1. Victoria Toensing graduated from Indiana University in 1962 with a degree in education.
17 Facts About Victoria Toensing
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Victoria Toensing taught high-school English until she entered law school, earning a JD from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1975.
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Victoria Toensing joined the US attorney's office in Detroit, where she prosecuted narcotics cases.
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In 1981, Victoria Toensing became chief counsel to Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where she helped draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
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Victoria Toensing was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department during the Reagan administration.
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Victoria Toensing led a counterterrorist investigation into the 15 May Organization for the bombing and attempted bombing of two Pan Am jets in 1982.
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Victoria Toensing was a founder and board member of The WISH List, a PAC seeking to elect pro-choice Republican women to public office.
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The PAC was inspired by EMILY's List, a pro-choice Democratic PAC, and Victoria Toensing advocated for a "big tent" Republican Party that includes both pro-life and pro-choice members.
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In March 2005, Victoria Toensing submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, two journalists who were subpoenaed in the Plame investigation for refusing to reveal information obtained from confidential sources.
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Victoria Toensing supported former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson in the Republican primaries for the 2008 presidential election.
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Victoria Toensing represents Mark Corallo, who had previously served as a spokesman for Trump's private legal team during the investigation into possible collusion between members of Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russian government.
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Victoria Toensing has represented Sam Clovis, a former Trump campaign co-chair, and Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, who has informally advised Trump.
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In spring 2019, Victoria Toensing began representing former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin and then-prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko.
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Victoria Toensing has been living in Austria since being arrested there at the request of American authorities in 2014 and released on $155 million bail.
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The former Victoria Long married Trent Toensing in 1962; the couple divorced in 1976.
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DiGenova and Victoria Toensing are partners in the eponymous Washington, DC law firm.
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Formerly, Brady Victoria Toensing was vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party, as well as a high-profile and controversial Vermont lawyer, and partner in his mother's and step-father's law firm.