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Pat re-entered private practice in 2005 after an 11-year stint with the Department of Justice.  In 1994, he served as associate independent counsel in the Whitewater Investigation under Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske, Jr.  From 1995 to 2002, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.  As a member of the Southern District’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, he investigated and prosecuted complex securities fraud schemes involving financial statement fraud, insider trading, and market manipulation.  From 2002 to 2005, Pat was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of the Northern Mariana Islands.  He received the Department of Justice’s Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and is a two-time recipient of the Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney.

Rodney served as an Assistant US Attorney from 2008 to 2015 in the District of New Jersey and in the Northern District of California.  As an AUSA, he prosecuted a range of offenses, including wire and mail fraud, honest services fraud, export control violations, and public corruption.  In the Special Prosecutions and National Security Unit in San Francisco, he led long-term complex investigations involving a number of international and national security matters.  Rodney has tried to jury verdict numerous high-profile federal trials and has been recognized for exceptional work by several federal law enforcement agencies, namely the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the US Marshals Service, the Diplomatic Security Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  He also received the Special Achievement Award from the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Rodney clerked for US District Judge Jane Boyle for the Northern District of Texas and US Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day for the District of Maryland.

From 2016 to 2017, Brian served as an officer with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where he focused on regulatory and ethics matters.

From 2011 to 2012, Brian clerked for Judge Richard J. Holwell, and, after Judge Holwell retired from judicial service, for Judge William H. Pauley III, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.