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American lawyer

For other people named Patrick Fitzgerald, see Patrick Fitzgerald (disambiguation).

Patrick J.

Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and former partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.^[1]

For more than a decade, until June 30, 2012, Fitzgerald was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.^[2] Prior to his appointment, he served as Assistant U.S.

Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1988 to 2001,^[3] and as Chief of the Organized Crime-Terrorism Unit since December 1995, where he participated in the prosecutions of Osama bin Laden, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and Ramzi Yousef.

As special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, Fitzgerald was the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the Valerie Plame Affair, which led to the prosecution and conviction in 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney's c