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United States Eastern District of New York Counties

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in five New York counties: Kings (Brooklyn),

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

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(Staten Island),

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and

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. The current U.S. Attorney is Breon Peace, who took over in October 2021. The

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, ...

has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted and defended by the U.S. Attorney.

History

The Eastern District of New York was formed by taking away these five counties from the

Southern District of New York The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of New York State. Two of these are in New York City: New ...

in 1865.

List of U.S. Attorneys

* Benjamin D. Silliman: 1865–1866 * Benjamin F. Tracy: 1866–1877 * Asa Wentworth Tenney: 1877–1885 * Mark D. Wilber: 1885–1889 * Jesse Johnson: 1889–1894 * John Oakey: 1894 * James L. Bennett: 1894–1898 * George H. Pettit: 1898–1902 * William J. Youngs: 1902–1915 * Louis R. Bick: 1915 * Melville J. France: 1915–1919 * James D. Bell: 1919 * LeRoy W. Ross: 1919–1921 * Wallace E. J. Collins: 1921 * Ralph C. Greene: 1921–1925 * William A. De Groot: 1925–1929 * Howard W. Ameli: 1929–1934 *

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: 1934 – Dec. 25, 1937 (died in office) * Harold St. Leo O'Dougherty (interim): sworn in on December 27, 1937 * Michael F. Walsh: 1938–1939 (resigned, appointed

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) * Vine H. Smith (interim): 1939 * Harold Maurice Kennedy: 1939–1944 (resigned, appointed judge of this Court]) * T. Vincent Quinn (interim): 1944–1945 * Miles F. McDonald: 1945 (resigned, elected

Kings County District Attorney The Kings County District Attorney's Office, also known as the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, is the district attorney's office for Kings County, coterminous with the Borough of Brooklyn, in New York City. The office is responsible for the ...

in November 1945) * T. Vincent Quinn (interim): 1945-46 * J. Vincent Keogh: 1946–1950 * Frank J. Parker: 1950–1953 *

Leonard P. Moore Leonard Page Moore (July 2, 1898 – December 7, 1982) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Early life and career Born in Evanston, Illinois, Moore was in the United States Naval Reser ...

: 1953–1957 * Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr.: 1957–1961 * Elliot Kahaner (interim): 1961 * Joseph P. Hoey: 1961–1969 * Vincent T. McCarthy (interim): 1969 * Edward Raymond Neaher: 1969–1971 * Robert A. Morse: 1971–1973 * Edward J. Boyd (interim): 1973–1974 * David G. Trager: 1974–1978 * Edward R. Korman: 1978–1982 *

Raymond J. Dearie Raymond Joseph Dearie (born June 4, 1944) is an American lawyer who is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a Judge of the United States Foreign Intellig ...

: 1982–1986 *

Reena Raggi Reena Andrea Raggi (born May 11, 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and maintains her chambers in Brooklyn, New York. She was formerly a United Sta ...

(interim): 1986 * Andrew J. Maloney: 1986–1992 *

Mary Jo White Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District o ...

(interim): 1992–1993 * Zachary W. Carter: 1993–1999 *

Loretta Lynch Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the Un ...

: 1999–2001 *Alan Vinegrad (interim): 2001–2002 * Roslynn R. Mauskopf: September 3, 2002 – October 18, 2007 * Benton J. Campbell (interim): 2007–2010 *Loretta Lynch: April 22, 2010 – 2015 * Kelly Currie (interim): 2015 * Robert L. Capers: 2015–2017 * Bridget Rohde (acting): 2017–2018 *

Richard Donoghue Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the acting United States Deputy Attorney General, United States deputy attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously, he served as the principal Associate Dep ...

: 2018–2020 *

Seth DuCharme Seth D. DuCharme is an American attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. DuCharme was appointed by Attorney General William Barr and sworn in on July 10, 2020, succeeding Richard Donoghue, who ...

(acting): 2020–2021 *

Mark Lesko Mark J. Lesko (born February 4, 1967) is an American politician and attorney who served as the acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at the United States Justice Department. Prior to that, from January 20, 2021, he ...

(acting): Jan–Jun 2021 * Jacquelyn M. Kasulis (acting): Jun 2021–Oct 2021 * Breon Peace: Oct 2021–present

References

External links

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Official Website {{Current prosecutors of New York City, state=autocollapse Prosecution # 1865 establishments in New York (state)