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Michael Mukasey

United States attorney general
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July 28, 1941, New York, New York, U.S. (age 83)

Michael Mukasey (born July 28, 1941, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American lawyer and judge who served as attorney general of the United States (2007–09). Mukasey attended Columbia University (B.A., 1963) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1967). After working in private practice from 1967 to 1972, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York City. Returning to private practice in 1976, he joined the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, where he represented such high-profile clients as lawyer Roy Cohn, socialite Claus von Bülow, the New York Daily News, and The Wall Street Journal. In ...(100 of 486 words)

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