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Trenton, NJ – Attorney General Anne Milgram today named Deborah Gramiccioni as acting director of the Division of Criminal Justice, succeeding Gregory Paw, who is leaving the division for private law practice.
Gramiccioni has been the special assistant to the attorney general on criminal matters since September 2007. She was chief of the Commercial Crimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and later an assistant chief in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice before joining the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
“Deb has been a valuable member of my senior staff and in that capacity has worked closely with the attorneys and investigators in the Division of Criminal Justice,’’ Milgram said. “She possesses the leadership skills, professionalism, and prosecutorial experience to lead DCJ.’’
Gramiccioni said, “I am honored by the trust Attorney General Milgram has placed in me to lead the Division of Criminal Justice and build upon Greg Paw’s strong record in the last two-and-a-half years. I can promise that the division will remain focused on rooting out public corruption and combating street gangs trafficking in guns and violence.”
Gramiccioni joined the United States Attorney's Office in September 1999 as an Assistant United States Attorney. She prosecuted cases in the general Criminal Division and the Special Prosecutions division. In September 2004, she became Chief of the Commercial Crimes Unit, supervising the prosecution of white collar crimes involving financial fraud, identity theft and intellectual property.
In November 2005, she became Assistant Chief, Fraud Section, at the criminal division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for all cases brought nationwide under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
From January to September 2007, Gramiccioni was the Vice President of Trace International, an international non-profit company based in Annapolis that specialized in anti-bribery training and due diligence reviews for multinational companies and their commercial intermediaries.
Gramiccioni, 36, grew up in Livingston and earned her B.A. magna cum laude in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in American history and was the captain of the women’s varsity soccer team. She graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1997. After graduation, she worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps in New York for one year until beginning her clerkship with Judge Alfred J. Lechner, Jr., United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey. She lives in Monmouth County with her husband Christopher and son, Noah.
Paw is leaving the Division of Criminal Justice to join Pepper Hamilton as a partner, handling white collar criminal cases in the firm's Princeton and Philadelphia offices. Under Paw’s supervision, the Division reorganized and focused its mission on targeting corruption and violent gangs.
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