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Emil Bove

Emil Bove
United States Deputy Attorney General
Acting
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byLisa Monaco (acting)
Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byKevin Chambers (as Associate Deputy)
Personal details
Spouse
Sarah Samis
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(m. 2012)​
Education

Emil Joseph Bove III is an American attorney. He is a former assistant United States Attorney and member of Donald Trump's legal defense team and is the current acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General.

Early life and education

Bove is from Seneca Falls, New York. His father, Emil Bove Jr., is a retired assistant New York attorney general.[1]

Bove graduated from Mynderse Academy as his class salutatorian.[2][3] Bove attended the University at Albany, SUNY. He was captain of the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team. Bove was named the America East Conference Male Scholar Athlete Award for 2002–2003.[4] He graduated in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in public policy and economics summa cum laude.[2][5] Bove attended the Georgetown University School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor in 2008.[2]

After graduating from law school, Bove clerked for Richard J. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2008 and 2009[1] and for Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2010.[6]

Bove worked as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell before becoming an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served as the co-chief of the national security and international narcotics unit.[7][8] While there, he led the unit's prosecutions of Nicolás Maduro, Cesar Sayoc,[9] Tony Hernández,[10] and Fabio Lobo.[11] Bove left the office in 2022 to work in the private sector.[8] He became a partner at Blanche Law, the law firm established by Todd Blanche.[5] Donald Trump added Bove to his defense team in September 2023.[12] Bove and Blanche represented Trump in his election obstruction case,[13] classified documents case,[14] and falsification of business records case.[15]

After winning the 2024 United States presidential election, Trump announced that he would nominate Bove to serve as principal associate deputy attorney general.[16][17]

As Acting Deputy Attorney General

On January 31, 2025, as part of the ongoing purge of civil servants in the second Trump administration, Bove ordered the FBI to fire eight senior executives and compile a list of potentially thousands of other employees involved in investigations stemming from the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[18][19][20] Former prosecutors Joyce Vance and Andrew Weissmann have raised concerns that firing career agents because of their political disloyalty or involvement in January 6 investigations would be illegal.[21][22]

The reaction within the FBI to Bove's order was intensely negative, with current and former agents saying the "purge at the bureau has had a shattering effect on the morale, sending a message that agents who work on cases that anger someone in the Trump administration could be targeted."[21] Acting FBI director Brian Driscoll, who was appointed to that role by the Trump administration, refused to endorse the effort to purge agents and pushed back "so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he would be dismissed."[18][21] Driscoll was lauded in a message widely circulated among FBI personnel.[21] In addition, the agent in charge of the FBI's New York field office circulated an email to staff praising Driscoll and acting deputy director Robert Kissane for "fighting" for the Bureau's employees and said: "[W]e find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy."[23]

Personal life

In 2012, Bove married Sarah Kwai Lin Samis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sarah Samis, Emil Bove III". The New York Times. November 18, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Former Seneca Falls Man Leading President Trump's Legal Team". Finger Lakes Daily News. April 29, 2024. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  3. ^ Staff Report (November 15, 2024). "Trump attorney, Seneca Falls native Emil Bove tapped for top DOJ role". Fingerlakes1.com. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "UAlbany's Emil Bove, '03, wins America East top award". www.albany.edu. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Clark Porter, Susan (September 29, 2023). "Mynderse graduate joins Trump's legal team". Finger Lakes Times. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  6. ^ "UAlbany Magazine - Fall 2010 - University at Albany - SUNY". www.albany.edu.
  7. ^ "Emil Bove | Albany Law School". www.albanylaw.edu. May 10, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  8. ^ a b Adams, David C.; Ernst, Jeff (January 19, 2022). "New York anti-narcotics prosecutor leaves, raising questions about major drug trafficking cases". Univision. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  9. ^ "'We lied': NY prosecutors face heat in botched sanction case". AP News. February 23, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  10. ^ "Honduran president's brother convicted in US drug case". Deutsche Welle. October 19, 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  11. ^ Raymond, Nate (May 16, 2016). "Son of ex-Honduran president pleads guilty to U.S. drug charge". Reuters. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  12. ^ Holmes, Kristen; Murray, Sara; Rabinowitz, Hannah (September 27, 2023). "Trump adds former federal prosecutor to his defense team Trump adds former federal prosecutor to his legal team as he faces multiple indictments". CNN. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  13. ^ Herb, Jeremy; Rabinowitz, Hannah; Lybrand, Holmes; Polantz, Katelyn; Sneed, Tierney (September 5, 2024). "Here's who is representing Trump during his election interference case hearing". CNN. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  14. ^ "Court hears longshot challenge by Trump attorneys to prosecutor's appointment in classified documents case". PBS News. June 21, 2024.
  15. ^ Italiano, Laura; Shamsian, Jacob. "Judge bench-slaps Trump lawyer 5 times on day one of hush-money trial". Business Insider. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  16. ^ Musgrave, Shawn (December 9, 2024). "Trump Justice Department Appointee Oversaw "Systemic" Misconduct in Previous Job". The Intercept. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  17. ^ "Trump picks his lawyer, Todd Blanche, as deputy attorney general". NPR. November 14, 2024. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  18. ^ a b "Justice Department orders FBI purge, review of staff who touched Jan. 6 cases". The Washington Post. January 31, 2025.
  19. ^ "DOJ seeks list of potentially thousands of FBI employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases". ABC News. January 31, 2025.
  20. ^ "Trump DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI agents, others who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump investigations for possible firing". CNN. January 31, 2025.
  21. ^ a b c d "Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings". NBC News. February 1, 2025.
  22. ^ "FBI Firings". Beyond the Headlines with Andrew Weissman. Substack. January 31, 2025. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  23. ^ "Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to 'Dig In' After Removals at Agency". The New York Times. February 2, 2025. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
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