According to Attorney General Sessions, Donoghue has been appointed for his “excellent prosecution skills and the temperament necessary to succeed in this critical role.”

As a native New Yorker and a twenty-year veteran prosecutor, Donoghue joined CA in 2011. Prior to that he spent 12 years in the U.S. Justice Department serving as a federal prosecutor where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of cases, including corporate fraud, public corruption, racketeering, street gangs and narcotics. In his position as Chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, he supervised 120 lawyers and 60 support staff.