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By Joshua Marks
Think organized crime, and Hollywood fare like The Godfather or Goodfellas might come to mind. But for Department of Justice trial attorney Adam Small, getting the bad guys isn’t fantasy.
It’s all in a day’s work.
The 33-year-old born-and-bred Baltimorean joined the DOJ’s Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Gang Section in the fall of 2011 and has been traveling the country investigating and trying cases ever since.
Small lives in Silver Spring with his wife Rachel Gildiner, director of Gather the Jews, an organization that connects young Jewish adults to social, religious and learning opportunities in the Washington area, and their two children, Samuel, 5, and Vera, 3.
A 2004 graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in history, Small taught history and English for two years at an independent school in northern New Jersey before attending Georgetown Law School, graduating in 2009. Small then clerked for a United States District Court judge in Baltimore.
What is it like working at the DOJ?
It’s good. It’s busy. I’m a trial attorney, which means that my job is to travel around the country assisting United States attorneys who are working on organized crime and gang cases in their districts. We’re considered subject-matter experts and we help in any way we can. Usually we join a case early on in the investigation and we help prepare all the different documents that go into an investigation, whether that’s grand jury subpoenas, or search warrants, or orders to get cell phone information, that type of thing. We interview witnesses, we put witnesses in the grand jury, which is part of the process to indict a case. Ultimately, if the evidence is there, we’ll seek an indictment and continue to work on the case all the way through resolution, whether that’s by a plea agreement or a trial.
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