TRENTON,
N.J – Attorney General Zulima V.
Farber today announced the appointment
of Anne
Milgram as First Assistant Attorney
General and Gregory
Paw as the new Director of the Division
of Criminal Justice.
As
first assistant, Milgram, 35, will be
the number two person in the Department
of Law and Public Safety, serving as Attorney
General Farber’s top deputy and
helping to coordinate policies, operations
and investigations in the 9,600-person
department. The first assistant oversees
the ten divisions within the Department
of Law and Public Safety, including the
Divisions of Criminal Justice, Law, State
Police, Consumer Affairs, Elections, and
Civil Rights.
Paw,
42, is the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He was also deputy chief counsel of the
regime crimes liaison office in Baghdad,
which counseled the new Iraqi government
in preparing the war crime cases against
Saddam Hussein. He will head the division
that is responsible for enforcement of
the state’s criminal laws and is
the main link between the department and
New Jersey’s law enforcement community.
“Anne
Milgram and Gregory Paw are extremely
talented lawyers who will help move the
Department of Law and Public Safety forward
in its mission to protect New Jersey’s
citizens and fight against crime and corruption,’’
Attorney General Farber said. “Anne
Milgram’s management skills and
experience in investigating and prosecuting
complex cases will set us on a strong
course. Gregory Paw’s extensive
background in criminal matters and public
corruption cases will bring great energy
and leadership to the Division of Criminal
Justice.’’
Milgram
was the lead federal prosecutor in the
nation for human trafficking crimes and
was an assistant district attorney under
Robert Morgenthau in Manhattan. She was
in the criminal section of the Justice
Department’s Civil Rights Division,
where she prosecuted hate crimes, official
misconduct, and human trafficking cases
throughout the nation. She joined the
division as a trial attorney in January
2001. She was special litigation counsel
for human trafficking from September 2004
to May 2005. In that role, she prosecuted
sex trafficking and forced labor cases.
She also supervised attorneys and advised
local, state and federal prosecutors and
law enforcement agents. She was awarded
the Department of Justice Special Commendation
for Outstanding Service in December 2004.
Milgram
left the Justice Department in 2005 to
serve as counsel to Gov. Jon S. Corzine
during his last year in the United States
Senate.
Milgram, who grew up in East Brunswick,
was graduated from Rutgers College in
1992, and received a master of philosophy
in social and political theory in 1993
from the University of Cambridge. She
received her law degree from New York
University in 1996 and clerked for U.S.
District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson
in Trenton from August 1996 to August
1997.
Paw, who grew up in Randolph and now lives
in Shamong in Burlington County with his
wife and two young children, has been
a federal prosecutor for more than ten
years. He has prosecuted numerous political
corruption cases, and also served for
eleven months from May 2004 through March
2005 with a team of lawyers sent to Iraq
by the Justice Department to help prepare
the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the prosecution
of Saddam Hussein and other high-ranking
members of the former Iraqi regime. In
Iraq, he supervised a team of American
lawyers and investigators. He received
a special commendation from the U.S. Attorney
General for his work.
As a federal prosecutor, he led the case
against the former majority leader of
the Pennsylvania State Senate, who was
accused of concealing a business relationship
with a firm while sponsoring legislation
to help the business. In 2005, Paw was
named the deputy United States Attorney.
He also served as the chief of his office’s
narcotics section, and supervised a wide
variety of cases.
Paw
was graduated from the University of Illinois
in 1985 and received his law degree from
the College of William and Mary in 1988.
He clerked for U.S. District Court Judge
Walter E. Hoffman in Norfolk, Virginia
before joining the Washington, D.C. law
firm of Baker and Hostetler in 1989. He
joined the criminal division of the Justice
Department in 1995 and one year later
moved to the U.S. Attorney’s office
in Alexandria, Virginia, handling cases
involving money laundering, narcotics,
and espionage.
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