Michael E. Horowitz currently serves as Chief of Staff to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. In that position, Mr. Horowitz oversees the Office of Administration and the Office of Policy and Legislation, and provides advice and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General on all legal, policy and administrative issues facing the Criminal Division. Mr. Horowitz also has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division. In that position, Mr. Horowitz supervised the operations of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Task Section, the Fraud Section and the Campaign Financing Task Force.

Prior to coming to Main Justice, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, having served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division and the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. Mr. Horowitz has received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for his performance in a significant public corruption case, and he has served as an instructor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Education, the United States Department of State, and the New York City Police Department.