Michael Bosworth

Michael Bosworth is Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated. Prior to his current position, he served as a Senior Fellow with the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU. From 2014 to the conclusion of the Obama Administration, Bosworth previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President. Immediately before joining the White House, he worked as Special Counsel to FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. Prior to that, he worked for nearly seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving at various times as Co-Chief of the Complex Frauds Unit and Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. He also served as a law clerk to three federal judges: Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the Second Circuit, and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York. Bosworth is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Among other honors, Bosworth has been named one of Washington D.C.'s Rising Stars by the National Law Journal, as well as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBT Bar Association; he has been included in Out Magazine's Out100 list of influential members of the LGBT community; and he has received awards including the J. Michael Bradford Award from the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys and the Prosecutor of the Year Award from the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.