Source: Office of United States Attorneys
SAN FRANCISCO – Craig H. Missakian was sworn in this morning as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg administered the oath of office.
Mr. Missakian was appointed as United States Attorney by Attorney General Pam Bondi pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546.
“It is an immense honor to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. I’m humbled to have this opportunity to return to public service and to work on behalf of the residents of this remarkable district, and I thank Attorney General Bondi. I am committed to working with the talented men and women of this Office and our law enforcement partners to protect public safety, tackle violent crime, including crimes committed by violent offenders in the country illegally, combat investment and elder fraud, safeguard the district’s technology and critical infrastructure, and uphold the rule of law,” said United States Attorney Missakian. “I also want to thank Acting U.S. Attorney Patrick Robbins for his leadership and his service.”
Mr. Missakian has extensive experience as a federal and state prosecutor, having served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California from 2001 to 2010 and as a Deputy District Attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office from 1994 to 1997. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Missakian handled multiple high-profile public corruption, organized crime, and cybercrime cases. Mr. Missakian and his co-counsel secured a conviction and multiple guilty pleas in United States v. Chi Mak, an espionage case involving an engineer who over several decades stole classified and highly sensitive U.S. military secrets for the People’s Republic of China. He received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for his work on the case. Mr. Missakian also led a multi-year investigation into a nationwide health care fraud scheme involving over $100 million in fraudulent Medicare claims.
From 2014 to 2016, Mr. Missakian worked as Deputy Chief Counsel on the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi’s investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans.
In addition to Mr. Missakian’s long career in public service, he worked in private practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, qui tam litigation, employment, real estate, and entertainment.
United States Attorney Missakian earned a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the University of Southern California and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.