Juliet Sorensen

Juliet Sorensen is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago. She has prosecuted City of Chicago inspectors as part of Operation Crooked Code, a bribery investigation into Chicago’s Building and Zoning departments.[1][2] Between 1995 and 1997, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco.[3] Sorensen is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. Sorensen is the daughter of Theodore C. Sorensen (Ted Sorensen), the former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and the author of Kennedy and Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation.[4] She is married to Benjamin Jones,[5] an economist and professor at the Kellogg School of Management.

Sorensen prosecuted Jean-Marie Vianney Mudahinyuka (a.k.a.“Zuzu”), a leader of the Rwandan genocide.[6] The case is cited as one success of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement No Safe Haven initiative against human rights violators.[7]

In March 2009, Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit stated that Sorensen made "a series of improper statements" in the trial court case of U.S. v. Farinella, which was appealed as 558 F.3d 695.[8][9] A jury had found a Chicago businessman guilty of fraud and misbranding for relabeling 1.6 million bottles of salad dressing to extend their “best when purchased by” date, then reselling the bottles.[10] Judge Posner found that relabeling “best when purchased by” dates was not a crime.[11]

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  1. ^ Coen, Jeff (10 September 2009). "Chicago worker’s bribery trial opens...". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/sep/10/local/chi-crooked-code-trialsep10. 
  2. ^ Korecki, Natasha (4 December 2009). "City Inspector Accepted Bribes, Jury Told". Chicago Sun Times (Chicago). http://cbs2chicago.com/local/city.inspector.trial.2.1349429.html. 
  3. ^ Wetzler, Cynthia (14 September 1997). "Peace Corps Worker From Pound Ridge Tells of Muslim Life". New York Times (New York). http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/14/nyregion/peace-corps-worker-from-pound-ridge-tells-of-muslim-life.html. 
  4. ^ Sorensen, Theodore (2008). Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History. Berlin: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060798718. 
  5. ^ "Weddings". New York Times (New York). 20 August 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/style/weddings-juliet-sorensen-benjamin-jones.html. 
  6. ^ Terry, Don (10 December 2005). "Suburban America: Hiding place for thousands of war criminals?". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). http://www.preventgenocide.org/news-monitor/2005july1.htm. 
  7. ^ http://judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/10-06-09%20Morton%20Testimony.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.mwe.com/info/news/farinella.pdf Text of opinion in U.S. v. Farinella, 558 F. 3d 695 (7th Cir. 2009)
  9. ^ Sachdev, Ameet (16 March 2009). "Posner tosses out salad-dressing verdict with unusually stern words for prosecutor". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/16/business/chi-posner-rips-prosecutor-mar16. 
  10. ^ Sachdev, Ameet (26 June 2008). "Wholesale distributor pleads guilty to wire fraud in salad dressing scheme". Chicago Tribune (Chicago). http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-06-26/business/0806250888_1_salad-dressing-expiration-dates-count-of-wire-fraud. 
  11. ^ Merriner, Jim (18 March 2009). "Judge Posner Checks Patrick Fitzgerald". Chicago Daily Observer (Chicago). http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/judge-posner-checks-patrick-fitzgerald/.