Mary K. Butler

Mary K. Butler is an honors graduate of Vassar College and the University of Wisconsin Law School.  She was a lawyer in private civil practice with the Chicago law firm of Hopkins and Sutter for six years before joining the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Southern District of Florida in Miami in the fall of 1987.  As an Assistant United States Attorney, Mary worked primarily in the areas of white collar crime and corruption until December, 1999.  She also served as Chief of the Corruption Section from June, 1997 through February, 1998.  In April, 2000, she was temporarily assigned to serve as Senior Associate Counsel for the Independent Counsel Investigation of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in Washington, D.C.  In December, 1999, Mary became a trial attorney in the Public Integrity Section at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

In her career, Ms. Butler has prosecuted a Mayor, a City Manager, City Council Members and County Commissioners, a bank president, lobbyists and other businessmen and women on corruption-related offenses, including: bribery and obstruction of justice, honest services wire and mail fraud, theft of government funds and federal program fraud.  She also prosecuted a federal grand juror who leaked information and several federal and local law enforcement officers who took bribes, extorted money, stole drugs and money, smuggled drugs, bought child pornography and used unreasonable force.  This list does not include many more investigations that did not result in prosecutions.