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7 Do you have any questions for me before we get started?

Mr. Donoghue. I don't. Thank you.

BY :

Okay. Okay. Great. So I want to start just with a couple questions, Mr. Donoghue, about your background. I understand that you enlisted in the Reserves when you were 17 years old. Is that right?

Yes. I enlisted in the Army Reserves and the Military Police Corps when I was 17.

Tell me a little bit about your military career.

I served in one capacity or another more than 20 years, initially as an enlisted soldier, later as a cadet, and then as a commissioned officer. I spent 7 years on Active Duty after law school and the Judge Advocate General's Corps. I spent most of that time at Fort Bragg. I spent 3 years in the 82nd Airborne Division, a year at XVIII Airborne Corps serving in a variety of roles: prosecutor, defense counsel, legal assistance attorney, ethics advisor, administrative attorney, and probably a couple of other things as well.

After 7 years on Active Duty, I was put to the Individual Ready Reserve. In 2000, when I left the Army to join the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York, and I ultimately resigned my commission sometime in 2006.

I see. So you were a reservist from 2000 to 2006 when you were an AUSA?

Correct.

Okay. Let's talk about your time as a prosecutor. You were in the Eastern District of New York as an assistant for 11 years. Is that right?

Just under 12, right, from 2000 until November of 2011 when I left. I left as