Mary Jo White, President Obama's nominee to lead the SEC, has a been involved with a plethora of high-profile legal cases.
She's locked up infamous terrorists, prosecuted and defended white-collar criminals, and run politically-sensitive investigations.
We've delved into her legal history to present the ten highest-profile cases that Mary Jo White has ever been involved with, both as a prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney.
A caveat: White didn't actually 'litigate' many of these cases. As her former colleague Patrick Cotter notes, "U.S. Attorneys are the Generals of the army; they’re not the combat soldiers."
But by all accounts, White has an incredibly keen and strategic legal mind, and was quite hands-on in cases that she oversaw – one of the reasons she was the President's top choice to run the SEC.
In 1992, she prosecuted John Gotti, the legendary crime boss.
When announcing her nomination, President Obama quipped, “In the early 1990s she brought down John Gotti as head of the Gambino crime syndicate. You don’t want to mess with Mary Jo.”
Source: MarketWatch
She was hired by the NFL to investigate allegations of 'bounty hunting' by the New Orleans Saints.
Discussing the investigation with reporters, she said, “This is not something based on what somebody else said to them. It is an unusually strong record on which the commissioner acted.”
Source: Washington Post
The 1998 indictment of Osama Bin Laden.
The November 5, 1998 edition of the New York Times reads:
"A federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday returned a 238-count indictment charging Saudi exile Osama bin Laden with conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa and with committing acts of terrorism against Americans abroad."
Source: Via Sun-Sentinel
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