Lisa Monaco
Deputy Attorney General
Lisa Oudens Monaco was born in February 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. She worked as an intern in the White House Counsel office during President Clinton’s administration. While in law school, she also interned at the D.C. Supreme Court and for the U.S. Department of Justice. Following law school, she clerked at the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
She spent six years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia. Later she worked for FBI Director Robert Mueller, becoming his chief of staff. Monaco was appointed Associate Deputy Attorney General, focusing on national security issues. She later served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
During President Obama’s second term, she was his assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. She later became a statutory member of the U.S. Homeland Security Council. In 2017, Monaco joined CNN as a political analyst and was a member of an international law firm.
President Joe Biden nominated her to serve as Deputy Attorney General. The Senate confirmed her, and she assumed her position in April 2021.
In the News…
The Justice Department announced that 14 North Korean nationals have been charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. They were also indicted for identity theft, wire fraud, and money laundering. They generated at least $88 million back to North Korea from April 2017 through March 2023 after getting IT jobs in U.S. companies, sending the money back to their home country in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, “To prop up its brutal regime, the North Korean government directs IT workers to gain employment through fraud, steal sensitive information from U.S. companies, and siphon money back to the DPRK.”
The deputy attorney general added, “This indictment of 14 North Korean nationals exposes their alleged sanctions evasion and should serve as a warning to companies around the globe — be on alert for this malicious activity by the DPRK regime.”
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The Honorable Lisa Monaco
Deputy Attorney General
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20530
