Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019.
46 Facts About Rod Rosenstein
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President Donald Trump nominated Rod Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General on February 1,2017.
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Rod Rosenstein was confirmed by the US Senate on April 25,2017.
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Rod Rosenstein previously assumed authority over the parallel FBI probe after Sessions recused himself over misleading remarks he made to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during his confirmation process.
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The New York Times reported Rod Rosenstein prevented the FBI and Mueller from investigating Trump's personal and financial dealings in Russia.
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Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation as deputy attorney general on April 29,2019, which took effect on May 11,2019.
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Rod Rosenstein was born in 1965 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Philadelphia.
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Rod Rosenstein's father, Robert, ran a small business, whilst his mother, Gerri Rosenstein, was a bookkeeper and local school board president.
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Rod Rosenstein has one sister, Dr Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Rod Rosenstein then served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Rod Rosenstein then worked in the United States Office of the Independent Counsel under Ken Starr on the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton.
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From 2001 to 2005, Rod Rosenstein served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice.
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Rod Rosenstein coordinated the tax enforcement activities of the Tax Division, the US Attorneys' Offices and the IRS, and he supervised 90 attorneys and 30 support employees.
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Rod Rosenstein oversaw civil litigation and served as the acting head of the Tax Division when Assistant Attorney General Eileen J O'Connor was unavailable, and he personally briefed and argued civil appeals in several federal appellate courts.
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President George W Bush nominated Rosenstein to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on May 23,2005.
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Rod Rosenstein took office on July 12,2005, after the US Senate unanimously confirmed his nomination.
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Rod Rosenstein was the only US Attorney retained by President Barack Obama.
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Rod Rosenstein secured several convictions against prison guards in Baltimore for conspiring with the Black Guerrilla Family.
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Rod Rosenstein indicted Baltimore police officers Wayne Jenkins, Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and Maurice Ward for racketeering.
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The Attorney General appointed Rod Rosenstein to serve on the Advisory Committee of US Attorneys, which evaluates and recommends policies for the Department of Justice.
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Rod Rosenstein served on the Attorney General's Anti-Gang Coordination Committee.
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Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Rod Rosenstein to prosecute General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for leaking to reporters.
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Rod Rosenstein served as the US Attorney in Maryland during a period in which homicides decreased by approximately one-third, in other words, double the decline at the national level.
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Maryland's Democratic United States Senators, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, blocked Rod Rosenstein's nomination, claiming he did not have strong enough ties to Maryland.
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President Trump nominated Rod Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General on February 1,2017.
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Rod Rosenstein was one of the 46 United States Attorneys ordered on March 10,2017, to resign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Trump declined to accept his resignation.
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On May 8,2017, President Trump directed Sessions and Rod Rosenstein to make a case against FBI Director James Comey in writing.
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The next day, Rod Rosenstein handed a memo to Sessions providing the basis for Sessions's recommendation to President Trump that Comey be dismissed.
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Some critics argued that Rod Rosenstein, in enabling the dismissal of Comey amid an investigation into Russian election interference, damaged his own reputation.
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Rod Rosenstein denied the claim and said he was "not quitting," when asked directly by a reporter from Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Rod Rosenstein's order authorizes Mueller to bring criminal charges in the event that he discovers any federal crimes.
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Subsequently, it was revealed that Devin Nunes wanted to impeach Rod Rosenstein, but was concerned that attempting to do so would delay the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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On September 21,2018, The New York Times reported that Rod Rosenstein suggested, in the spring of 2017 shortly after the dismissal of Comey, that he could secretly tape conversations between himself and Trump.
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Rod Rosenstein allegedly suggested invoking the 25th amendment to attempt to remove Trump from office.
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Rod Rosenstein strongly denied it, and other reporting suggested he had been sarcastic in his reference to taping Trump.
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Further, Rod Rosenstein agreed to meet with House Republicans within the next two weeks.
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Rod Rosenstein criticized the FBI and Congress for leaks regarding the investigation.
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Rod Rosenstein insisted that children should be separated from their parents irrespective of the child's age, even if they were infants.
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The findings led Rod Rosenstein to admit that family separations "should never have been implemented".
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Rod Rosenstein was expected to step down from his position in mid-March 2019.
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Rod Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian, an Armenian American lawyer who worked for the National Institutes of Health until 2011.
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Rod Rosenstein has served as an adjunct professor, teaching classes on federal criminal prosecution at the University of Maryland School of Law and trial advocacy at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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Rod Rosenstein was a member of Washington DC's Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish congregation, from 2008 to 2014.
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Rod Rosenstein served on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2001 to 2011.
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Rod Rosenstein was the subject of a song by Ben Folds called "Mr Peepers", a reference to the supposed nickname given to him by President Trump.
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Rod Rosenstein was portrayed by actor Scoot McNairy in the Showtime TV miniseries The Comey Rule.