Dana J. Boente

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dana J. Boente

• Does Dana J. Boente smoke?: Not Known

• Does Dana J. Boente drink alcohol?: Not Known

• In 1982, He began his career as a law clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge J. Waldo Ackerman for the Central District of Illinois.

• He joined the Tax Division’s Criminal Section as part of the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1984.

• In January 2001, Boente was made an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Fraud Unit of EDVA.

• In August 2005, He was detailed to the Tax Division to serve as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

• Later Boente served as the U.S. Attorney for EDVA from October 2008 through September 2009.

• In December 2012, Boente was appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, he served position until September 2013.

• He became the Acting U.S. Attorney for EDVA by virtue of the Vacancy Reform Act on Sept. 23, 2013, and served in that position until Dec. 15, 2015.

• On 30 January 2017, US President Donald Trump announced Boente Attorney General of the United States after firing Sally Yates for the defiance of immigration ban.