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Email: mlevy3@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Sentencing
- Evidence
Bio
Michael Levy is the Chief of Computer Crimes at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has served in the U.S. Department of Justice since 1980 with two one-year excursions into private practice. He has prosecuted fraud, drug, tax, and organized crime cases, as well as handling civil and criminal forfeiture actions. From 1991 to 1993, he was the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. From 1993 until 2001, he was the First Assistant United States Attorney. From September 2001 until May 2009 and since May 2010, he has been the Chief of Computer Crimes. From April until September 2001 and from May 2009 until May 2010, he was appointed by the Attorney General to serve as interim United States Attorney until the confirmation of a presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney.
As Chief of Computer Crime, Mr. Levy has prosecuted computer intrusion, computer fraud, and federal crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children. His most recent conviction in a jury trial was obtained in July 2007 in the prosecution of Anthony Mark Bianchi for traveling to Romania and Moldova to molest young teenage boys. For this prosecution he received an award from the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, he was the prosecutor of Larry Mendte, the local TV newscaster who pleaded guilty to unlawfully accessing his co-anchors e-mails.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mr. Levy worked as a Public Defender and as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia and as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He also had his own law practice for four years. He is a 1966 graduate (cum laude) of Brown University and a 1969 Penn Law graduate, where he was a finalist in the Keedy Cup Moot Court Competition.
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Education
- LLB - University of Pennsylvania Law School - '69
- A.B. - Brown University - '66
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