Jamie Gorelick Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. He was born on May 6, 1950, in New York City, and graduated from Harvard Law School. She began working at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in July 2003 and has been a partner since then. 

After the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in 2010, Gorelick sat on British Petroleum’s Advisory Council, where he was the company’s senior legal counsel. She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which was tasked with investigating the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. 

She also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae, which was founded in response to the September 11th attacks. The results of an internal audit revealed that Fannie Mae had engaged in illegal accounting practises, which was cited as the cause for her departure. Her “Wall Memo,” written when she was working for the United States Department of Justice, forbade open discussions about terrorism inside the FBI. This move, according to critics, was a contributing factor to the paucity of information sharing before to the September 11 attacks.

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