Commendations of Attorney Weintraub
As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Weintraub had the distinction of receiving
several commendations regarding his excellent trial skills, including:
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Commendation from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director William
H. Webster for outstanding prosecution efforts in an 11-week long criminal
jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Georgia involving international loan fraud, which, at the time the
jury verdict was returned on April 4, 1983, was the second longest jury
trial ever prosecuted in federal court in Atlanta. Year: 1984
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Commendation from the Southern Regional Director of Internal Security Division
of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for outstanding prosecution efforts
in a $500,000.00 attempted
bribery prosecution in the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Georgia which, at that time, was the largest bribe ever attempted in
the history of the IRS. Year: 1984
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Commendation from acting Assistant Director of Investigations for the United
States Secret Service, Department of the Treasury, Joseph R. Carlon for
outstanding prosecution efforts in a stolen securities case in the United
States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This was a
nationwide precedent setting prosecution which established that the government's
interest in stolen United States savings bonds exists with any holder
of the bonds, even if the government has issued replacement bonds to the
original owner of the bonds. The appellate decision in this prosecution
can be found at United States v. Carr, 706 F2d 1108 (11th Cir. 1983).
Year: 1983
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Commendation from the acting Inspector General of the United States Small
Business Administration (SBA) for Howard Jarrett Weintraub's outstanding
prosecution efforts in a $1 million dollar fraud prosecution brought under
the SBA Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended, in the United
States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Year: 1982
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Commendation from United States Attorney General William French Smith for
outstanding prosecution efforts of the striking air traffic controllers
in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Year: 1981
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Commendation from the Director of the Federal Aviation Administration,
Southern Regional Office, Jonathan Howe for outstanding prosecution efforts
of the striking air traffic controllers in the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Year: 1981
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Commendation from United States District Judge James Lawrence King for
Howard Jarrett Weintraub's outstanding prosecution efforts in a drug
trafficking case in the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Florida. Year: 1981
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Commendation from the Special Agent in charge of the Atlanta Office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Glover for Howard Jarrett Weintraub's
outstanding prosecution efforts of a notorious advance fee loan swindler
in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Year: 1981
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Commendation from the Special Agent in charge of the Atlanta Office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Glover for Howard Jarrett Weintraub's
outstanding prosecution efforts in an international loan fraud case in
the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Year: 1981
Mr. Weintraub graduated with distinction from law school at Emory University
School of Law. He was also a member of the editorial board of his university’s
law review. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor in Atlanta, he accepted
an appointment with the government to be an Honors Program Attorney with
the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department
of Justice in Washington, D.C. While in this position, less than two years
out of Emory, Mr. Weintraub helped write the government's brief before
the United States Supreme Court in the critically important case of United
States v. Ceccolini, 435 U.S. 268, 98 S.Ct. 1054, 55 L.Ed.2d 268 (1978).
This decision concerned the issue of the suppression of the trial testimony
of a witness whose identity was discovered through an illegal search of
a defendant's business.
