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Valerie
E. Caproni – General Counsel, Office of the General
Counsel
Valerie
E. Caproni graduated magna cum laude from
Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1976 with
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She obtained
her law degree summa cum laude from the University
of Georgia in 1979. While in law school, she served
on the Georgia Law Review, was the winner of the
Russell and Talmadge Moot Court competitions and
was inducted into Order of the Coif.
Following
graduation, Ms. Caproni clerked for the Hon. Phyllis
Kravitch, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh
Circuit. In September 1980, she began work as an associate
in the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
in New York City.
In
1985, Ms. Caproni left Cravath to become an Assistant
U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United
States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York.
In early 1989, she left the U.S. Attorney's Office
to become General Counsel of the New York State Urban
Development Corporation (UDC). At UDC, Ms. Caproni
supervised a legal staff of approximately 20 and was
involved in many major economic development projects
in New York, including the Times Square Redevelopment
Project.
After
approximately three years at UDC, Ms. Caproni returned
to the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1992. She served as
Chief of Special Prosecutions and Chief of the Organized
Crime and Racketeering Section before becoming Chief
of the Criminal Division in 1994. As Chief of the Criminal
Division she supervised approximately 100 Assistant
U.S. Attorneys. Ms. Caproni remained Chief of the Criminal
Division until she departed in 1998 to become the Regional
Director of the Pacific Regional Office of the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC).
At
the SEC, Ms. Caproni oversaw the enforcement and regulatory
programs of the SEC in the nine far western states,
managing a staff of approximately 250 lawyers, accountants
and examiners located in Los Angeles and San Francisco,
California. While at the SEC, Ms. Caproni increased
dramatically the cooperation between the SEC and federal
prosecutors in order to maximize the impact of enforcement
actions. In 2001, Ms. Caproni returned to New York
as Counsel at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett,
specializing in white collar criminal defense and SEC
enforcement actions.
In
August 2003, Director Mueller named Ms. Caproni as
General Counsel of the FBI's Office of the General
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