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As
First Assistant Attorney General, Phillip
H. Kwon serves as a member of the Attorney
General’s executive staff. Prior
to joining the Office of the Attorney
General, Mr. Kwon served for more than
ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
with the U.S. Attorney’s Office
for the District of New Jersey. As part
of the Criminal Division, he focused
on prosecutions involving drugs, gangs,
counterfeiting, white-collar fraud,
and immigration fraud. Mr. Kwon also
served in the Special Prosecutions Division
where he worked specifically on corruption
cases and trials, including those involving
Robert Janiszewski, Nidia Davila-Colon,
William Braker, Zachary Turner. In addition,
he was able to secure convictions of
individuals involved in the sale of
fraudulent birth certificates from the
Hudson County Registrar’s Office.
Mr. Kwon was also a prosecutor on the
trial team that convicted Sharpe James
and Tamika Riley in their federal corruption
case.
In
2005, Mr. Kwon was named as the Chief
of the Violent Crimes Unit where he
supervised the Office’s gang
prosecutors. In 2006, Mr. Kwon was
named as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal
Division where he directly oversaw
the Commercial Crimes Unit, the Terrorism
Unit, and the Violent Crimes Unit.
Mr.
Kwon earned his Bachelor of Arts degree
in 1989 from Georgetown University
in Washington, D.C. where he majored
in history. He graduated from Rutgers
University School of Law School in
Newark, N.J. in 1994. From 1994 to
1997, Mr. Kwon was an associate at
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
in Newark, N.J. From 1997 to 1999,
he was a law clerk to the Honorable
Harold A. Ackerman, a Federal District
Court Judge sitting in Newark, N.J.
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