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Viet D. Dinh Biography
Viet D. Dinh is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on February 22, 1968 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Viet D. Dinh (Vietnamese: Dinh Dong Phung Viet born on February 22, 1968) is an attorney and conservative scholar of law who served as the Assistant Attorney General in the United States from 2001 to 2003 under the administration of George W. Bush. Born in Saigon in the the former South Vietnam, he was the principal creator for the USA PATRIOT Act and is an ex-member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation.
Dinh graduated with the degree magna cumlaude at Harvard University in 1990 with an A.B. in Economics and Government. While at Harvard He was part of the Phoenix S.K. Club. Then he was a student at Harvard Law School, where He was a Class Marshal as well as one of the Olin Research Fellow at the School of Law and Economics as well as Bluebook editor for The Harvard Law Review, and earned the Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude in 1993.
Dinh is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His expertise lies in constitutional law, corporations law, and the law and economics of development. He is also currently Co-Director of the Asian Law & Policy Studies Program. He previously served as Co-Director of the Joint Program in Law and Business Administration, from 1998–99.
Dinh served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was confirmed in the Senate by a vote of 96 to 1, with the sole No vote coming from Hillary Clinton. As the official responsible for federal legal policy, Dinh worked with issues of illicit drugs, racial profiling in federal law enforcement, exploitation of children, human trafficking, DNA technology, gun violence, and civil and criminal justice procedural reform. Dinh was also involved in the selection and confirmation of 100 district and 23 appellate judges in his role representing the U.S. Department of Justice. After 9/11, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review of DOJ priorities, policies and practices, and played a key role in developing the USA PATRIOT Act and revising the Attorney General’s Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations.
Dinh was brought back to the father he had in 1982. In 1992, Dinh was reunited with one his sisters in an asylum camps in Hong Kong, a meeting that was filmed by the newsmagazine program Dateline NBC.
| Name | Viet D. Dinh |
| First Name | Viet |
| Last Name | Dinh |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Birthday | February 22 |
| Birth Year | 1968 |
| Place of Birth | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | Vietnam |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Nga Thu Nguyễn, Phong Dinh |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Jennifer Ashworth Dinh |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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In late 2003, he was one of a group of prominent U.S. security officials hired by ChoicePoint to advise the company on developing its government homeland security contracts.
Viet D. Dinh Net Worth
Viet D. Dinh is one of the richest Lawyer from Vietnam. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Viet D. Dinh's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His family was split up in 1975 after their father, Phong Dinh, was being detained as political prisoner in the home of his family’s war-ravaged country following the loss of Saigon. Dinh was released in 1978 and was a fugitive throughout Vietnam and was a fugitive when the mother of his son, Nga Thu Nguyen, along with his siblings, jumped in a boat with 85 others and headed out. for 12 consecutive days Dinh was trapped in a damaged 15-foot long boat, at one point without water or food. They ran into the Thai fishing group who gave fuel and food, and even helped to fix the boat, and directed towards the land. As they approached Malaysia they were met with shots fired by a patrol boat which was a warning to the Malaysians were not keen on to have them. The boat docked, but Dinh’s mother was aware that the port authorities would have them go out the following morning, so she snuck back to the boat on her own the night before using an axe as well as damaged her boat in order not to be taken back to it. After six months of being refugees in Malaysia Dinh’s family landed in Oregon in the month of November, 1978. They picked strawberries to earn low wages, then sent the money back to Dinh’s dad and sister who was hiding in Vietnam. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the damages forced his family to move to Fullerton.
Dinh was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. His family and he emigrated into the United States in 1978, three years after Vietnam had officially embraced communism. They initially moved to Portland, Oregon, but relocated into Fullerton, California, two years after. Dinh joined the newly-relaunched debate squad at Fullerton High School under the guidance of the guidance of coaches Gary Reed and Jacqueline Reedy as a senior. The coaches advised him to go to Harvard University.
After graduating from law school, Dinh served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during the 1994 Term.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Lawyer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In September 2006 Dinh received publicity for representing Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard director involved in the company’s pretexting scandal. The emails between Perkins and Larry Sonsini, a corporate lawyer involved with Board of Directors decisions for many Corporations were eventually forwarded to reporters and became public.
In 2006 he joined Kenneth Starr in challenging the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
It emerged after he was appointed to the board investigation that Dinh is godfather to one of Lachlan Murdoch’s children and friend of Lachlan since 2003. Further, in 1992, a decade before he met Lachlan, Dinh wrote of his sister, held in a Hong Kong refugee camp, in the New York Times, which led to NBC TV coverage and then to a series of articles in the South China Morning Post. The Post was owned by Rupert Murdoch, and Dinh’s articles there were credited with helping free his sister. The personal ties to Murdoch interests and family were debated as Dinh took the role in the phone-hacking investigation.
Dinh, along with fellow News Corp. board member, fellow lawyer, and Corporation executive Joel Klein, took over the investigation of the News of the World phone hacking affair and related Corporation issues in July, 2011, from News International UK Chief Executive, Rebekah Brooks. Brooks’ own possible involvement in the phone hacking scandal made her unable to continue as an impartial investigator. Tom Perkins, also on the News Corp. board, was one who recommended Dinh for the investigation role.
Who is Viet D. Dinh Dating?
According to our records, Viet D. Dinh married to Jennifer Ashworth Dinh. As of December 1, 2023, Viet D. Dinh’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Viet D. Dinh. You may help us to build the dating records for Viet D. Dinh!Dinh’s representative publications include Defending Liberty: Terrorism and Human Rights in the Helsinki Monitor, Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise in the Journal of Corporation Law, and Financial Sector Reform and Economic Development in Vietnam in Law and Policy in International Business. He published The USA Patriot Act: Preserving Life and Liberty in 2008. He published a piece of fiction in the Chicago Review in 2004.
Facts & Trivia
Viet Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Vietnam. Viet D. Dinh celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.
He currently resides in Washington, D.C., teaches at Georgetown University Law Center, and is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. In September 2016, Kirkland hired all of the attorneys at the firm Dinh founded, Bancroft PLLC.
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