United States Attorney Michael L. Levy
Michael L. Levy is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The United States Attorney supervises the prosecution of all criminal cases brought by the United States, and all civil actions brought on behalf of, and against, the United States. Mr. Levy has served in the Department of Justice since January 1980, with two one-year excursions into private practice. He has prosecuted commercial fraud, health care fraud, drug, tax, and organized crime cases. He has also handled civil and criminal forfeiture actions. From 1991 to 1993, he was the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. From 1993 until 2001, he was the First Assistant United States Attorney. In April 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed him to serve as interim United States Attorney – a position that he held until September 2001 when a new presidentially appointed United States Attorney took office. From September 2001 until May 2009, Mr. Levy was the Chief of Computer Crimes, supervising and prosecuting cases involving computer intrusions and on-line child sexual exploitation. In May 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to serve, again, as interim United States Attorney.
Before joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Levy worked as a Public Defender and Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and as an attorney in private practice.
He has taught trial advocacy at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and a seminar in cybercrime at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in mathematics from Brown University in 1966, and Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969.
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