The Importance of Local Elections with Mimi Rocah

This episode is with Mimi Rocah in which we discuss the recent Supreme Court decision involving Trump's taxes, Mimi's recent election to become the District Attorney of Westchester, New York, and the importance of local elections to effect change.
Mimi Rocah is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving from February 2001 until October 2017. As an AUSA, Mimi was involved in the prosecution of organized crime, gun traffickers, corrupt public officials, narcotics dealers, sex traffickers, and child predators. In 2011, under President Obama, Mimi was promoted by US Attorney Preet Bharara as Chief of the Westchester Division for the Department of Justice. Mimi served as primary liaison with law enforcement agencies and other prosecutorial offices such as the Westchester District Attorney’s office, and coordinated and co-chaired multi-county task forces on specific issues such as human trafficking and the opioid overdose epidemic. Since 201...

This episode is with Mimi Rocah in which we discuss the recent Supreme Court decision involving Trump's taxes, Mimi's recent election to become the District Attorney of Westchester, New York, and the importance of local elections to effect change.

Mimi Rocah is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving from February 2001 until October 2017. As an AUSA, Mimi was involved in the prosecution of organized crime, gun traffickers, corrupt public officials, narcotics dealers, sex traffickers, and child predators. In 2011, under President Obama, Mimi was promoted by US Attorney Preet Bharara as Chief of the Westchester Division for the Department of Justice. Mimi served as primary liaison with law enforcement agencies and other prosecutorial offices such as the Westchester District Attorney’s office, and coordinated and co-chaired multi-county task forces on specific issues such as human trafficking and the opioid overdose epidemic. Since 2017, Rocah has been Pace University School of Law's Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice and a Legal Analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. Most recently, Mimi ran to become the District Attorney in Westchester New York, and based on the election results available now, Mimi is expected to win the election with huge margins!

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