Neil MacBride

Neil H. MacBride
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Charles P. Rosenberg
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Alma mater	Houghton College (B.A.) University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.)

Neil H. MacBride is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.^[1] The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed MacBride's nomination on Sept. 15, 2009, and he took office three days later. Prior to his appointment by President Barack Obama,^[2] MacBride served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.^[3]

MacBride formerly served as Vice President, Anti-Piracy and General Counsel, of the Business Software Alliance,^[4] where he oversaw global anti-piracy enforcement and copyright policy. Prior to that, he served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2001-2005. From 1996-2001, MacBride was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.^[5] Before his stint in public service, MacBride practice law with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered. He also served as a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr. in the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Houghton College (N.Y.), where he received in B.A. in History and the Humanities, and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a Barrister with the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center on Law & Security at New York University.

Under MacBride's tenure, his office prosecuted 48 year old Charlie Engle for allegedly stating a false income on his mortgage application. During the investigation prosecutors used an undercover female agent to seduce Mr. Engle and extract evidence. Mr. Engle was sentenced to almost two years in prison for defaulting on his loan. Meanwhile, the CEO of Countrywide Mortgage Company walks free.^[6]. On June 17, 2011, the Washington Times quoted MacBride making the statement: “Marijuana is an addictive, dangerous gateway drug that often leads users to graduate to other deadly narcotics” ^[7] when it is known that Marijuana is not physically addictive, has never killed anyone via overdose^[8], and has not been proven to be a gateway drug by any established, peer-reviewed scientific research.^[9]

References

1. ^ http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1819613
2. ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10148807-38.html
3. ^ http://www.justice.gov/usao/vae/usattorney.html
4. ^ http://www.justice.gov/usao/vae/usattorney.html
5. ^ http://www.justice.gov/usao/vae/usattorney.html
6. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/26nocera.html?src=me&ref=business
7. ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/17/feds-take-down-national-drug-ring-operating-va/
8. ^ http://www.wearecrohns.org/jamielyn/articles/2131
9. ^ http://www.drugscience.org/sfu/sfu_gateway.html

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