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== Early life and education ==
Craig Morford grew up in [[Schenectady, New York]] graduated in 1981 with an [[Economics]] degree from [[Hope College]]. He was a member of the Cosmopolitan Fraternity. He graduated from [[Valparaiso University School of Law]] in Indiana in 1984.<ref name="pdextra">{{
== Career ==
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As an [[Internal Revenue Service]] attorney, he helped win a civil tax evasion judgment in 1987 against [[James Traficant]], elected to Congress in 1984, for failing to pay taxes on $163,000 received from mob figures. Traficant had been acquitted on related criminal charges.<ref name="pdextra"/>
After joining the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in Cleveland, Morford helped convict the nation's largest pornography distributor, [[Reuben Sturman]], on tax evasion charges in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/Porn-King-Reuben-Sturman-Escapes-From-Desert-Prison-Camp/id-4dbd6cea4ff79dc95cde68da6d813d25l |title=Porn 'King' Reuben Sturman Escapes from Desert Prison Camp |access-date=2014-03-20 |archive-date=2014-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320210137/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/Porn-King-Reuben-Sturman-Escapes-From-Desert-Prison-Camp/id-4dbd6cea4ff79dc95cde68da6d813d25l |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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In 2002, Morford was lead prosecutor in the second criminal case against Traficant, then in his ninth term as a Democratic Congress member from Youngstown, Ohio. Traficant was convicted on charges of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in prison.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090201497.html |title=Former Congressman James Traficant Is Released After 7 Years in Prison |first=Mary |last=Jordan |date=September 3, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=2022-07-02}}</ref>
In 2004, Morford led a court-ordered Justice Department review of allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in a major terrorism case that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001. Morford's report concluded that prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence – e-mails, photographs, witness statements and other material – that cast doubt on the government's case. In a rare admission of error, the Justice Department asked a judge to dismiss charges against two convicted defendants.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/national/03terror.html|title=Judge Reverses Convictions in Detroit 'Terrorism' Case|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 September 2004|last1=Hakim|first1=Danny}}</ref>
In 2006, Morford led a task force that prosecuted Toledo coin dealer Tom Noe, a Republican fundraiser convicted of stealing from a rare-coin fund that he managed for the [[Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation]]. Then-Ohio Gov. [[Bob Taft]], a Republican, pleaded guilty in a separate state case to misdemeanor ethics charges for accepting gifts from Noe.<ref name="blog.cleveland.com">{{
Morford served briefly as U.S. Attorney in [[Detroit]] and [[Nashville]]. He was named acting Deputy Attorney General, the No. 2 position in the Justice Department, in July 2007, and mentioned as a possible nominee for Attorney General.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082800104.html |title=Sharp Questions Await Gonzales Successor |first=Lara Jakes |last=Jordan |date=August 28, 2007 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=2022-07-02}}</ref>
While acting Deputy Attorney General, Morford wrote what is referred to as the "Morford Memo" establishing new guidelines for how federal prosecutors select and use compliance monitors in [[corporate crime]] settlements.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/dag/morford-useofmonitorsmemo-03072008.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> The department had previously been criticized when then-U.S. Attorney [[Chris Christie]] required a company to name former Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] to a lucrative monitoring contract.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/washington/10justice.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title = Ashcroft Deal Brings Scrutiny in Justice Dept|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 10 January 2008|last1 = Shenon|first1 = Philip}}</ref>
In May, 2008, Morford joined [[Cardinal Health]], a large healthcare services company in Dublin, Ohio, and is currently Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, overseeing legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs.<ref>{{
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==External links==
* http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uskoubriti82802ind.pdf '''''US v. KARIM KOUBRITI, et al.''''', August 28, 2002.
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