Craig S. Morford

Craig S. Morford ( born September 10, 1959) is an American jurist who was temporarily acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General.

Life

After schooling Morford first studied economics at Hope College and graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Valparaiso University, he finished in 1984 with a Juris Doctor ( JD).

After he was then nearly twenty years as a lawyer, he moved in 2003 to the U.S. Department of Justice and was first Special Advisor to Attorney General John Ashcroft. He then took over between 2004 and 2005 provisionally the office of U.S. Attorney for Detroit before he then worked as first deputy U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

During this time, he also led the team that successfully represented indictment of James Traficant, an expelled member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio and against the 2001 investigation for extortion, bribery, obstruction of justice and tax evasion were taken. In addition, he wrote the eponymous Morford report about the so-called Detroit Sleeper Cell, a group of people living in Detroit men, where a stop at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California was accused.

When it came to several dismissals of U.S. Attorneys in December 2006, he took over as acting turn, the Office of the U.S. Attorney of Middle Tennessee. Following the resignation of Paul McNulty, he was in May 2007 as Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General finally Acting Assistant Attorney General of the United States.

Upon completion of this activity, he joined in March 2008 in the private sector has since been chief legal adviser and chief representative for compliance with codes of conduct of the pharmaceutical company Cardinal Health.