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This site is sponsored by CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington).
Here are the directors of CREW:
About CREW: Who We Are
Melanie Sloan, Executive Director
Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director. Prior to accepting this position, Ms. Sloan served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, where, from 1998- early 2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries. Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan was Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1998. She worked directly with the Honorable John Conyers, the ranking member of the Committee, specializing in criminal enforcement issues, including the Independent Counsel law. Her responsibilities included drafting legislation and committee reports (minority views), writing speeches, and working with interest groups. She also assisted a working group of Members of Congress in developing and drafting a Democratic alternative to the Republican juvenile justice bill.
In 1994, Ms. Sloan was Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, working for then Representative Charles Schumer. There, she drafted portions of the 1994 Crime Bill, including the Violence Against Women Act, and worked on issues including the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentencing, and habeas corpus. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then Chairman, Senator Joe Biden, where she researched the backgrounds of nominees to high level Department of Justice positions and to the federal courts. Prior to serving Congress, she was an associate at Howrey and Simon in Washington, D.C. and at Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in Los Angeles, California. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and has published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, the Legal Times, and the Washington Post.
Naomi Seligman, Deputy Director
Naomi Seligman serves as CREW's Deputy Director and Communications Director. Ms. Seligman has worked extensively as a communications professional developing and managing media strategies for campaigns, elected officials, and not-for-profit organizations. Most recently, Seligman was the communications director for Media Matters, a web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Prior to that, she served as the communications director for the Violence Policy Center, a gun control organization. She also has served as a press secretary in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and has functioned as director of outreach on the Small Business Committee.
Anne L. Weismann, Staff Attorney
Anne Weismann received her A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1975, and her J.D. from the National Law Center, George Washington University, in 1979. After working in the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of Labor for approximately 2 years, she joined the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, where she worked until the fall of 2002. From 1990 forward, Ms. Weismann served as an Assistant Branch Director with supervisory responsibility first over banking litigation, then housing litigation, and from 1995 until 2002, she supervised all government information litigation. This included litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, third party subpoenas, and statutes governing presidential records. From 2002 through 2004, Ms. Weismann served as Deputy Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications CommissionÊ where she had responsibility for all of the Bureau's telecommunications matters.
citizensforethics.org
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