Background
Moschella, William Emil was born on April 17, 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
federal agency administrator lawyer
Moschella, William Emil was born on April 17, 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
Bachelor, University Virginia, 1990. Juris Doctor, George Mason University School Law, 1995.
Moschella received a bachelor"s degree from the University of Virginia in 1990. Following graduation, he spent seven years in a variety of positions in the office of Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-Virginia), while attending George Mason University Law School in the evenings. From 1997 to 2003, he held a number of positions on Capitol Hill, including serving as Counsel to the House Committee on Government Reform, General Counsel to the House Committee on Rules, Chief Investigative Counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary from 1999 to 2001, and Chief Legislative Counsel and Parliamentarian to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
In 2003, he was nominated by President Bush to serve as United States Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, and he was approved by the Senate on May 9, 2003.
Moschella was directly involved in making changes to the Patriot Acting that allowed interim United States Attorneys to serve indefinitely. On March 6, 2007, Moschella testified to the House Judiciary Committee that all the United States attorneys were fired for performance-related reasons, although he acknowledged that none of the attorneys were originally told why they had been fired.
He also testified that the White House had no involvement in the firings of United States Attorneys, testimony that was later shown to be incorrect by emails that were subsequently released. However, the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Justice, after an exhaustive investigation, found that "Moschella did not know that his testimony.
. was inaccurate. Moschella only reiterated publicly what he had been told about these issues and what McNulty had previously told the Senate Judiciary Committee." The IG stated on page 356 of its report: "Under these circumstances, we concluded that Moschella"s inaccurate testminony was not his fault and that he should not be criticized for lieutenant".