Monaco made a name for herself in the Justice Department as a member of the Enron task force, which prosecuted executives from the energy giant in one of the biggest accounting frauds in U.S. “I worked directly with communities and victims of crime, and I felt the weight of a prosecutor’s responsibility to ensure, not that cases are won, but that justice is done and that each individual defendant’s rights are protected,” she said. Monaco touted her work as an assistant federal prosecutor in her acceptance speech.
7, calling her “a top-flight prosecutor who took on public corruption, corporate fraud, and violent crime.” Monaco was not asked about her involvement in the Steward case during that confirmation hearing, and it has not received media coverage.Ī date has not been set for a hearing for Monaco’s confirmation to the deputy assistant general position.īiden announced Monaco’s nomination on Jan. Monaco’s work on the case has not been previously reported, though she also disclosed it to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2011 when she was nominated to serve as assistant attorney general for national security in the Obama administration. man who was charged following an undercover drug bust. attorneys who prosecuted a case in 2003 against Reginald C. Lisa Monaco, who Biden tapped for the Justice Department position, was one of the assistant U.S. The government dropped charges against the man’s co-defendant as part of a plea deal, court records show. President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as deputy attorney general helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of heroin to an undercover police officer.
Biden came under heavy criticism during the presidential primaries for sponsoring aggressive anti-crime and anti-drug laws while he was in the Senate.Steward and another man were arrested in 2002 on charges that they sold two dime bags of heroin to an undercover cop, court records show. attorney on a case against Patrick Steward. Monaco disclosed in her responses to the Senate that she was an assistant U.S.Lisa Monaco, who has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general, helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of drugs in a drug sting, court records show.
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