1. Louis Freeh is a lawyer and consultant in the private sector.
51 Facts About Louis Freeh
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Louis Freeh was born January 6,1950, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Italian-American parents Bernice, a bookkeeper, and William Louis Freeh Sr.
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Louis Freeh was an FBI Special Agent from 1975 to 1981 in the New York City field office and at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC In 1981, he joined the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant United States Attorney.
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Louis Freeh was a first lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve.
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Louis Freeh was appointed Special Prosecutor in the case alongside Howard Shapiro.
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Louis Freeh was tried by the state in 1996 for the murders and was executed by the state of Alabama in 2018 when he was 83 years old.
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Louis Freeh was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24,1991, and received his commission on May 30,1991.
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Louis Freeh's service terminated on August 31,1993, when he resigned to direct the FBI.
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In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Louis Freeh said that the widespread use of effective encryption "is one of the most difficult problems for law enforcement as the next century approaches".
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Louis Freeh considered the loss of wiretapping to law enforcement to be dangerous and said that the "country [would] be unable to protect itself" against terrorism and serious crimes.
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An investigation of the August 1992 incident at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in which an FBI sharpshooter killed the wife of Randy Weaver, was ongoing when Louis Freeh joined the FBI as its director.
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An FBI unit, the Hostage Rescue Team, was present at the incident; Louis Freeh later said that had he been director, he would not have involved the HRT.
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FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi was later charged with manslaughter; Louis Freeh said that he was "deeply disappointed" at the charges, filed by a county prosecutor and later dropped.
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Louis Freeh was not censured for alleged managerial failures in the investigation of the incident, although a Justice Department inquiry had made such a recommendation.
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Louis Freeh took a neutral position during the investigations to distance himself from the tide of criticism.
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Louis Freeh said in his book My FBI that he felt the deepest sadness about the Khobar Towers investigation.
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The US Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information heard testimony from Louis Freeh regarding the leaking of Richard Jewell's name to the media in connection with the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games.
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Louis Freeh testified that he did not know how the name of Jewell, who had been falsely accused in the bombings, had been leaked to the media; CNN reported that Louis Freeh had lied under oath.
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Louis Freeh called the security breach "exceptionally grave" and appointed a panel, led by former FBI and Central Intelligence Agency head William Webster, to review the damage done by Hanssen's espionage.
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Louis Freeh accused him of downloading a "portable, personal trove" of US nuclear secrets.
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In February 1997, the media announced that Louis Freeh personally blocked the sharing of intelligence information regarding China's alleged plot to influence US elections with the White House.
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Later that year, Louis Freeh wrote a memorandum to Attorney General Janet Reno calling for an Independent Counsel to investigate the fundraising scandal.
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In 2000, the editorial staff of Business Week called for the resignation of Louis Freeh, citing the Carnivore communications-monitoring system, the alleged Waco cover-up, and insubordination to Attorney General Reno as reasons.
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Louis Freeh was accused of malpractice several times during his time at the FBI.
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Louis Freeh received backlash for not looking into whether Moscow had recruited someone in the FBI, despite being warned by senior investigator Thomas Kimmel.
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In 1994 after it was discovered that Aldrich Ames was a spy for the Russians, Louis Freeh was advised to require routine polygraph tests for FBI agents; no action was taken by him.
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Louis Freeh admitted that his testimony was incomplete, but denied he deliberately misled congress.
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Whitehurst would later accuse Louis Freeh of covering up mistakes made by forensic analysts.
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Louis Freeh was replaced by Thomas J Pickard, who served as acting FBI Director for 71 days until being replaced by Robert Mueller.
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Louis Freeh approached acting New Jersey Governor Donald DiFrancesco, and offered to serve, without salary, as the state's anti-terrorism "czar".
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In September 2001, Louis Freeh was appointed to the board of directors of credit card issuer MBNA; he served as the bank's general counsel, as well as corporate secretary and ethics officer.
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Louis Freeh is a member of the board of consultants of the Gavel Consulting Group, formed by current and former federal judges and high-ranking government officials to provide advice and counseling to the private sector.
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In 2007, Louis Freeh formed Louis Freeh Group International Solutions, a consulting and investigative firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with regional offices in Washington, DC, and New York.
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Louis Freeh was hired by Nasser Kazeminy to conduct an independent investigation into alleged financial improprieties in the relationship between Kazeminy and former Senator Norm Coleman that surfaced during the final week of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race.
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At the time, Louis Freeh was serving on the board of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, whose chairman was Kazeminy.
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In 2009, Louis Freeh was hired by Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan as his legal representative on issues surrounding the Al-Yamamah arms deal, appearing April 7,2009, on the PBS series Frontlines episode "Black Money".
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In late May 2011, Louis Freeh was retained as an independent investigator by the FIFA Ethics Committee in the bribery scandal centering on Mohammed bin Hammam and Jack Warner.
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Louis Freeh announced that the team assisting him in his investigation would include former FBI agents and federal prosecutors.
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There's no doubt in my mind, Louis Freeh steered everything as if he were a prosecutor trying to convince a court to take the case.
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An investigation led by former US Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, who was retained by the Paterno family to review the Louis Freeh report, concluded that the report that placed so much blame on Penn State and Paterno was a "rush to injustice" that could not be relied upon.
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In January 2013, state senator Jake Corman and state treasurer Rob McCord launched a lawsuit against the NCAA to overturn the sanctions on Penn State on the basis that Louis Freeh had been actively collaborating with the NCAA and that due process had not been followed.
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In November 2014, state senator Corman released emails showing "regular and substantive" contact between NCAA officials and Louis Freeh's investigators, suggesting that the Louis Freeh conclusions were orchestrated.
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In November 2011, Louis Freeh was named trustee for the MF Global bankruptcy case, the largest Wall Street bankruptcy since Lehman Brothers' in September 2008.
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Louis Freeh was appointed by US Trustee Tracy Hope Davis working under the authority of US Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin Glenn.
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On February 5,2013, Louis Freeh was named Chair of the law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP.
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Louis Freeh resigned the chairmanship earlier than slated, in October 2014.
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In 2005, Louis Freeh published a book about his career in the FBI entitled My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror.
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On October 19,2005, Louis Freeh made an appearance on The Daily Show to promote the book.
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In 1980, Louis Freeh began dating Marilyn Coyle, then a paralegal in the FBI's civil rights division.
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Shortly after noon on August 25,2014, Louis Freeh was headed south on Vermont 12, in his 2010 GMC Yukon, when he drove off the east side of the road.
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Louis Freeh was flown from Barnard to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he was admitted under armed guard.