Andrew Weissmann

Andrew A. Weissmann (born March 17, 1958) is an American attorney and professor. He was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1991 to 2002, where he prosecuted high-profile organized crime cases. He served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller's Special Counsel's Office (2017–2019), as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015–2017) and is currently a professor at NYU Law School. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Weissmann to be the deputy director and then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Enron Task Force. Weissman also served as the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2011 to 2013. Starting in 2015, he became the chief of the Criminal Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017, he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. To assume that position, Weissmann took a leave from his Department of Justice post. The special counsel's investigation concluded in 2019 and Weissmann went into the private sector. Early life and education Weissman grew up in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He subsequently attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1980. Following a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Geneva, he received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School (1984). He then clerked for Judge Eugene Nickerson in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He is of Jewish descent.