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			Gregory Paw Director

Gregory Paw, 43, began serving as the director of the Division of Criminal Justice on February 21, 2006. Paw will oversee enforcement of the state’s criminal laws and is the main link between the department and New Jersey’s law enforcement community.

Paw served as the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was also deputy chief counsel of the regime crimes liaison office in Baghdad, which advised the new Iraqi government in preparing war crimes cases against deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Paw was a federal prosecutor for more than ten years, beginning in the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. in 1995 and moving to Philadelphia 1997. He prosecuted narcotics cases and political corruption cases, including the prosecution of the Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate who hid payments from a business while sponsoring legislation to benefit that business. He also prosecuted a Philadelphia police officer who warned a large drug group of pending police raids, and he prosecuted a probation officer who extorted bribes from probationers. In 2003, he was named by American Lawyer magazine as one of eleven rising starts among federal prosecutors nationwide. In 2005, he was named deputy U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the number three post in the office.

Paw served for eleven months, from May 2004 through March 2005, with a team of lawyers sent to Iraq by the Justice Department to help prepare the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the prosecution of Saddam Hussein and other high-ranking members of the former Iraqi regime. He supervised a team of American lawyers and investigators reviewing evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes spanning a 35-year period, and oversaw a $75 million budget. For his work, Paw received the U.S. Attorney General’s Special Commendation Award.

Paw graduated from the University of Illinois in 1985 with a degree in journalism. He received his law degree from the College of William and Mary in 1988. He clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Walter E. Hoffman in Alexandria, Virginia before joining the Washington, D.C. law firm of Baker and Hostetler in 1989. He joined the criminal division of the Justice Department in 1995.


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