Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, will be in th...
WASHINGTON - Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, will be in the spotlight on Monday when he releases his long-awaited report into the FBI’s probe into whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian officials.
Horowitz has spent much of his career trying to rise above politics, say former colleagues who describe him as a “straight shooter” who avoids ever talking about politics around the water cooler. Horowitz cut his teeth as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, where he investigated police corruption cases in the 1990s, said Lorin Reisner, who has known Horowitz more than 30 years. The two attended the same universities and were prosecutors in Manhattan together.
Horowitz’s first presidential appointment came from Republican President George W. Bush, who tapped him in 2003 to serve a six-year term as a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which is responsible for crafting guidelines used to determine the length of prison terms.
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