Valerie E. Caproni

Valerie E. Caproni(born 1955) is an American lawyer who now serves as the FBI's general counsel.cite news
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title=Elusive Starting Point on Harsh Interrogations
publisher=New York Times
author=Scott Shane
date=June 11, 2008
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Caproni played a leading role in limiting the involvement of FBI officials in interrogations of Guantanamo captives when interrogators from other agencies used "enhanced interrogation techniques".cite web
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title=Initial Set of Documents Received from DIA/DOS/FBI
date=October 15 2004
publisher=American Civil Liberties Union
accessdate=2007-04-27]

Caproni grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and attended Hardaway High School, graduating in the class of 1973. As a teenaged girl, she also attended the Georgia Governor's Honors Program, a program for gifted children.

Caproni graduated magna cum laude from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1976 with a B.A. in psychology. She earned her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia in 1979. While in law school, she served on the "Georgia Law Review", was the winner of the Russell and Talmadge Moot Court competitions and was inducted into Order of the Coif.

Following graduation, Ms. Caproni clerked for the Hon. Phyllis Kravitch, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. In September 1980, she began work as an associate in the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.

In 1985, Ms. Caproni became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York. In early 1989, she became General Counsel of the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC). In that capacity, she supervised a legal staff of approximately 20 and was involved in many major economic development projects in New York, including the Times Square Redevelopment Project.

Ms. Caproni returned to the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1992 after approximately three years away. She was Chief of Special Prosecutions and Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section before becoming Chief of the Criminal Division in 1994. As Chief of the Criminal Division, she supervised approximately 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys until she departed in 1998, to become the Regional Director of the Pacific Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)based in San Francisco.

At the SEC, Ms. Caproni oversaw the enforcement and regulatory programs of the SEC in the nine far western states, managing a staff of approximately 250 lawyers, accountants and examiners located in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. While at the SEC, Ms. Caproni increased dramatically the cooperation between the SEC and federal prosecutors in order to maximize the impact of enforcement actions. In 2001, Ms. Caproni returned to New York as Counsel at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, specializing in white collar criminal defense and SEC enforcement actions.

In August 2003, FBI Director Robert F. Mueller named her General Counsel of the FBI. [FBI executive biography, www.fbi.gov, retrieved July 11, 2008.]

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External Links

Executive FBI Biography [http://www.fbi.gov/libref/executives/caproni.htm]