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Undergraduate
B.A., St. Francis College, 1972
Law School
J.D., Seton Hall Law School, 1979
Walter F. Timpone received a Bachelor's degree from St. Francis College in New York in 1972, a Master's degree in Special Education from New York University in 1974, and his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1979. He is the former law clerk to the late Honorable Vincent P. Biunno, United States District Court, District of New Jersey. He was previously associated with the firm of Townley & Updike in New York City before joining the United States Attorney's Office in Newark where he served for eleven years. His major accomplishments at the United States Attorney's Office were as the Chief of Special Prosecutions, where he led the prosecutions and convictions of nearly twenty-five public officials for corruption and fraud against the public. Mr. Timpone has served as the first Federal Election Monitor in Passaic County where he was charged with ensuring the voting rights of the County’s Hispanic citizens and the County’s compliance with Federal and State consent orders. He has also served, at the appointment of N.J. Attorney General John Farmer, on the panel charged by Governor Whitman with investigating problems surrounding the Department of Motor Vehicles Inspection Program. He presently acts as ombudsman to the United States Department of Defense overseeing a Defense Department contractor who entered a guilty plea concerning failed parts prepared for inclusion in Patriot missiles. Mr. Timpone has extensive trial experience, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York as well as the Federal District Courts of New Jersey and the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Timpone presently acts as an Associate General Executive Board Attorney for the LIUNA Union where he investigates, charges, and takes to hearing union members for violations of the union's constitution and ethics procedures. As a result of these experiences, his practice is now concentrated in the areas of white collar criminal work, corporate internal investigations, labor law for labor unions and complex civil litigation. He has also been named as a Super Lawyer in New Jersey for 2008. | 