Anne Weismann currently serves as chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government. CREW uses the law as a tool to force officials to act ethically and lawfully and to bring unethical conduct to the public’s attention. As chief counsel Ms. Weismann has been responsible for many precedent setting cases on behalf of CREW, focusing particularly on transparency in government.

Prior to joining CREW, Ms. Weismann served as deputy chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, where she had responsibility for all of the Bureau’s telecommunications matters. Before that, she worked in the of the Department of Justice where for many years she served as an assistant branch director with supervisory responsibility over banking litigation, housing litigation, and from 1995 through 2002 all government information litigation. Prior to that she worked in the Solicitor’s Office of the Department of Labor.

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