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Chief of the Criminal Division

THOMAS R. PERRICONE

Thomas Perricone has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1994. Mr. Perricone has been the Chief of the Criminal Division since February 2024. From May 2022 through January 2024, he was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, overseeing the Violent Crime, Narcotics and Organized Crime, and National Security and Cyber Crime teams. He was Chief of the National Security and Cyber Crime from 2018 through May of 2022, and previously served as EDPA’s Chief of Narcotics and Organized Crime from 2005 to 2018.

Mr. Perricone has been a prosecutor for over 40 years. He joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 1983. At the District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Perricone prosecuted hundreds of cases, including dozens of jury trials in his years in the Homicide Unit and in the Major Trials Unit.

For the past nineteen years, Mr. Perricone has also been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching Trial Advocacy and coaching Penn’s Trial Team. Mr. Perricone has also been an instructor at the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center, at the National College of District Attorneys, and at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Mr. Perricone graduated with honors from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  

Updated February 5, 2024