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			Ricardo Solano Jr. First Assistant Attorney General

	Ricardo Solano Jr. was appointed First Assistant Attorney General by Attorney General Anne Milgram on October 6, 2008. Solano joined the Department of Law and Public Safety from the Gibbons law firm in Newark, where he concentrated on white-collar criminal, complex civil, and appellate law. Prior to joining Gibbons, Solano served for more than five years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark, working in the appeals division, the terrorism unit of the criminal division, and the special prosecutions division.

	Solano grew up in Paterson and attended New York University, graduating in May 1995 with a BA in philosophy and political science. In May 1998, he received his law degree summa cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Seton Hall Law Review. He clerked for former New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Poritz from September 1998 to August 1999 and clerked for U.S. District Circuit Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry from September 1999 to August 2000. He was an associate at the Gibbons law firm for a year before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark in August 2001.

	During his career as a federal prosecutor, he argued appeals before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, prosecuted one of the first cases under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act (U.S. v. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty), and prosecuted mail and wire fraud cases, bribery offenses, and tax evasion. He prosecuted the bribery and tax evasion case against former State Sen. John Lynch in 2006 and also prosecuted Raymond O’Grady, the former Middletown mayor and director of the Monmouth County Motor Pool, on bribery charges.

	Solano has been an adjunct professor at Seton Hall, teaching a seminar on criminal sentencing. He is a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey and he has been a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Group on the Use of Less Lethal Ammunition.

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