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12 Facts About Elie Honig

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Elie Honig was born on April 3,1975 and is an American attorney and legal commentator.

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Elie Honig was born in Camden, New Jersey, on April 3,1975 and grew up in Voorhees Township and Cherry Hill.

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Elie Honig is Jewish and had a bar mitzvah ceremony.

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Elie Honig graduated from Cherry Hill High School East, a public high school in Cherry Hill in 1993.

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Elie Honig earned his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in 1997 and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2000.

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DC From 2004 to 2012, Elie Honig was an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York.

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Elie Honig secured convictions against 100 members of the American mafia, including members of the Genovese and Gambino crime families such as Ciro Perrone, Matthew Ianniello, Angelo Prisco, Daniel Marino, and Joseph Corozzo.

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In September 2012, Elie Honig joined the Attorney General of New Jersey's office as the deputy director of the Division of Criminal Justice.

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Elie Honig was named director of the division in February 2013.

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Elie Honig led the division's bail reform initiative in 2017.

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Elie Honig has produced a podcast, "Up Against the Mob", and a documentary for CNN on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in which he interviewed the trial's prosecutor, Gabriel Bach.

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Elie Honig's wife, Rachael, is an attorney; she was an assistant United States attorney for New Jersey.