Michael Atkinson (Inspector General)
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| Michael Atkinson | |
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| File:Michael K. Atkinson official photo.jpg | |
| Inspector General of the Intelligence Community | |
| Assumed office May 17, 2018 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Charles McCullough |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 16, 1964 Oswego, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Syracuse University (BA) Cornell University (JD) |
Michael K. Atkinson (born May 16, 1964) is the second United States Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. He assumed office on May 17, 2018.
Atkinson was born in Oswego, New York.[1] He earned his Juris Doctorate from Cornell University in 1991 and his Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in 1986.[1][2] Atkinson was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in November 1991.[3] Atkinson then served as a partner at Winston & Strawn, where he focused his practice on white collar defense, internal investigations, and complex civil litigation.
Atkinson worked for the U.S. Department of Justice for over fifteen years. He was a trial attorney in the Department of Justice Criminal Division, Fraud Section, from 2002 through 2006. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2006 through 2016, where he was the Acting Chief and Deputy Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. In 2012, he was awarded the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for his work on a significant public corruption case. Thereafter, he served in Department of Justice National Security Division as the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset Protection and as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General.
Atkinson was awarded the Executive Office for United States Attorneys’ Director’s Award for Superior Performance by an Assistant United States Attorney, and the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Gaston L. Gianni Jr. Better Government Award for his work prosecuting the largest domestic bribery and bid steering scheme in the history of federal contracting.
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