NEW: Meet Matt Graves, the Biden administration's pick to oversee hundreds of US Capitol attack cases - by @cryanbarber ($) @thisisinsider businessinsider.com/us-attorney-ma…
Insider first reported on June 23 that Graves would get the nomination. He served for nearly a decade in the DC US attorney's office before departing in '16 for private practice. He once lead 1 of the most prestigious sections of the DC office: the fraud & public corruption unit.
His tenure in the US attorney's office was highlighted by the 2013 prosecution of former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., an Illinois Democrat who pleaded guilty to using campaign funds to cover personal expenses and to purchase lavish items, including elk heads and fur capes.
Graves left the office in 2016 to join the law firm DLA Piper, where his client roster included General Electric and media company Al Jazeera.
Following Biden's election last year, Graves was among several former prosecutors who filed applications with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's office in hopes of being recommended to the White House for the nomination to lead the US attorney's office in DC.
Norton, a Democrat who serves as the District of Columbia's non-voting representative in Congress, told Insider that Graves was "far and away" her first choice among the three candidates she submitted to the Biden White House for consideration.
If confirmed by the US Senate, Graves would replace Channing Phillips, the acting US attorney in DC since March. A veteran prosecutor, Phillips' had twice previously stepped in to lead the US attorney's office in Washington.
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