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Early last year, Marc Litt, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, was presented six binders of documents - hundreds of pages each - pertaining to a high-profile investigation. Lawyers wanted to know if Litt would be willing to bring what looked to be a juicy case and they wanted to meet the next...
...people might have just winged it," says Anthony Barkow, who was an assistant U.S. attorney working with Litt at the time. "But by the next day Marc had an encyclopedic knowledge of the case. And although there was a colorable reason to go take the case, he exercised restraint and decided we should not. It was the right decision." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...degrees from Harvard. He spent three years as a legislative aide to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and then got a law degree at Columbia. He was a judicial clerk before becoming an associate at the law firm, Paul Weiss. He joined the U.S Attorney's office in D.C. in 1998. In that office, he handled a bunch of prostitution cases, many of which went to trial. "He is kind of a nerdy guy, so watching him question all of these prostitutes and John Does in court was kind of funny," says a former D.C. colleague...
...Litt, the victims of these sorts of frauds are real people with real families and real retirement savings that don't exist anymore," says Ivan Fisher, a defense attorney in the Vilar case. "For some prosecutors these are just litigations. That's not the case with Litt...
Perrelli, managing partner at the Jenner & Block law firm in Washington, D.C., was picked to be the associate attorney general. He has previously served as deputy assistant attorney general. If confirmed, Perrelli would oversee civil rights among other issues...