President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche as his deputy attorney general. Blanche represented Trump in several of his legal cases.
He previously worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.
"Todd is an excellent attorney who will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what has been a broken System of Justice for far too long," Trump said in a statement.
Todd Wallace Blanche (born in 1974) is an American lawyer and former prosecutor. Blanche is best known for representing former U.S. president Donald Trump in the 2024 criminal trial in New York.
Blanche worked at Wall Street’s oldest law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, serving as a partner at the firm for nearly six years—and represented clients such as Rudy Guiliani associate Igor Fruman and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
On November 14, 2024, President-elect Trump announced that he intends to nominate Todd Blanche for United States deputy attorney general.
Blanche was born in 1974 and grew up near Denver, Colorado. He went to a military boarding school in New Mexico and attended Beloit College. He then transferred to the American University School of Public Affairs, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and interdisciplinary studies.
In 1999, Blanche worked as a paralegal for the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and attended night classes at Brooklyn Law School.
After law school, Blanche was a prosecutor in New York's Southern District and co-chief of its violent crimes unit and the White Plains division. He worked on cases related to bank and wire fraud, public corruption, and racketeering. Blanche was later employed by the law firm WilmerHale. From September 2017 to April 2023, Blanche was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
In 2003, he joined the Office
of the US Attorney, Southern District of New York.
In 2006, he served from Oct.
2006 to Nov. 2014 as Co-Chief, White
Plains Division
In 2011, he served from July
2011 to July 2013 as Co-Chief,
Violent Crimes Unit
In 2013, he joined Wilmer
Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP and served as Counsel from 2014 to 2017.
In 2017, he joined Cadwalader
Wickersham & Taft LLP and served as a Partner from 2017 to 2023.
In 2024, he was Trump’s Chief Counsel to defeat Democrat Law Suits.
Blanche left the firm and founded Blanche Law to represent former U.S. president Donald Trump. He is a defense attorney in the 2024 criminal trial of Donald Trump. Following Trump's May 30, 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Blanche stated Trump's defense team plans to appeal the verdict.
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