Thursday, April 13, 2023

John Larry Smith aka Jack Smith special prosecutor

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John L. Smith is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) as an assistant United States Attorney, acting United States Attorney, and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.

In November 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith an independent special counsel, responsible for overseeing two preexisting DOJ criminal investigations into former president Donald Trump: an investigation regarding Trump's role in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack and an investigation into mishandling of government records, including classified documents.

Smith grew up in Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse.[2][3] In 1987, he graduated from Liverpool High School[4] where he played football and baseball.[5] He earned his Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Oneonta[6][7] and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1994.

In 2015, Smith became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, at Nashville.[13][10] He became the Acting United States Attorney in March 2017 upon the resignation of David Rivera, and resigned effective September 2017 after the nomination of Donald Q. Cochran.[14] Smith became the vice president and head of litigation for Hospital Corporation of America in 2017.[15]

On May 7, 2018, Smith was named to a four-year term as chief prosecutor for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, investigating war crimes committed in the Kosovo War,[8][9][13] including the case of Salih Mustafa.[16] He took up the post on September 11, 2018, and was appointed to a second term on May 8, 2022.

Smith is a competitive triathlete despite not becoming a swimmer until he was in his mid-thirties.[23][24] In July 2011, he married Katy Chevigny,[25] a documentary filmmaker[24] known for Becoming, an award-winning 2020 documentary of Michelle Obama. They have a daughter.[24] The couple has been living in the Netherlands since 2018

His wife is a film maker .... 

Katy Gale Chevigny (born 1968 or 1969)[1] is an American documentary filmmaker. She has produced or directed more than 30 documentary films and won a number of awards for her work.

Chevigny was born in 1968 or 1969 to Bell Gale Chevigny and Paul Chevigny.[1] Her father taught law at New York University and as of 2001 led the university's human rights clinic. Her mother taught literature at Purchase College and edited Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (1999).[1] Chevigny graduated cum laude from Yale University[

Chevigny was a social worker who started out in film in Chicago and then moved to New York City to start Big Mouth Productions in 1997 with a friend from college, Julia Pimsleur.[2] Pimsleur left the company in 2002.[2] As of 2004 Chevigny's partner in the company was Dallas Brennan.[2] As of 2022 Marilyn Ness had joined the company.[3]

With Kirsten Johnson she co-directed Deadline (2004), which won a Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award.[4] The film, an examination of Illinois governor George Ryan's decision to commute the death sentences of everyone awaiting execution in the state, was purchased and broadcast on Dateline NBC, a rare example of a major commercial network acquiring an independent documentary.[5][6][7][a]

Chevigny directed Election Day which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2007 and was broadcast on POV in 2008.[citation needed]

She co-directed with Ross Kauffman the feature-length documentary E-Team, which won Best Cinematography at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival[9] and was released as a Netflix Original in October 2014.[10] She produced the 2014 documentary 1971.[6]

She directed one of six segments of Hard Earned, which aired on Al Jazeera America in 2015 and won an Alfred I. duPont Award.[11]

With Kimberly Reed, Chevigny co-produced Dark Money (2018). PBS purchased distribution rights to the film, planning to include it in the docu-series POV.[12]

Film work
My Two Months in Harlem (2022)
The First Step (2021)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2021)
Becoming (2020)
Charm City (2018)
Don't Be Nice (2018)
Dark Money (2018)
Sasaba (2017)
Trapped (2016)
Cameraperson (2016)
Hard Earned, episode 2 (2016)[4]
1971 (2014)
E-Team (2014)[16][17]
The Internet Must Go (2013)
(A)sexual (2011)[4]
Pushing the Elephant (2011)[6][4]
Camp Victory, Afghanistan (2010)
The Teacher (2009)
Election Day (2007)
Arctic Son (2006)[6]
Deadline (2004)[6]
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today (2001)[4]
Nuyorican Dream (2001)[6]
Brother Born Again (2001)[6]
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America (2001)[6]
Innocent Until Proven Guilty (2001)[6]
Television work
Great Performances
Independent Lens
POV
Personal life
Chevigny married Jonathan Chen in 2001.[1]

In July 2011, she married Jack Smith, a prosecutor working for the U.S. Department of Justice.[18] They have a daughter.[19] The couple has been living in the Netherlands since 2018.[20]

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