February 9, 2001
Trenton,
NJ — Robert DeGeorge, Esquire was sworn in today as deputy first assistant
prosecutor, major crimes, for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office,
Prosecutor Daniel G. Giaquinto announced.
Middlesex
County Superior Court Judge Frederick P. DeVesa, a long-time friend of DeGeorge,
performed the swearing in ceremony at 4 p.m. in the Mercer County Courthouse’s
ceremonial courtroom.
"Bob DeGeorge is an outstanding
investigative and trial attorney with great managerial talents.
He has keen insight on how to run an organization,” Giaquinto said.
“With his assets and legal experience, Bob was tailor-made for this
important supervisory position.”
In his new role as deputy first
assistant prosecutor, DeGeorge will be responsible for the Homicide, Child
Abuse/Sexual Assault, Megan’s Law, Economic Crime/Insurance Fraud, Arson and
Bias Crimes units.
DeGeorge
brings a wealth of experience to the prosecutor’s office.
Over the last two decades, he has intermingled positions at the state
Division of Criminal Justice with work in private practice.
Most recently, DeGeorge was employed in private practice in Trenton,
where his focus was civil and criminal litigation involving personal injury,
employment law and white-collar crime. Some
of his major clients included the Claridge Casino Hotel and the State of New
Jersey.
As
deputy attorney general for the state, DeGeorge was assigned to the Organized
Crime and Special Prosecutions section from 1974-1978.
He was promoted to section chief in charge of the Drug Diversion Unit in
1978, and promoted again in 1979 to chief in charge of the Organized Crime and
Special Prosecutions section.
DeGeorge
left the state in 1981 to pursue interests in private practice.
During the next nine years, he received an appointment as a special
designated counsel to the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles, began to
concentrate his practice in wrongful employment discharge and discrimination
cases, and was hired to work on several independent counsel matters with Edwin
H. Stier, Esquire. Some of these
matters involved Three Mile Island, Oyster Creek and Florida Power and Light
Nuclear Facilities and United Medical Center, with investigations ranging from
corporate misconduct to whistleblower allegations.
In
1990, DeGeorge returned to the state Division of Criminal Justice as assistant
attorney general in charge of the Narcotics Racketeering Bureau, Department of
Law & Public Safety and co-director of the statewide Narcotics Task Force.
He remained there until 1993, when he returned to private practice.
Prior
to college, DeGeorge served in the United States Army from 1964-1966 as an
intelligence analyst for Vietnam intelligence operations.
He is a graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, NJ
and a recipient of the Mercer County Bar Association Scholarship.
He also earned his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers, where he graduated
with high honors and distinction in philosophy.
Throughout
his career, DeGeorge has lectured extensively to prosecutorial and law
enforcement agencies.