15 Facts About Timothy Shea

Timothy Shea is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 2020 to 2021.

Timothy Shea intervened in the criminal case against convicted Trump associate Roger Stone, recommending a lighter sentence for Stone than the career prosecutors who had worked on the case.

Timothy Shea was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, into a family of five generations of firefighters.

Timothy Shea has served in a variety of roles in the Justice Department.

Timothy Shea was an assistant US Attorney in Virginia between 1992 and 1997.

Timothy Shea was chief of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office's Public Protection Bureau from 1999 to 2001.

Timothy Shea was chief counsel and staff director for the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Timothy Shea worked on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee.

Timothy Shea was a "close confidant" to Attorney General William Barr and "Barr's right-hand man" at the Justice Department, according to Fox News.

Some high-profile investigations that Timothy Shea oversaw are related to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Barr told ABC News that Timothy Shea initially signaled to him that the recommendation would be about half the time that the line prosecutors requested.

Timothy Shea's name was attached to both the initial recommendation of a seven- to nine-year prison term for Stone, and Barr's version a day later that called the first version "excessive".

In March 2020, Timothy Shea's office dropped its two-year-long prosecution of two Russian shell companies, Concord Management and Concord Consulting, which had been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States by running a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Timothy Shea wrote the Justice Department's motion on May 7,2020, to dismiss the charges against Michael Flynn, the former US national security advisor to Donald Trump.

Shortly before his departure, Timothy Shea reorganized the criminal division of the US Attorney's office.