Andrew John Ekonomou is an attorney in

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's legal team working under

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. He is a scholar of

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, having received his PhD in the topic from

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in 2000. Ekonomou serves as senior counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice where Sekulow is chief counsel. Ekonomou is a former state prosecutor who occasionally prosecutes cases for a

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's office in southeastern

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, and a former federal prosecutor who at one time served as the acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

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