Andrew A. Weissmann is a longtime federal prosecutor who later became a cable legal analyst. This page is identity only: who he is on official paper. The episodes live in the posts. This is not the biography he would write.
Identity
About Andrew Weissmann
Titles and dates come from DOJ and NYU. Emphasis is the compiler’s.
Documented roles
- Training. Princeton (magna cum laude); Fulbright, University of Geneva; J.D., Columbia Law Review; clerk for Hon. Eugene H. Nickerson, E.D.N.Y.; associate, Cleary Gottlieb. DOJ, January 9, 2015.
- 1991–c. 2002. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York (not SDNY); later Chief of the Criminal Division. Same DOJ release; NYU faculty biography.
- 2002–2005. Deputy, then Director, Enron Task Force. Named Director March 1, 2004; stepped down July 18, 2005. Lead counsel on the Arthur Andersen trial. DOJ 2004; DOJ 2005.
- 2005–2013. Special counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller; later partner, Jenner & Block; FBI General Counsel, 2011–2013. DOJ 2015; NYU.
- 2015–2019. Chief, DOJ Criminal Division Fraud Section (selected January 9, 2015). NYU lists Special Counsel’s Office lead prosecutor, 2017–19, overlapping that title.
- After the office. Author of Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation (2020). NYU lists him as Professor of Practice, co-host of Main Justice, and a legal analyst for “MS NOW.”
What this site is not
It is not a finding that Weissmann committed a crime. It is not a White House product. Campaign donation figures that appear in secondary coverage are not restated here without an FEC.gov record. Family details and home addresses are omitted on purpose — including addresses that appear on civil-complaint captions.
Read the posts.