Carmen Ortiz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carmen Ortiz
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1956(1956-01-05)
Age	68
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Carmen Ortiz Biography

Carmen Ortiz is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on January 5, 1956 in New York, United States. Carmen Milagros Ortiz, born January 5, 1956, is an attorney, college teacher, and former United States Attorney of the District of Massachusetts.

Ortiz is the mother of two daughters, and she is married to Thomas J. Dolan, an IBM executive. Her first husband, Michael Vittorio Morisi died in 2000.

In May 2009, Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry recommended Ortiz to President Obama for the vacant United States Attorney position in the District of Massachusetts. On September 18, Obama nominated Ortiz for the position. On November 5, the United States Senate confirmed her appointment by unanimous consent.

In 2009, she was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama. Ortiz was both the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. She succeeded Michael Sullivan in that position, with Michael J. Loucks serving as the interim U.S. Attorney between Sullivan’s resignation and Ortiz’s confirmation. Noteworthy prosecutions by her office include those of Whitey Bulger, Tarek Mehanna, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as well as the controversial prosecution of Aaron Swartz.

Ortiz’s office attempted to seize the Motel Caswell, Tewksbury Massachusetts, from Russ Caswell. Prosecutors claimed that Caswell had not been charged with any crime and that his property was subject of civil forfeiture because it was a site for long-term criminal activity. Ortiz spokeswoman, saying that the government considered this an important case. This was not only for Tewksbury which has been plagued by Motel Caswell’s criminal activities, but also because it sends a deterrent message to other people who might turn a blindeye to crimes occurring at their business. Caswell stated that the property was where 15 drug crimes occurred between 1994 and 2008. He rents approximately 14,000 rooms each year. Caswell was represented in court by the Institute for Justice. This non-profit, libertarian law firm is involved in asset forfeiture cases.

Carmen Ortiz Net Worth

Carmen Ortiz is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carmen Ortiz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ortiz was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. She grew up in East Harlem. Ortiz claims that Perry Mason’s television show inspired her to become an attorney as a child. After graduating from The Saint Agnes School, Ortiz received her B.B.A. from Adelphi University in 1978. She worked in her family’s gift shop for many years. Later, Ortiz earned her J.D. In 1981, Ortiz graduated from George Washington University’s National Law Center. Ortiz worked as an intern in the Public Integrity Section of United States Department of Justice during the summer 1980 with Eric Holder, later to become U.S. Attorney. With Philip Heymann, a Harvard professor and former Watergate prosecutor, she worked on Guatemalan judicial reform.

Ortiz worked as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1981 to 1983. Ortiz was Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County in Massachusetts from 1983 to 1988, and 1991 to 1994. Ortiz entered the private sector in 1988 with Braintree law firm Marinelli & Morisi. She would remain there until 1989. Ortiz was also the coordinator of Harvard Law School’s Center for Criminal Justice from 1988 to 1991. After being appointed by Paul Tagliabue as NFL Commissioner, Ortiz served on a committee that investigated sexual harassment allegations against New England Patriots players in 1990. In 1997, Ortiz became an Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Ortiz was “admonished by a federal appeals court in 2004 for advocating a harsher jail term for a fraud defendant than she had promised him in a plea- bargain agreement.” In a plea deal, Ortiz had agreed to leniency, but she “substantively argued” for a harsher sentence. The Appeals Court ruled that Ortiz “violated the plea agreement it entered into with Gonczy,” and it vacated the sentence.

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Who is Carmen Ortiz Dating?

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Carmen Ortiz led the prosecution of American pharmacist Tarek Mehanna, who was accused of, among other crimes, translating and posting online materials described by prosecutors as Al Qaeda propaganda. Mehanna’s lawyers argued that he never tried to join an armed group and never tried to hurt anyone, and that his internet activities were protected under the U.S. First Amendment. In April 2012, Mehanna was sentenced in federal court in Boston on four terrorism-related charges and three others related to lying to agents of the FBI and other U.S. federal officials.

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On March 23, 2012, Ortiz’s office secured grand jury indictments against former state Probation Commissioner John J. O’Brien and two of his former deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, for their involvement in running a sham hiring system in which friends and family members of legislators and politically connected job seekers were hired over more qualified applicants. Each faces one count of racketeering conspiracy and 10 counts of mail fraud for sending rejection letters to applicants they knew they were never going to consider. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison on each of the 11 counts. Ortiz said the indictments are “one step in an ongoing investigation.”