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CRAIG H. MISSAKIAN was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California for over 7 years. He spent the bulk of his time in the public corruption unit, where he handled a wide range of prosecutions involving everything from labor union corruption and export cases to health care fraud and money laundering. He was assigned to the Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section where he handled complex intrusion cases, piracy and counterfeiting, and FECA and DMCA prosecutions. Mr. Missakian charged an Internet blogger with leaking tracks from the  then upcoming Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy.  Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office he was a candidate for State Assembly, a Deputy District Attorney, and a lawyer in private practice.  He graduated from the University of Southern California and Georgetown Law School.

Craig Missakian is a well-known trial lawyer and former state and federal prosecutor. During his 15 years in law enforcement, he earned national and international attention for prosecutions that included terrorism and environmental crimes, software piracy, organized crime, and public corruption. His cases have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the Washington Post, the National Enquirer, and many other publications. He also taught at the U.S.C. Gould School of Law.

Mr. Missakian’s work as Assistant U.S. Attorney included the conviction of Martin Ludlow, then-head of the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and a former Los Angeles City Councilman, for embezzling funds from a local labor union.

He stood up for the nation’s war heroes when, in the first case of its” kind, he prosecuted a member of a Southern California water board under the Stolen Valor Act for falsely claiming to have won the Congressional Medal of Honor – a case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court.  In 2014, he was asked to serve as one of the lead lawyers on the House Select Committee on Benghazi where he helped direct the investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that took the lives of four Americans. After working in Washington, D.C. on the Benghazi investigation for 2 ½ years he returned to his native Southern California where he now practices law.

His Washington DC  legal experience positioned Mr. Missakian to provide expert commentary on the anticipated smoking guns in the Mueller Report.  Adam Schiff and the Left were salivating, certain that report would provide the mountain of evidence on Russia Collusion they needed for the prosecution and incarceration of President Trump.  How did that turn out for the Left?