John Flannery

John is listed in "Who's Who in America", and is a regular guest commentator in print, tv , and radio on law and politics including MSNBC, CNN, & FOX.

John is a former federal prosecutor from the Southern District of NY who handled widely publicized criminal investigations and prosecutions that ran the gamut from securities fraud to a mob prison break, the bribery of Congressman Dan Flood by a rabbi, the federally funded summer feeding scandal in the South Bronx, and heroin-trafficking by major organized crime figures including "Matty" Madonna.

In private practice at the mid-town Manhattan law firm of Poletti Friedin Prashker Feldman & Gartner (founded by FDR Jr.), John represented all the airlines in the Air Traffic Controllers Strike in 1981, and negotiated a settlement for the Airlines amounting to $28,869,000.00.

John served twice on Capitol Hill. On the Senate side as Special Counsel to the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee (appointed by Chairman Strom Thurmond) to investigate Quadaffi's efforts to subvert American foreign policy), and then as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Labor Committee (appointed by Chairman Orrin Hatch to investigate the confirmation hearings of former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan).

On the House side, John served again as Special Counsel, investigating the mob's influence in the Laborers International Union. His most challenging assignment on the Hill, however, was his work on the historic Impeachment proceedings of President William Jefferson Clinton (for the democratic minority).

John's criminal defense and appellate practice, at the federal and state level, focused on white collar cases (but not exclusively).

John's civil practice includes complex fraud and contract litigation involving labor, land use, employment, contract, corporate entities (whether it's formation, or dissolution), buiness hi-tech, IP, Sarbanes Oxley, and a general civil practice

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District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

ID Number: 369907

Since 1985

New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

Since 1973

Virginia

Virginia State Bar

ID Number: 22742

Since 1983

West Virginia

West Virginia State Bar

ID Number: 11220

Since 2010

Principal

Campbell Flannery

2002 - Current

Special Justice, Civil Committment Hearings

Virginia Circuit Court, Loudoun County

2018 - 2018

Special Counsel & Chief of Staff

U.S. Congress, Rep. Zoe Lofgren

1999 - 2001

Special Counsel, Minority, Impeachment of Pres. Bill Clinton

U.S. House of Reps, Judiciary Committee

1998 - 1999

Special Counsel, and Project Director, American Worker Project

U.S. House of Reps, Education and Labor Committee

1997 - 1998

Special Counsel

U.S. House of Reps, Judiciary Committee

1996 - 1997

Principal

The Flannery Law Firm

1984 - 1996

Candidate for Congress -

Democratic Party

1983 - 1984

I won the Democratic nomination, but the voters preferred I remain a trial lawyer instead; I won 95,000 votes in the General Election - still not enough.

Special Counsel

U.S. Senate Committee on Labor

1982 - 1983

I conducted an investigation of whether the FBI purposefully withheld information about Raymond Donovan's mob connections at this confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Labor.

Senior Associate

Poletti Freidin Prashker Feldman & Gartner

1979 - 1983

While at Polettie Freidin, founded by FDR Jr, I accepted several appointments as Special Counsel to US Senate Committees.

Special Counsel

U.S. Senate, Committee on Judiciary

1982 - 1982

I conducted an investigation of Qaddafi's effort to bribe Carter Administration Officials to subvert American policy against the export of C-130 transports to terrorist states.

Assistant U.S. Attorney

U.S. Attorney, SDNY, Criminal Division

1974 - 1979

Pro Se Law Clerk

U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

1972 - 1974

George Washington University-Virginia Campus

M.S. (2002) | Information Science

2000 - 2002

Columbia Law School

J.D. (1972) | Law

1969 - 1972

Honors: Managing Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review

Columbia University

B.S. (1969) | Engineering

1967 - 1969

Honors: Honor Society

Activities: Varsity Swimming, Student Government

Fordham University

B.S. (1968) | Physics

1964 - 1968

Honors: Scholarships

Activities: Student Government, WFUV Radio, Varsity Swimming

West Virginia Bar

Member

2010 - Current

District of Columbia Bar

Member

1985 - Current

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)

Member, and former Board Member

1985 - Current

Loudoun County Bar Assocation

Member

1985 - Current

Virginia Bar

Member

1983 - Current

Pain in America - and how our government makes it worse.

Ithaca Manor Press LLC

January 22, 2007

"Inside the Belly of the Beast" - listen - https://vimeo.com/368922186, Johns Hopkins Osher Lecture, Johns Hopkins

October 24, 2019

Osher Series

The official title of the address was - “In the Belly of the Beast" - basically a look at the Trump debacle. I was honored to join earlier lecture guest honorees including Martha Raddatz, Richard Wolffe, Chris Hayes, Steve & Cokie Roberts, Judy Woodruff, Chuck Todd, Peter Baker, Eleanor Clift, Chris Matthews, Michelle Bernard, and Marvin & Bernard Kalb. It was a mixed media presentation. This is the audio portion of the presentation - and runs about 1 hour 40 minutes. Alan White, the Event Coordinator and his Staff provided this wonderful opportunity. I do believe information is the inoculation into the body politic that will finally cure this constitutional crisis. The format allowed coverage of several subjects of general concern. John P. Flannery - Jonflan@aol.com. Listen - https://vimeo.com/368922186