John Kroger

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John Kroger

John Richington Kroger (* 1966 in Ohio ) is an American lawyer and politician .

Career

John Kroger grew up in Indiana and Texas . Nothing is known about his youth. After joining the United States Marine Corps at age 17 in 1983 , he served in a FORECON unit. In the following period he spent about five months on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific . He also completed jungle training in Panama . While he was at the training camp, the United States invaded Grenada . Shortly afterwards, Kroger volunteered to go to Lebanon , but after the attack on the US base in Beirut , President Ronald Reagan withdrew US troops before Kroger's unit could be sent there.

He left the Marines in 1986. He then enrolled at Yale College , where he studied philosophy and graduated in 1990. After graduation, he moved to Washington, DC , where he became the Legislative Assistant to the then Speaker of the House of Representatives , Tom Foley ( D - WA - 5 ), and US Senator Chuck Schumer (D - NY ).

In 1991 he became Deputy Policy Director for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. After the end of the campaign, he was on the Clinton transition team. He also served for a time as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Treasury of the United States before he went back to school. He graduated in 1996 from Harvard Law School with magna cum laude .

Kroger was a year long then worked as an assistant to a federal appeals judge before joining the office of the federal prosecutor's office in Brooklyn changed (New York). During his years there, he was found guilty of multiple murders against Gregory Scarpa Jr. in a five-week mafia trial . He also handles numerous drug trafficking cases, including a conviction of drug lord Juan "La Puma" Rodriguez for shipping 10 tons of cocaine to the United States annually over a period of more than a decade. Kroger also handled white-collar crime cases. These included cases of government corruption and tax evasion.

In 2000, Kroger had eight weeks blocked for an upcoming drug abuse trial, but when the trial was postponed, Kroger took a three-month vacation. He bought a $ 350  Trek bike and started cycling west across the country, from New York to Oregon . Upon his return to New York, he was determined to prosecute Alphonse Persico , the boss of the Colombo family , for extortion and money laundering. While working on the case, he was involved in rescue and recovery operations following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center . One day after the attacks, he reported to a 24/7 command center in Manhattan where he was helping federal FBI officials identify potential terrorist cells by providing search warrants and subpoenas.

As a result of his trip to Oregon as well as his experience after 9/11, he came to the conclusion that he needed a break from his work as a prosecutor. So he started teaching law . He also took a liking to Oregon. As a prosecutor, he received the Director's Award from then US Attorney General Janet Reno . At the time he left the prosecution, he had a 97% conviction rate.

When law professor Bill Williamson stepped down from his post at Lewis & Clark Law School for health reasons in 2002 , the college began looking for a new professor of criminal law. Kroger got the job and then moved to Portland, Oregon, where he still lives today.

There he taught criminal law in college for just one semester before being offered the opportunity to join the Enron Task Force at the United States Department of Justice to investigate the largest corporate bankruptcy in United States history at the time. For just over a year he led the investigation into Enron's broadband business - whose reported earnings from a future video-on-demand service called Project Braveheart contributed to the company's inflated share price.

Eventually, Kroger and his team brought charges against seven men, including Ken Rice and Kevin Hannon, Enron's two broadband executives. Found guilty in 2004, they became key witnesses in helping convict Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling of the fraud.

After completing his research on Enron, he returned to his tenure as a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School.

Attorney General

On September 20, 2007, John Kroger announced his candidacy for the post of Attorney General of Oregon. Kroger was endorsed by former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber , the Sierra Club, the Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership, and the Carpenters Union. In the Democratic primary elections on May 20, 2008, he defeated former MP Greg Macpherson and also emerged as the Write-In winner in the Republican primary. According to Oregon law, he was forced to choose a party to run for and he chose the Democrats. No Republican ran in the elections. Kroger won the elections in November 2008. He took his oath of office on January 5, 2009, becoming the 16th Attorney General of Oregon.

In October 2001, Kroger announced that he did not intend to seek another term, which he justified with an unspecified illness. In April 2012, he announced his resignation to become President of Reed College . He officially resigned from his post on June 29, 2012.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bunster, Mark: John Kroger Interview, (blog), Candidate Interview , Loaded Orygun, February 11, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Shadowsky, Dan: Kroger v. Crime, Lewis & Clark College Chronicle, Winter 2007
  3. ^ Wright, Phil: Kroger seeks state's highest law office, East Oregonian, September 9, 2007
  4. ^ AG-Elect to Speak at WUCL, News, Willamette University College of Law, December 23, 2008
  5. ↑ Kitzhaber Endorses Kroger , BlueOregon, November 14, 2007
  6. ^ Rizo, Chris: Kroger wins Democratic, Republican AG nominations , LegalNews.com, June 21, 2008
  7. ^ Keisling, Phil: Reviving Oregon elections, The Oregonian, Apr. 13, 2008
  8. ^ Keisling, Phil: Reviving Oregon elections , The Oregonian, Apr. 13, 2008
  9. ^ Walsh, Edward: Democrats sweep to capture statewide jobs , The Oregonian, Nov. 5, 2008
  10. ↑ Gustafson, Alan: Kroger won't run for re-election; cites medical condition, Statesman Journal, Oct. 18, 2011
  11. ^ Reed College Selects Oregon Attorney General John Kroger as New President , Red College
  12. ↑ Cole, Michelle: Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber named Ellen Rosenblum as interim attorney general , The Oregonian, June 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kroger, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroger, John Richington (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohio