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UNITED STATES SENATE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NON-JUDICIAL NOMINEES
PUBLIC
1. Name: State full name (include any former names used).
Karen Louise Loeffler
2. Position: State the position for which you have been nominated.
United States Attorney for the District of Alaska
3. Address: List current office address. If city and state of residence differs from your
place of employment, please list the city and state where you currently reside.
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
222 W 7 th Avenue, #9, Room 253
Anchorage, AK 99513
4. Birthplace: State date and place of birth.
1957; New York City, New York
5. Education: List in reverse chronological order each college, law school, or any other
institution of higher education attended and indicate for each the dates of attendance,
whether a degree was received, and the date each degree was received.
9/80 - 6/83 Harvard Law School, J.D. June 8, 1983
9/75 - 6/79 Dartmouth College, AB. June 10, 1979
6. Employment Record: List in reverse chronological order all governmental agencies,
business or professional corporations, companies, firms, or other enterprises,
partnerships, institutions or organizations, non-profit or otherwise, with which you have
been affiliated as an officer, director, partner, proprietor, or employee since graduation
from college, whether or not you received payment for your services. Include the name
and address of the employer and job title or description.
3/1/09 - Present: Interim U.S. Attorney, District of Alaska
4/9/89 - Present: Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Alaska
Chief, Criminal Division 7/3/94 to 2/24/02 and 1/21/07 to 3/1/09
Address: 222 W. 7 th Ave, Rm. 253, Anchorage, AK 99513
6/14/05 - 1/08: Park Commissioner for the City of Anchorage
7/02 - Present: Director Anchorage Ski Club
Address: P.O. Box 102571, Anchorage, AK 99510

Director of non-profit charitable organization that runs a non-profit volunteer run ski area
in Anchorage, Alaska
6/86 - 4/9/89: Assistant District Attorney, State of Alaska, Anchorage Office
Address: 310 K St., Suite 520, Anchorage, AK 99501
1/88 - 4/89: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA) as a member of the trial team on
an 8 month RICO trial in federal court.
10/85 -6/86: Assistant Attorney General, Oil and Gas Division, State of Alaska,
Anchorage Office.
10/83 - 6/85: Associate, Faegre and Benson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Address: 2200 Wells Fargo Center, 90 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN
55402-3901
Served as associate in the business litigation division of a large law firm.
Summers from 1979 through 1983 worked as self employed tennis instructor
7. Military Service and Draft Status: Identify any service in the U.S. Military, including
dates of service, branch of service, rank or rate, serial number (if different from social
security number) and type of discharge received, and whether you have registered for
selective service.
None. I was not required to register for the selective service.
8. Honors and Awards: List any scholarships, fellowships, honorary degrees, academic or
professional honors, honorary society memberships, military awards, and any other
special recognition for outstanding service or achievement.
Graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude
Graduated from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, With High Distinction in
Government, member of Phi Beta Kappa
Law Enforcement Recognition:
2/08 From Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of the FBI for successful prosecution of
U.S. v. Hayes, Misapplication of Government Funds and Money Laundering case.
Commendation from DOl-OIG for prosecution of U.S. v. Hayes.
9. Bar Associations: List all bar associations or legal or judicial-related committees,
selection panels or conferences of which you are or have been a member, and give the
titles and dates of any offices which you have held in such groups.
None.

10. Bar and Court Admission:
a. List the date(s) you were admitted to the bar of any state and any lapses in
membership. Please explain the reason for any lapse in membership.
Alaska Bar Association - Admitted December 2, 1985. No lapses in membership.
Minnesota State Bar Association - Admitted Nov. 1983 (lapsed) inactive
beginning in 1986. At some point in time, probably 15 years ago or more, I
determined not to keep up my Minnesota Bar membership as I did not have any
intention of returning to practice there. Therefore, it lapsed. I cannot recall what
year it was that I decided not to continue maintaining this membership. The
Minnesota Bar web site does not list the date that it lapsed and I have been
unable, to date, to reach anyone at the Minnesota bar to determine when this
membership lapsed.
b. List all courts in which you have been admitted to practice, including dates of
admission and any lapses in membership. Please explain the reason for any lapse
in membership. Give the same information for administrative bodies that require
special admission to practice.
11. Memberships:
Alaska Supreme Court - December 2, 1985
United States District Court for the District of Alaska - December 2, 1985
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - December 1989
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota - November 1, 1983
No lapses in membership.
a. List all professional, business, fraternal, scholarly, civic, charitable, or other
organizations, other than those listed in response to Questions 9 or 10 to which
you belong, or to which you have belonged, since graduation from law school.
Provide dates of membership or participation, and indicate any office you held.
Include clubs, working groups, advisory or editorial boards, panels, committees,
conferences, or publications.
Anchorage Ski Club. Held title as President in 2008, and 2004-2005.
Anchorage Nordic Ski Club - Member from 1985, to present.
b. Indicate whether any of these organizations listed in response to 11a above
currently discriminate or formerly discriminated on the basis of race, sex, religion
or national origin either through formal membership requirements or the practical
implementation of membership policies. If so, describe any action you have taken
to change these policies and practices.
None.

12. Published Writings and Public Statements:
a. List the titles, publishers, and dates of books, articles, reports, letters to the editor,
editorial pieces, or other published material you have written or edited, including
material published only on the Internet. Supply four (4) copies of all published
material to the Committee.
None.
b. Supply four (4) copies of any reports, memoranda or policy statements you
prepared or contributed in the preparation of on behalf of any bar association,
committee, conference, or organization of which you were or are a member. If
you do not have a copy of a report, memorandum or policy statement, give the
name and address of the organization that issued it, the date of the document, and
a summary of its subject matter.
None.
c. Supply four (4) copies of any testimony, official statements or other
communications relating, in whole or in part, to matters of public policy or legal
interpretation, that you have issued or provided or that others presented on your
behalf to public bodies or public officials.
None.
d. Supply four (4) copies, transcripts or recordings of all speeches or talks delivered
by you, including commencement speeches, remarks, lectures, panel discussions,
conferences, political speeches, and question-and-answer sessions. Include the
date and place where they were delivered, and readily available press reports
about the speech or talk. If you do not have a copy of the speech or a transcript or
recording of your remarks, give the name and address of the group before whom
the speech was given, the date of the speech, and a summary of its subject matter.
If you did not speak from a prepared text, furnish a copy of any outline or notes
from which you spoke.
None.
e. List all interviews you have given to newspapers, magazines or other
publications, or radio or television stations, providing the dates of these
interviews and four (4) copies of the clips or transcripts of these interviews where
they are available to you.
I have done my best to identify all items called for in this question, including
through a review of my personal files and searches of publicly available electronic
databases. I have located the following:
US Fed News, n/a, "Information Issued By U.S. Attorney's Office For Alaska On
March 24: Juneau Guide Sentenced To Jail, Pays Over $70,000 In Fines,
Restitution," 6/3/09
Targeted News Service, n/a "California Man Sentenced to 36 Years in Prison for
Child Predator Crimes," 5/14/09

Anchorage Daily News, Richard Mauer, "Interim US attorney going back to
Pittsburgh," 2/28/09
Anchorage Daily News, Mike Campbell, "Snow machine," 12/21/08
Anchorage Daily News, James Halpin, "Postal workers charged in thefts,"
9/16/08
Fairbanks Daily News-Minor, Christopher Eshleman, "Former mayor, first lady,
sentenced to federal prison," 5/2/08
Yukon News, Ian Stewart, "Snowboard trials in Watson Lake and free skiing in
Alaska," 2/20/08
Fairbanks Daily News-Minor, Christopher Eshleman, "Hayes' church moves on
in wake of pastor's guilty verdict," 2/13/08
Fairbanks Daily News-Minor, Christopher Eshleman, "Former Mayor Jim Hayes
found guilty on 16 counts," 2/12/08
AP, n/a, "Former Fairbanks mayor convicted," 2/12/08
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Bonnie Barber, "Karen Loeffler," 1/08
Anchorage Daily News, Elizabeth Bluemink, "9 Charged with mortgage fraud,"
12/18/07
Anchorage Daily News, Steve Edwards, "Sensational skiing," 12/2/07
Anchorage Daily News, Wesley Loy, "Oil spill costs tanker firm $2.5 million,"
10/24/07
Anchorage Daily News, Elizabeth Bluemink, "Loan officer may appeal sentence,"
9/5/07
Anchorage Daily News, Kyle Hopkins, "Youth now an issue on city advisory
boards," 2/7/07
AP, Rachel D'oro, "Ex-Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, Indicted," 1/18/07
Anchorage Daily News, Megan Holland, "Credit union embezzler gets 4 years,"
7/26/05
AP, n/a, "Accused identity thief faces more allegations," 3/4/04
AP, n/a, "Woman charged in identity theft, fraud case," 2/28/04
Anchorage Daily News, Sheila Toomey, "Investigator on the job despite
indictment," 8/10/02
AP, n/a, "Attorney says accused pipeline shooter will appeal federal conviction,"
3/2/02

Anchorage Daily News, Lisa Derner, "Grand jury mulls print shop case,"
10/27/01
Anchorage Daily News, Liz Ruskin, "Court upholds law," 5/15/01
Chicago Daily Herald, Fred Woodhams, "Unruly passenger faces prison, fines
Buffalo Grove accountant accused of interfering with crew held in Alaska,"
1/11/01
Scripps Howard News Service, Karen Aho, "Experts: Bank robbers don't fit
stereotypes," 6/4/00
Tundra Times, David Totten, "Excel Navigation fined for Aleutian Oil Spill,"
8/14/96
Anchorage Daily News, Helen Jung, "Ketchikan pulp to pay $3 million fine,"
3/7/95
Seattle Times, Joe Haberstroh, "Fishing exec sentencing," 3/16/94
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, n/a, "Defendants acquitted in Alaska bribery trial,"
9/22/90
13. Public Office, Political Activities and Affiliations:
a. List chronologically any public offices you have held, other than judicial offices,
including the terms of service and whether such positions were elected or
appointed. If appointed, please include the name of the individual who appointed
you. Also, state chronologically any unsuccessful candidacies you have had for
elective office or unsuccessful nominations for appointed office.
Park Commissioner for the City of Anchorage, from June 14,2005, to January
2008. (Unpaid position - appointed by then Mayor, now Senator Mark Begich).
Resigned due to inability to attend to commission duties and meetings due to time
conflicts with work schedule.
United States Attorney for the District of Alaska by Court Appointment, from
March 1, 2009 to present.
b. List all memberships and offices held in and services rendered, whether
compensated or not, to any political party or election committee. If you have ever
held a position or played a role in a political campaign, identify the particulars of
the campaign, including the candidate, dates of the campaign, your title and
responsibilities.
I have never had a title in a campaign or held any paying job. As a college
student I provided some office services during the summer of 1976, in the last
reelection campaign of former Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. I believe
I compiled a list of all minor campaign contributors.
I also did some door knocking, stuffed envelopes and did similar related work in
my mother's campaign for Minnesota State Senate in 1972.

14. Legal Career: Answer each part separately.
a. Describe chronologically your law practice and legal experience after graduation
from law school including:
b. Describe:
1. whether you served as clerk to a judge, and if so, the name of the judge,
the court and the dates of the period you were a clerk;
No. I have never served as a judicial law clerk.
11. whether you practiced alone, and if so, the addresses and dates;
No. I have never practiced alone.
iii. the dates, names and addresses of law firms or offices, companies or
governmental agencies with which you have been affiliated, and the
nature of your affiliation with each.
3/1/09 - Present Interim U.S. Attorney, District of Alaska
4/9/89 - Present Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Alaska
Address: 222 W. 7 th Ave, Rm. 253, Anchorage, AK 99513
7/3/94 to 2/24/02 and 1/21/07 to 3/1/09 - Chief, Criminal Division
6/14/05 to 1/08 - Park Commissioner for the City of Anchorage.
6/86 - 4/9/89 - Assistant District Attorney, State of Alaska, Anchorage
Office Address: 310 K St., Suite 520, Anchorage, AK 99501
1/88 - 4/89 - Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA)
10/85 -6/86 - Assistant Attorney General, Oil and Gas Division, State
of Alaska, 1031 W. 4 th Ave., Suite 200, Anchorage, Alaska 99501.
10/83 - 6/8 - Associate, Faegre and Benson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Address: 2200 Wells Fargo Center, 90 South Seventh Street,
Minneapolis, MN 55402-3901
iv. whether you served as a mediator or arbitrator in alternative dispute
resolution proceedings and, if so, a description of the 10 most significant
matters with which you were involved in that capacity.
No. I have never served as a mediator or arbitrator.
1. the general character of your law practice and indicate by date when its
character has changed over the years.

I have been a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office for the
past 21 years. I have prosecuted a full range of federal criminal cases, but
have specialized in complex white collar prosecutions. During
approximately 10 of my 21 years as an AUSA I have served as chief of the
criminal division. Prior to my time as an AUSA I was an Assistant
District Attorney for the State of Alaska from 1986 - 1989, an Assistant
Attorney General for the State of Alaska from 1985 -1986 and an
associate practicing business litigation from 1983 to 1985.
ii. your typical clients and the areas at each period of your legal career, if
any, in which you have specialized.
The people of the State of Alaska from 1985 - 1989, specializing in oil
and gas issues and then criminal prosecution. The people and agencies of
the United States from 1989 to the present, specializing in complex white
collar prosecutions.
c. Describe the percentage of your practice that has been in litigation and whether
you appeared in court frequently, occasionally, or not at all. If the frequency of
your appearances in court varied, describe such variance, providing dates.
Virtually all of my practice is litigation, I have appeared in court frequently
throughout my career as a prosecutor. Although, of course, as an office
supervisor I also manage an office oflitigators. As a D.A. in Alaska 21 years ago
I appeared daily in state court. I also appeared before an administrative law
judge representing the insurance industry as an associate at Faegre and Benson
some 25 years ago.
1. Indicate the percentage of your practice in:
1. federal courts; 100%
2. state courts of record; None.
3. other courts; None.
4. administrative agencies. None.
ii. Indicate the percentage of your practice in:
1. civil proceedings; 0%
2. criminal proceedings. 100%
d. State the number of cases in courts of record, including cases before
administrative law judges, you tried to verdict, judgment or final decision (rather
than settled), indicating whether you were sole counsel, chief counsel, or associate
counsel.
I can only give an approximation due to the nature of my career as a prosecutor
for 25 years. My best estimate of the number of trials I have had as both a state
and federal prosecutor is somewhere between 40 and 55. As a state prosecutor I
was sole counsel on all cases. As a federal prosecutor I have been co-counsel on
two trials and principal counsel on at least four other trials that I tried with others
to the best of my recollection. In all other cases I was the sole government
counsel.

1. What percentage of these trials were:
1. jury; 90%.
2. non-jury. 10%.
e. Describe your practice, if any, before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Supply four (4) copies of any briefs, amicus or otherwise, and, if applicable, any
oral argument transcripts before the Supreme Court in connection with your
practice.
None. I have never practiced before the Supreme Court of the United States.
15. Litigation: Describe the ten (10) most significant litigated matters which you personally
handled, whether or not you were the attorney of record. Give the citations, if the cases
were reported, and the docket number and date if unreported. Give a capsule summary of
the substance of each case. Identify the party or parties whom you represented; describe
in detail the nature of your participation in the litigation and the final disposition of the
case. Also state as to each case:
a. the date of representation;
b. the name of the court and the name of the judge or judges before whom the case
was litigated; and
c. the individual name, addresses, and telephone numbers of co-counsel and of
principal counsel for each of the other parties.
us v. Lewis M. Dischner and Carl W. Mathisen
Doug Pope (Dischner)
421 W 1st Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage,AJe 99501
(907) 272-8577
Laurence Finegold (Mathisen)
1807 7th Ave., Suite 301
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 682-1116
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge James M. Fitzgerald
Indictment 1987. Trial Sept. 1988 - May 1989. Sentencing Jan. 1990.
3:87-cr-00160-JMF Convictions affirmed, U.S. v. Dischner, 974 F.2d 1502 (9th Cir. 1992)
Dischner and Mathisen- Convicted 2 contractors of RICO and related offenses involving 20
million dollar bribery and kickback scheme that took place during the early development of the
North Slope Borough of Alaska. Defendants bribed native officials of the North Slope Borough
in Alaska and took kickbacks and construction contracts to loot the Borough of oil monies used
for construction projects throughout the North Slope of Alaska. Acted as one of 3 trial counsel.
I was assigned as a Special AUSA after the indictment and handled pretrial motions, did all the
jury instructions and handled all of the experts and a number of other witnesses in the trial. Also

handled part of both the opening and rebuttal closings. Post-trial all of the other counsel resigned
from the U.S. Attorney's office so I was the sole attorney on the successful Ninth Circuit appeal.
us v. Edward Ted McDonald and Edward James Jennings
John W. Murtaugh (Jennings)
1101 W. 7th Avenue
Anchorage AK, 99501
(907) 274-8664
Hugh Fleischer (McDonald)
310 K Street, Suite 200
Anchorage,AK 9501
(907) 264-6635
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge John. W. Sedwick
Superseding Indictment September 2005, Sentencing March 2006.
3:05-CR-00065-JWS
McDonald and Jennings - Convicted two home repair contractors of conspiring to defraud,
primarily elderly, home owners by providing substandard home repair work. The defendants
were engaged in a nationwide practice using false identities, fraudulent information and other
actions to convince elderly homeowners to hire them to do roofmg and paving jobs. After
spraying substandard materials on their homes, they would cash the checks immediately and flee
the state before they could be caught. They were arrested in Ketchikan, Alaska while attempting
to obtain Alaska identification with false California driver's licenses. Upon arrest the defendants
were found to have warrants outstanding from four states for fraud. I was the assigned AUSA. I
drafted the indictments charging them with a multi-state scheme to defraud the elderly, commit
social security fraud and copyright infringement for misrepresenting the materials they were
using. I negotiated plea agreements and obtained the agreement of the state and county
prosecutors from all other charging jurisdictions for global plea agreements under which the
defendants pled to conspiracy, agreed to restitution for all of the victims in the charging
jurisdictions and were sentenced to 33 months imprisonment.
us v. Ralph E. Whitmore Jr. and H. Darrell Smith
Marc Topel (Whitmore)
832 Sansome St FI 4
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 421-6140
Louis Menendez (Smith)
227 7th Street
Juneau'AK 99801
(907) 586-5996
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge H. Russel Holland

11/16/1994 - 5/3/2000 Smith was originally tried with Ralph Whitmore. The jury hung on all
counts as to him. I then tried him on two counts of making nominee loans. He was convicted and
his conviction was upheld on appeal.
3:94-cr-00136-HRH
Whitmore et. al. ~Convicted the Chairman of the Board of an Alaska bank and the bank
president of numerous schemes involving fraudulent insider loans, excessive expense accounts
and accounting fraud. In addition to other schemes, the trial involved proof, pre-Enron, of bank
insiders manipulating the bank's books to falsify the bank's financial statements in order to
support large dividends that inured to the benefit of the defendant CEO. Handled the successful
interlocutory appeal, after the District Court dismissed the case, United States v. Ely, 142 F.3d
1113 (9th Cir. 1998), and the successful appeal after trial. (I authored all of the briefs and
conducted all three oral arguments in both cases. However, I was acting US Attorney on the case
and the published opinion lists co-counsel Joseph Bottini as counsel of record.) Smith was the
president of Alaska State bank and was indicted as part of the Whitmore et.al. indictment. The
District Court severed two counts involving a nominee loan obtained by Smith at his own bank.
After the jury hung on all counts against Smith in the first Whitmore trial, I tried him on the
severed nominee loan counts. The jury convicted and I briefed and argued the successful appeal.
Smith was the president of Alaska State bank and was indicted as part of the Whitmore et.al.
indictment. The District Court severed two counts involving a nominee loan obtained by Smith
at his own bank. After the jury hung on all counts against Smith in the first Whitmore trial, I
tried him on the severed nominee loan counts. The jury convicted and I briefed and argued the
successful appeal.
us v. Emmitt L. Wilson, Gilbert R. Serrano and Sharon G. Campbell
Jim Gilmore
711 H Street, Suite 620
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 272-9272
Allan Dayan
745 W 43th Ave., Suite 400
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 277-2330
Dan Dennis (Deceased)
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge Ronald S.W. Lew Central
District of California
6/11/1991 - 1/17/1992
3:91~cr-00034-RSW
Wilson, Serrano and Campbell ~Convicted the CEO of a credit union, a real estate
agent and lawyer of various bank fraud schemes involving land flips, off-the~book
letters of credit and other insider dealing resulting in the collapse of the credit
union. Case arose out of the banking scandals of the mid to late 1980's. Also handled
the successful Ninth Circuit appeal.

us v. Becky Nadine Hunter
Sue Ellen Tatter
Assistant Federal Public Defender
601 W. 5th Ave. Suite 800,
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 646-3400
u.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Fairbanks)Judge Ralph R. Beistline
3/16/2004 - Resentencing set for 6/14/09
4:04~cr-00002~RRB
Becky Hunter was indicted on 24 counts of identity theft and fraud. Ms. Hunter stole the
identities of two licensed nurses - a missionary nurse licensed in New York who ministered to
African children and another nurse residing in Canada. Using the real nurses identities, Ms.
Hunter obtained three Alaska nursing licenses in two different names. She used the licenses first
to obtain a series of nursing jobs. Later, Ms. Hunter created a further series of fictitious credit
histories and identities in order to obtain real estate and car loans that she never paid,
government and private jobs, that she rarely attended, bankruptcy protection that she did not
qualify for and other frauds. Upon arrest agents found that she had lied to Angel Flight, an
organization that provides airline services to the families of severely ill children in order to
obtain free airline travel. Ms. Hunter pled guilty on 21 counts on the day of trial but she elected
to go to trial on one count in which she attempted to obtain a 1.8 million dollar loan from the
USDA. She was convicted of that count and sentenced to 10 years. Resentencing set for
6/14/09.
us v. Daniel Carlson Lewis
Sue Ellen Tatter
Assistant Federal Public Defender
601 W. 5th Ave. Suite 800,
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 646~3400
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge John. W. Sedwick
10/18/2001 ~6/23/03. Lewis was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 10 years.
3:0 l-cr-OO149-JWS
Daniel Lewis ~Convicted Alaska resident of being a felon in possession for shooting
a hole in the TransAlaska Pipeline in the fall of2001, spilling approximately 280,000
gallons of oil on the surrounding tundra. Handled the successful appeal.
us v. Kourosh Partow
Kevin T. Fitzgerald
813 W. 3rd Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
258-8750

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge H. Russel Holland
12/14/2006 - 10/12/2007
3:06-cr-00 104-HRH
Partow was a mortgage banker. He was indicted along with six other individuals in
a mortgage scheme involving large numbers of nominee loans and falsified income and
asset statements. Partow's role as mortgage banker was to permit nominee loans and falsify
income and asset figures so that nominee borrowers for the lead defendant - Azem Limani-would
qualify for easy loan programs without scrutiny. Partow plead guilty but disputed wrong
doing at sentencing. After a two and a half day evidentiary hearing, the court
found Partow had participated in a broad scheme, as alleged by the government, and sentenced
him to 25 months. I handle the investigation, sentencing and the successful appeal.
us v. Nancy Held
Allan Dayan
745 W 43th Ave., Suite 400
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 277-2330
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge John. W. Sedwick
2/2003 - 8/2003
3:03-cr-00029-JWS
Nancy Held was charged with four counts of mortgage fraud. She was a real estate agent
and falsified papers in order to misstate borrowers income for the purpose of qualifying them for
loans they might not have otherwise been able to obtain. Ms. Held was convicted on all counts.
I handled the investigation and trial. Ms. Held was sentenced to probation and did not appeal.
us v. Timothy J. Donnelly
Keenan Powell
3700 Jewel Lake Rd
Anchorage,AK 99502
(907) 258-7663
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge Fitzgerald
1991 - 1992
3:91-cr-00114-JMF
Timothy Donnelly - Convicted Anchorage prior felon on drug related homicide for possessing a
weapon during a narcotics trafficking offense. I was principal counsel at trial and handled the
successful appeal.

us v. Barbara Ann Strain
Meredith Ahearn
745 W. 4th Ave., Suite 304,
Anchorage, AK 99501
276-5294
U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (Anchorage) Judge John. W. Sedwick
1/21/1997 - 10/0811997
3:97-cr-00004-JWS
Ms. Strain was convicted on conducting two armed bank robberies and an armed robbery of a
liquor store. She was the leader of a female/female robbery team and ran an identity defense as
all 17 victims of the robberies identified this 6'1" female as a male. After rejecting a 15 year
plea offer, Ms. Strain, a prior felon, was convicted of all three robberies and sentenced to 55
years. I handled the trial and successful appeal.
16. Legal Activities: Describe the most significant legal activities you have pursued,
including significant litigation which did not progress to trial or legal matters that did not
involve litigation. Describe fully the nature of your participation in these activities. List
any client(s) or organization(s) for whom you performed lobbying activities and describe
the lobbying activities you performed on behalf of such client(s) or organizations(s).
(Note: As to any facts requested in this question, please omit any information protected
by the attorney-client privilege.)
As a career prosecutor all of my legal activities have involved investigations leading to
litigation. In addition to the above, I worked on a number of major fisheries
investigations. In U.S. v. Pacific King Fisheries, a Seattle company plead guilty to Lacey
Act violations for falsely labeling fish products in violation of NOAA regulations. The
corporation paid a fine of $2.3 million, which, I believe, was the largest Lacey Act fine
ever imposed at the time. The fishmaster on the vessel served a year in jail. In U.S. v.
Emerald Resources, another Seattle company plead guilty to altering fishing log books so
as to conceal incursions in to a protected sea lion rookery. As criminal chief, of and on,
for over ten years, I have supervised an excellent team of criminal prosecutors involved
in any number of important cases. I have also taught complex white collar prosecutions
at the National Advocacy Center focusing on accounting fraud. In addition to
prosecuting two mortgage fraud cases to conclusion, I lead the investigation up to
indictment of a 10 defendant mortgage fraud case before assigning it to others
prosecutors in the office.
17. Teaching: What courses have you taught? For each course, state the title, the institution
at which you taught the course, the years in which you taught the course, and describe
briefly the subject matter of the course and the major topics taught. If you have a
syllabus of each course, provide four (4) copies to the committee.
Throughout my career I have lectured to law enforcement agencies and taught parts of
courses at the National Advocacy Center. I have also given lectures at the local
university and to some community groups upon request of various professors, but I have
never taught a course for any institution.

18. Deferred Income! Future Benefits: List the sources, amounts and dates of all
anticipated receipts from deferred income arrangements, stock, options, uncompleted
contracts and other future benefits which you expect to derive from previous business
relationships, professional services, firm memberships, former employers, clients or
customers. Describe the arrangements you have made to be compensated in the future
for any financial or business interest.
The only future benefits I expect to receive are from a federal government retirement plan
and a State of Alaska retirement plan.
19. Outside Commitments During Service: Do you have any plans, commitments, or
agreements to pursue outside employment, with or without compensation, during your
service with the court? If so, explain.
None.
20. Sources of Income: List sources and amounts of all income received during the calendar
year preceding your nomination and for the current calendar year, including all salaries,
fees, dividends, interest, gifts, rents, royalties, licensing fees, honoraria, and other items
exceeding $500 or more (if you prefer to do so, copies ofthe financial disclosure report,
required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, may be substituted here).
My financial disclosure report is attached.
21. Statement of Net Worth: Please complete the attached financial net worth statement in
detail (add schedules as called for).
See attached net worth statement.
22. Potential Conflicts of Interest:
a. Identify the family members or other persons, parties, affiliations, pending and
categories of litigation, financial arrangements or other factors that are likely to
present potential conflicts-of-interest when you first assume the position to which
you have been nominated. Explain how you would address any such conflict if it
were to arise.
I am not aware of any conflicts of interest. If a future conflict of interest arose, I
would recuse myself and!or the office on any obvious conflict after consultation
with the DOJ Office of General Counsel. I would further seek advice from both
the office PRAO advisor and the Office of General Counsel on any matter that I
deemed could appear to raise a claim of conflict of interest. In connection with
the nomination process, I have consulted with the Office of Government Ethics
and the Department of Justice's designated agency ethics official to identify
potential conflicts of interest. Any potential conflict of interest will be resolved in
accordance with the terms of an ethics agreement that I have entered with the
Department's designated agency ethics official.
b. Explain how you will resolve any potential conflict of interest, including the
procedure you will follow in determining these areas of concern.

In the event of a potential conflict of interest, I will consult with the ethics
officials for the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Department of Justice.
23. Pro Bono Work: An ethical consideration under Canon 2 of the American Bar
Association's Code of Professional Responsibility calls for "every lawyer, regardless of
professional prominence or professional workload, to find some time to participate in
serving the disadvantaged." Describe what you have done to fulfill these responsibilities,
listing specific instances and the amount of time devoted to each. If you are not an
attorney, please use this opportunity to report significant charitable and volunteer work
you may have done.
When I first arrived in Alaska I signed up for the Bar Association pro bono program. I
was assigned to represent a woman in a consumer bankruptcy matter. By the time I had
completed that matter for her, I had become an Assistant District Attorney. Due to an
ADA's varying trial schedule I no longer felt I could continue pro bono work. I further
felt that it created conflicts with my job as a prosecutor and consulted with my supervisor
at that time about the issue. Instead of pro bono legal work, I have contributed volunteer
time to outdoor recreation programs such as the Anchorage Ski Club and the Anchorage
Park Commission.

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