Background
Rocco, Victor J. was born on October 7, 1946 in New York, New York, United States.
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Victor J. Rocco
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Saint John"s University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1967. Juris Doctor, 1970).
Career
Worked at Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein (New York, New York) specializing in Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1972, New New York United States. Supreme Court.
United States.
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. United States. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New New York Saint Thomas More Scholar.
Notes and Comments Editor, Saint John"s Law Review, 1969-1970.
Author: "Criminal RICO Defense Techniques" and "Government Civil RICO," RICO: Civil and Criminal Law and Strategy (Rakoff & Goldstein, eds., Law Journal Seminars Press, 1989). "Strategy and Techniques for Defending Criminal Cases," (Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Annual RICO Litigation Seminars), Law Journal Press (1986-1988).
"Government Civil RICO," Sixth Annual RICO Litigation Seminar, Law Journal Press (1989). Assistant United States.
Attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1976-1983, Chief, Criminal Division, 1981-1983, and Chief, Narcotics Section, 1978-1980.
Law Clerk, Honorable John F. Scileppi, Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals, 1970-1972. Member, Criminal Litigation Committee, United States. District Court, Eastern District of New New York
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Criminal Law Committee, 1983-1986.
Criminal Advocacy Committee, 1986-1989. Ad Hoc Committee on Pre-Trial Publicity, 1986).
Federal Bar Council. New York Council of Defense Lawyers (Director, 1988-1991.
Chair, Federal Rules Committee, 1993). New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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Membership
Member, Criminal Litigation Committee, United States. District Court, Eastern District of New New York Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Criminal Law Committee, 1983-1986.
Criminal Advocacy Committee, 1986-1989.
Ad Hoc Committee on Pre-Trial Publicity, 1986). Federal Bar Council; New York Council of Defense Lawyers (Director, 1988-1991.
Chair, Federal Rules Committee, 1993). New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
