Emil Joseph Bove III is an American attorney who served as acting US deputy attorney general from January 20,2025 to March 6,2025.
12 Facts About Emil Bove
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Emil Bove is a former assistant United States Attorney and was a member of Donald Trump's legal defense team.
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Emil Bove attended the University at Albany, SUNY, where he was captain of the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team.
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Emil Bove earned his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University School of Law in 2008.
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Emil Bove left the office in 2022 to work in the private sector.
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Emil Bove became a partner at Blanche Law, the law firm established by Todd Blanche.
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On his second day in office, January 21,2025, Emil Bove instructed federal prosecutors to investigate local officials who declined to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
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On January 31,2025, as part of the ongoing purge of civil servants in the second Trump administration, Emil Bove ordered the FBI to fire eight senior executives and compile a list of other employees involved in investigations stemming from the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
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The reaction within the FBI to Emil Bove's order was intensely negative.
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On February 5,2025, Emil Bove distributed a memo to the FBI workforce accusing bureau leadership of "insubordination" for refusing to identify Washington, DC-based agents who had overseen the January 6 investigation.
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Emil Bove characterised the intended dismissal of Adams' case as "the policy of a duly elected President".
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Emil Bove then gathered the remaining roughly two dozen public integrity division prosecutors, telling them that those who did not agree to sign the motion might be fired, while those who did sign might be promoted.