendar.
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In 2002, Lam was appointed US Attorney for the Southern District of California by George W Bush.
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In 2007, Carol Lam was asked to resign by the Bush administration.
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Subsequent to the dismissal, the administration claimed that Carol Lam did not allocate sufficient resources to prosecuting border crimes, echoing US Representative Darrell Issa's complaints.
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On February 26,2007, Carol Lam joined Qualcomm as Senior Vice President and Legal Counsel for the Company's Legal Team.
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Carol Lam, there has been no public statement as to whether her hiring was predicated on the emergence of the scandal.
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In November 2008, Carol Lam was named as Deputy General Counsel for Qualcomm.
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Carol Lam was an expert in prosecuting healthcare fraud, having authored a 954-page textbook on the subject.
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Carol Lam personally prosecuted the case in a second trial; after seven months in the courtroom and a record of four months of jury deliberation, the judge declared another mistrial on April 4,2006.
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The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, has reported that Carol Lam was investigating Republican Congressman Jerry Lewis at the time of her dismissal.
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The Los Angeles Times, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel and Senator Chuck Schumer, and others, asserted that Carol Lam was investigating Jerry Lewis, suggesting that her firing by the Bush administration was politically motivated.
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On December 7,2006, Michael A Battle, director of the Executive Office for US Attorneys, called Lam and notified her that she must resign no later than January 31,2007.
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Battle instructed Carol Lam to explain that she had decided to pursue other opportunities.
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McNulty added that he knew Carol Lam had been through a long trial and had great respect for her.
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On January 5,2007, Battle said her request was "not being received positively" and that Carol Lam "should stop thinking in terms of the cases in the office".
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Battle insisted that Carol Lam had to depart in weeks, not months, and these orders were "coming from the very highest levels of government".
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Carol Lam submitted her resignation January 16,2007, effective February 15.
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Many prominent Democrats, including Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, allege that Carol Lam's firing was part of a broader, vengeful move against prosecutors that have pursued political corruption cases that damaged the careers of Republican politicians, or that were not loyal enough to either the Republican Party or the administration.
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Senator Hatch's description of Carol Lam was inaccurate; Carol Lam was never a campaign manager for any candidate, nor a law professor, and she is an experienced prosecutor.
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Carol Lam was named Attorney of the Year by the San Diego County Bar Association in February 2007.
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Carol Lam has been frequently mentioned as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States by observers of Barack Obama's administration.
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Carol Lam is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Sau-Wing Carol Lam of Tenafly, New Jersey.
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Carol Lam married Mark Steven Burnett, a geophysicist specializing in oceanography, on August 23,1986.