Joseph E. Digenova is a founding partner of the law firm Digenova & Toensing, LLP, specializing in criminal, civil, and administrative matters before federal courts and congressional committees. He has held various notable positions, including independent counsel in the Clinton passport file matter and U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, overseeing significant criminal cases and investigations. Digenova has published articles and appeared on major television programs, highlighting his expertise in matters of criminal law and congressional oversight.

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JOSEPH E. diGENOVA
Joseph E. diGenova, founding
partner of the Washington, D.C. law
firm of diGenova & Toensing, LLP
represents individuals, corporations
and other entities before the Federal
courts, Congress, and U.S. cabinet
departments and agencies on
criminal, civil, administrative and
investigative matters. In December
1992, he was appointed Independent
Counsel in the Clinton Passport File
Search matter. He was appointed
Chairman of the Grievance
Committee of the D.C. District Court
in 1995 by the judges of that
court. In 1997, he was named
Special Counsel by the U.S. House of Representatives to probe the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As a result of that
assignment, he was appointed by the U.S. District Court, Southern
District of New York, to sit on the Independent Review Board, which
oversees the Teamsters pursuant to a 1989 Consent Decree. He is
on that Board with former FBI and CIA Director William Webster and
former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti. In 2007, Mr.
diGenova was retained by the New York State Senate to investigate
then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the Troopergate matter.
His practice emphasizes representation to resolve disputes with
various branches of the Federal government through negotiation,
litigation, and/or legislation. He does white collar criminal defense
work for individuals (such as the former CEO of BCCI) and
corporations, conducting internal investigations as well. He
represents individuals and organizations in Congressional
investigations.

2. For four years, diGenova was United States Attorney, District of
Columbia, which is the largest such office, having more than 400
attorneys. He supervised complex Federal criminal and civil matters
including international drug smuggling, public corruption, espionage,
insider trading, tax fraud, extradition, fraud, RICO, export control and
international terrorism. Many of these prosecutions involved
negotiations with foreign governments. He conducted a wide-ranging
probe of corruption in the D.C. government, which led to the
conviction of two deputy mayors. He led the prosecution of Israeli
spy Jonathan Pollard. He was the Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney
during the prosecution of attempted Presidential assassin, John W.
Hinckley.
DiGenova has extensive experience on Capitol Hill. He was Chief
Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee and
Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select
Intelligence Committees. He has conducted confirmation,
investigative, legislative and oversight hearings, drafted legislation
and testified before both Houses of Congress. He also served as
Administrative Assistant and Legislative Director to U.S. Senator
Charles Mathias.
Mr. diGenova has published articles on criminal law, terrorism, and
Congressional oversight and has spoken on those and other issues
to various organizations throughout the United States. As part of his
advocacy approach, he has appeared on Court TV, Lehrer News
Hour, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Nightline, 60 Minutes,
Crossfire, This Week With David Brinkley, John McLaughlin’s One On
One, Today Show, Good Morning America, and other national
television programs. He received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Cincinnati and his law degree from Georgetown
University.
diGenova & Toensing, LLP
Washington, DC