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8 the chief of the criminal division.

And, generally, for the record, what does the criminal chief in a U.S. Attorney's Office do?

In the Eastern District of New York, the criminal chief oversees about 120 or so AUSAs divided into eight different sections. We have two offices in the Eastern District of New York—one in Brooklyn, one in Central Islip on Long Island—and, basically, along with a lot of other supervisors within the Criminal Division, operates the division, the prosecutions, and the investigations pursuant to the instructions of the U.S. attorney, who, when I left—actually, when I started in 2000 was Loretta Lynch and when I left in 2011 was Loretta Lynch.

And she had left and come back, right? whole time? She wasn't the U.S. attorney that whole time?

Correct.

Right.

Right, I worked for a number of U.S. attorneys.

Fair to say that the criminal chief supervises all of the criminal litigation in the U.S. Attorney's Office reporting just underneath the U.S. attorney?

Yes, that's right. We never had a first assistant when I was the criminal chief, so my reporting chain was directly to the U.S. attorney.

Got it. Okay. So you left in 2011. the U.S. Attorney's Office? Is that right, Mr. Donoghue, you left the U.S. Attorney's Office?

Yes. I went to a software company where I stayed for about 6 years. It was a Fortune 500 software company on Long Island.

What was your role there?

I was ultimately the chief of worldwide litigation. I initially was brought in