Michael Monico

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Michael D. Monico (born December 16, 1947 in Chicago ) is an American lawyer (criminal defense attorney).

life and career

Monico studied law at Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and at Northwestern University with a doctorate (Juris Doctor, JD) in 1973. In the same year he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and served as assistant attorney from 1973 to 1977 Northern District of Illinois. After that he was a criminal defense lawyer. He has a law firm in Chicago with Barry Spevack. He has also been admitted to the Supreme Court since 1981.

The focus of his practice and his law firm is on the criminal law of white collar crime (domestic and international corruption, environmental offenses, antitrust, fraud in government contracts, health care fraud, money laundering, postal and insurance fraud, etc.). He is considered one of the leading criminal defense lawyers in this field in the USA.

He was President of the American Board of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Monico was President of the Seventh Circuit (Indiana, Wyoming, Illinois) Bar Association in 2010 for the division of US appeals courts. He and Spevack wrote a manual on the practice of criminal law in the Seventh Circuit, which was published in 13 editions by 2015. In 2008 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and in 2012 the Joel Flaum Award from the Chicago Inn of Court, of which he was President in 1993 (where he became Master of the Bench in 1987).

His early successes included an acquittal in the process of Operation Greylord, a large-scale FBI investigation into corruption in the Chicago judicial system in the 1980s. Only two of the many lawyers charged were acquitted. His law firm is active nationwide in the USA and internationally. Another of his cases is BP manager Jonathan Sprague (then responsible for the Gulf of Mexico at BP) in the case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill .

Monico (and his partner Barry Spevack) became defense attorneys for Michael Cohen , Donald Trump's former personal attorney , in early 2019 . He was one of the attorneys in attendance at the Cohen hearing before a Congressional committee in February 2019, alongside Lanny Davis , a former legal advisor to President Bill Clinton and a Democratic Party supporter known for aggressive public relations defense. Also in 2019, Monico became the lawyer for Jussie Smollett , who was accused of orchestrating racist attacks against himself.

From 1975 to 1979 he was also a reservist captain in the JAG Corps (Judge Advocate General's Corps).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to prabook
  2. ↑ Firm Profile , 2019. You yourself state your focus with White Collar Defense .
  3. ↑ Monico, Spevack: Federal Criminal Practice: A Seventh Circuit Handbook, New York, LexisNexis 2018
  4. ↑ Matt Naham, Michael Cohen Is Shaking Up His Legal Team as Cooperation with Mueller Intensifies , Law and Crime, January 28, 2019
  5. ^ John Rudolf, BP Oil Spill Criminal Investigation May Ensnare Executives In Cover-Up , Huffington Post, March 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Monico, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monico, Michael D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago