Michael Chertoff was born on November 28,1953 and is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W Bush.
40 Facts About Michael Chertoff
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Michael Chertoff was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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Michael Chertoff previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant US Attorney General.
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Michael Chertoff succeeded Tom Ridge as US Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15,2005.
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Michael Chertoff co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk-management and security consulting company.
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Michael Chertoff is the Chair and a member of the board of trustees in the international freedom watchdog Freedom House.
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Michael Chertoff sits on the bipartisan advisory board of States United Democracy Center.
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Michael Chertoff was born on November 28,1953, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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Michael Chertoff's father was Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff, a Talmud scholar and the former leader of the Congregation B'nai Israel in Elizabeth.
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Michael Chertoff's mother was Livia Chertoff, she was a naturalized American citizen after having held status under a British mandate and was the first flight attendant for El Al.
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Michael Chertoff attended the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth as well as the Pingry School.
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Michael Chertoff graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975.
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Michael Chertoff then attended Harvard Law School, where he worked as a research assistant for John Hart Ely on his book Democracy and Distrust.
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In September 1986, together with United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Chertoff was instrumental in the crackdown on organized crime in the Mafia Commission Trial.
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Michael Chertoff was asked to stay in his position when the Clinton administration took office in 1993, at the request of Democratic Senator Bill Bradley.
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Michael Chertoff was the only United States Attorney who was not replaced due to the change in administrations.
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In 2000, Michael Chertoff worked as special counsel to the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, investigating racial profiling in New Jersey.
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Michael Chertoff did some fundraising for George W Bush and other Republicans during the 2000 election cycle.
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Michael Chertoff advised Bush's presidential campaign on criminal justice issues.
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Michael Chertoff was appointed by Bush to head the criminal division of the Department of Justice, serving from 2001 to 2003.
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Michael Chertoff led the federal prosecution's case against suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
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In 2002 and 2003, Michael Chertoff provided legal advice to the CIA on the use of coercive interrogation methods against terror suspects such as Abu Zubaydah.
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Michael Chertoff led the prosecution's case against accounting firm Arthur Andersen for destroying documents relating to the Enron collapse.
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On March 5,2003, Chertoff was nominated by President Bush to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Morton I Greenberg.
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Senator Clinton said that she had dissented to register her protest for the way Michael Chertoff's staff mistreated junior White House staffers during the Whitewater investigation.
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Michael Chertoff served as a federal judge from 2003 to 2005.
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Michael Chertoff was unanimously approved for the position by the United States Senate on February 15,2005.
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Hurricane Katrina occurred while Michael Chertoff was Secretary of Homeland Security.
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Michael Chertoff was the Bush administration's point man for pushing the comprehensive immigration reform bill, a measure that stalled in the Senate in June 2007.
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Michael Chertoff was asked by the Obama administration to stay in his post until 9 am on January 21,2009, "to ensure a smooth transition".
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In September 2007, Michael Chertoff told a House committee that the DHS would not tolerate interference by sanctuary cities that would block the "Basic Pilot Program," which requires some types of employers to validate the legal status of their workers.
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In 2008 it was reported that the residential housekeeping company Michael Chertoff had hired to clean his house employed undocumented immigrants.
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Michael Chertoff formed The Chertoff Group on February 2,2009, to work on crisis and risk management.
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The firm is led by Chad Sweet; he served as the Chief of Staff of Homeland Security while Michael Chertoff was Secretary and had a two-year stint at the Directorate of Operations for the CIA.
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Michael Chertoff was elected as Chairman of BAE Systems for a three-year term, beginning May 1,2012.
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Michael Chertoff is a member of the Atlantic Council's board of directors.
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From 2017 to 2019, Michael Chertoff served as a member of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and was made a co-chair of the commission in its final year.
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At the Global Creative Leadership Summit in 2009, Michael Chertoff described globalization as a double-edged sword.
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Michael Chertoff has been an advocate of enhanced technologies, such as full body scanners.
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Michael Chertoff's consulting firm Chertoff Group represented manufacturers of the scanners.