Office of General Counsel: Four Years by the Numbers Provided legal advice to Bureaus and Advised on communications and administrative law issues arising in Offices, reviewing over 650 hundreds of the over 5,300 staff- Commission-level orders. level actions. AgendaReview Responded to thousands of ethics Worked with OMD to process nearly inquiries, vetting hundreds of 3,000 FOIA requests, cutting the candidates for FCC employment and FCC average turnaround time nearly in advisory committees, and reviewing half (23 to 12 days). thousands of financial disclosure General Law General reports. Transactions, Bankruptcy, and Fraud Accomplishments Transactions Bankruptcy Fraud " Reviewed, analyzed, and advised " Litigated and managed more than " Assisted with prosecuting over 28 the Commission on more than 35 120 bankruptcies involving FCC qui tam cases and investigations applicationsfor transactions regulated assets. under the False Claims Act and/or valued in excess of $100 billion. the Communications Act. " Recovered over $5.1 million for the " Thoroughly examined T-Mobile/ U.S. Treasury and Federal programs. " Recovered over $213 million for Sprint applications during the Universal Service Fund. seventeen-month review. " Negotiated resolutions to preserve service for hundreds of Rural Health Care providers in numerous states. 2 Litigation Accomplishments " Won (in whole or substantial part) 28 of 31 appeals that proceeded to final judgment (90%). Including PSSI (C-Band); City of Portland (wireless infrastructure); Mozilla (Restoring Internet Freedom); Citizens Telecommunications (Business Data Services): Free Press (UHF Discount). " Successfully petitioned for Supreme Court review of Third Circuit s Prometheus decision. " Successfully opposed 10 of 11 stay requests. " Successfully opposed 8 mandamus petitions. " Filed 6 amicus briefs/statements of interest on issues of concern to the Commission. RF issues (Cohen, City of Berkeley); T-Mobile-Sprint merger (NY v. Deutsche Telekom); AT&T-Time Warner merger (US v. AT&T); TCPA judicial review (PDR Network); and state regulation of VoIP (Charter Advanced Services). 3 Administrative Law Accomplishments Agenda Review General Law Reviewed actions integral to the Commission s " strategic plan, including those Internal agency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including employee safety and telework " incorporating economic analysis more fully into " Advising on non-APA rulemaking process issues, Commission rulemakings including ex parte rules, confidentiality, environmental " addressing spectrum needs for and land use and historic preservation, Paperwork Reduction Act, restrictions on rapid deployment of 5G mobile service Regulatory Flexibility Act, and Congressional Review " accommodating conflicting satellite, wireless, Act broadcast, and unlicensed uses of spectrum " Providing advice on fiscal and procurement issues " curtailing abusive robocalling and spoofing practices related to lapses in appropriations, FCC auctions, the " providing high speed fixed and mobile broadband Universal Service Fund, and the move to the new services to rural and tribal areas headquarters " ensuring reliability of 911, EAS, WEA, and other critical " Privacy and information security advice for major IT public safety services projects and the Lifeline program. " addressing national security concerns raised by foreign ownership or supply of communications facilities and equipment 4 OGCers, 2017-Present (Slide 1 of 2) Claude Aiken Shannon Hyatt Sarah Citrin Rachel May Larry Atlas James (Jim) Bird Natalie Martinez Adam Crews Christopher Morgan Ben Bartolome Ashley Boizelle Karen Onyeije Megan Davis Scott Noveck Malena Barzilai Michael Carlson Carlette Smith Matthew Dunne Grey Pash Tracy Bloom Margaret Drake Lucinda Sprowl Lily Farel Eldoris Pressley Deborah Broderson Michele Ellison Max Staloff Maureen Flood Melissa Raggi Troy Byers Kristine Fargotstein Jennifer Tatel Dwayne Hamblin William (Bill) Scher Patrick Carney Darren Fernandez John Williams Susan Launer Pamela Smith Theresa (Terry) David Gossett Lori Alexiou Jacob (Jake) Lewis Thaila Sundaresan Cavanaugh Matthew Collins Vivette Hart James (Jim) Carr Kim Mattos Richard Welch Susan Aaron Neil Dellar 5 OGCers, 2017-Present (Slide 2 of 2) William (Bill) Dever Valerie Hill Joshua Kranzberg Linda Oliver Anjali Singh Thomas (Tom) Driscoll David Horowitz William Layton Tjuana Price Marilyn Sonn Stephen Duall David Hu Elizabeth Lyle Joel Rabinovitz Jeff Steinberg Nathan Eagan Frank Inserra Marcus Maher William (Bill) Richardson Sarah Stone Jessica Easton Jane Jackson Richard (Rick) Mallen Christopher Santini Timothy Strachan William Freedman Aliza Katz Lee Martin Laurence Schecker Elliot Tarloff Kathleen Fulp Andrea Kearney Keith McCrickard David Senzel Joanne Wall Jane Halprin Sharon Kelley Brendan McTaggart Royce Sherlock Richard Williams Ellen Herr Andrea Kelly Bahareh Moradi Paula Silberthau Ryan Yates Rhonda Hill Douglas (Doug) Klein Lauren Northrop Derek Yeo David Konczal Chin Yoo 6