1. Paul Joseph McNulty was born on January 31,1958 and is an American attorney and university administrator who is currently the ninth president of Grove City College.
19 Facts About Paul McNulty
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Paul McNulty served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from March 17,2006, to July 26,2007.
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Paul McNulty was nominated as US Attorney by President George W Bush and confirmed on September 14,2001.
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Paul McNulty replaced acting Deputy Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr.
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Paul McNulty graduated from Grove City College, a small Christian school in western Pennsylvania, in 1980.
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Bush, Paul McNulty was the Justice Department's director of policy and its chief spokesman.
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Paul McNulty serves on the board of trustees of the Trinity Forum.
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Paul McNulty was Chief Counsel and Director of Legislative Operations for the Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives.
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Paul McNulty was Chief Counsel to the House Subcommittee on Crime where he served for eight years.
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Paul McNulty served as chief counsel and communications director for House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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Paul McNulty has played a significant role in shaping criminal justice policy in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Paul McNulty was a primary architect of the "Parole Abolition and Sentencing Reform" initiative in 1994, and he served on the board of the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the advisory committee of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Paul McNulty, who had no trial experience, presided over a dramatic expansion of that office over the next four years before taking over as Gonzales's second-in-command.
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The Paul McNulty Memo requires that when federal prosecutors seek privileged attorney-client communications or legal advice from a company, the US Attorney must obtain written approval from the Deputy Attorney General.
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On May 14,2007, Paul McNulty announced his resignation in a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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Paul McNulty became a central figure after he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on February 6,2007, "that the White House played only a marginal role in the dismissals," a statement that was contradicted by later testimony and subsequently released documents.
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Paul McNulty said most of the prosecutors were fired for "performance-related" reasons.
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Gonzales was upset, his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson has told congressional investigators, that Paul McNulty's revelation put "in the public sphere" the uncomfortable fact that the White House helped engineer the dismissal.
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On May 14, Paul McNulty announced his resignation, which took effect July 26,2007.