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Trenton,
NJ – Attorney General Anne Milgram
today named Deborah Gramiccioni as director
of the Division of Criminal Justice. Gramiccioni,
who stepped into the position last month
on an acting basis, has been the special
assistant to the attorney general on criminal
matters since September 2007.
“As a member of my senior staff, Deb
worked closely with the attorneys and investigators
in the Division of Criminal Justice. She
has quickly demonstrated that she has the
ability, energy, professionalism, and prosecutorial
experience to head the division,’’
Milgram said.
Gramiccioni said, “I am honored by
the trust Attorney General Milgram has placed
in me to lead the division. I promise that
the division will remain focused on rooting
out corruption and protecting the people
of New Jersey from street gangs trafficking
in guns and violence."
Gramiccioni 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.
She
joined the United States Attorney's Office
in Newark 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.
Gramiccioni succeeds Gregory Paw, who left
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.
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