Uzo Asonye
Uzodinma Asonye is an American attorney. He is the Deputy Chief of the Financial Crimes and Public Corruption office at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Asonye attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, and graduated in 1998. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He then went to work for the law firm O'Melveny & Myers, before joining the United States Attorney's office as deputy chief in the financial crimes and public corruption unit.[1][2] Robert Mueller brought Asonye onto the Special Counsel investigation team.[3] Asonye was the lead attorney of Paul Manafort's Virginia criminal trial.[4]
References
- ^ "Homewood-Flossmoor grad leading prosecution in Manafort trial one of many high achieving alumni - Daily Southtown". Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^ Betsy Woodruff. "Inside Mueller's New Army". Thedailybeast.com. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^ Fisher, Marc. "Manafort on trial: A scorched-earth prosecutor and not a mention of Trump". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^ ByLynn Sweet @lynnsweet (August 1, 2018). "Paul Manafort's prosecutor Uzo Asonye: Grew up in suburban Chicago". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
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