His team initially won a conviction against the former Gov. Smith’s more notable corruption cases against high-profile political figures had opposite results. Smith served from 2010 to 2015 as chief of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, which investigates politicians and other public figures on corruption allegations. In that role, he oversaw high-profile inquiries of foreign government officials and militia members wanted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Smith worked as the investigation coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. There, he served in a number of supervisory positions, according to his Justice Department biography, and worked on an assortment of cases, many involving public corruption.įrom 2008 to 2010, Mr. Smith got his start in the 1990s as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office and soon moved to a similar job at the United States Attorney’s office in Brooklyn.
Trump with a wealth of experience: He has been prosecuting criminal cases for nearly three decades. Jack Smith, the Justice Department’s newly appointed special counsel, will come to the task of investigating former President Donald J.
