Greg Donald Andres is an American attorney, who most notably served as an Assistant Special Counsel for Russian interference in 2016 United States elections under

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. He rejoined the law firm of

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in June 2019.

Career

Andres previously served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 2010 to 2012, an Assistant

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, where he rose to be Chief of the Criminal Division, and a partner at

. While at the Eastern District, Andres prosecuted numerous members of the

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, and was subject to assassination plots by family boss

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. In August 2006, after Basciano had been transferred to Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York in Manhattan, a fellow inmate passed on a hit-list of five individuals authored by Basciano to federal authorities, including Andres, Eastern District Judge

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, and three mafia informants. While serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Andres oversaw criminal fraud prosecutions and foreign bribery investigations under the

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. Among the prosecutions brought by Andres from this office is that of then billionaire and Antiguan knight Sir

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, who was sentenced to 110 years in prison and forced to forfeit billions of dollars in assets in relation to his $8 billion Ponzi scheme. Andres was the 16th attorney hired by the Special Counsel's office when appointed by Mueller in August 2017.

Personal life

Andres is an alumnus of the

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, and the

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. In 2001, Andres married Ronnie Abrams, now a Judge of the

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, while she was an Assistant United States Attorney specializing in violent gangs in the Southern District, and he specialized in organized crime and narcotics in the Eastern District. Their wedding was performed by Judge

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of the Southern District. On July 11, 2017, just prior to the announcement of Andres's appointment in the Special Counsel's office, Abrams recused herself from the prior assigned cases ''

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'' and a companion Emoluments Clause lawsuit against

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; the cases were reassigned to George B. Daniels.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andres, Greg Year of birth missing (living people) Greg Andres Living people University of Chicago Law School alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyers Members of the 2017 Special Counsel investigation team Lawyers from New York City