Michael R. Bromwich
Michael R. Bromwich (born December 19, 1953) is a litigation attorney who was designated by Barack Obama on June 15, 2010, to be first director of the newly created Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement which succeeds the Minerals Management Service.[1] in the wake of scandals associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Obama in making the announcement said, “For a decade or more, the cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency was allowed to go unchecked. That allowed drilling permits to be issued in exchange not for safety plans, but assurances of safety from oil companies. That cannot and will not happen anymore.”
Bromwich, a Fried Frank attorney has a history over overseeing troubled federal agencies.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1976. He simultaneously received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1980.[1]
He was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and as Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel for Iran-Contra. Bromwich was one of three courtroom lawyers for the government in the case of United States v. Oliver L. North.[1]
He was an Inspector General for the for the Department of Justice from 1994 - 1999. where he headed an investigation into the FBI Laboratory (which affected the Investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; the FBI's conduct and activities regarding the Aldrich Ames matter; the handling of classified information by the FBI and the Department of Justice in the campaign finance investigation; the alleged deception of a Congressional delegation by high-ranking officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and the Justice Department's role in the CIA crack cocaine controversy.[1][2]
In 1999 he joined Fried Frank.[2]
In 2002 he was Independent Monitor for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.[1]
In 2008 he was named by the Houston Police Department to investigate its crime lab.[1]
He joined the New York City office of Fried Frank where he he headed the firm's Internal Investigations, Compliance and Monitoring practice group .[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "President Obama Announces Bromwich to Fix Oil Industry Oversight | The White House". Whitehouse.gov. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-bromwich-fix-oil-industry-oversight. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Fried Frank > Bromwich, Michael R". Ffhsj.com. http://www.ffhsj.com/index.cfm?pageID=42&itemID=163&more=1. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
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