Tara Lenich
| Tara Lenich | |
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| Occupation: | Federal prison consultant; mitigation specialist |
| Known for: | Founder, Liberty Advisors LLC; former Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney |
| Charges: | Illegal interception of communications (2 counts) |
| Sentence: | 1 year and 1 day (concurrent) |
| Facility: | FCI Danbury |
| Status: | Released |
Tara Lenich is an American federal prison consultant, mitigation specialist, and founder of Liberty Advisors LLC. Before founding the firm, she spent roughly a decade as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, rising to a supervisory role in the Kings County District Attorney's Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau.[1][2]
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Background
Lenich was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts and Wilton, Connecticut, earned a B.A. in Government from Colby College in 1997, and holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law.[2] She joined the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney's Office as an Assistant District Attorney and rose to a supervisory role in its Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, handling gang and gun-trafficking wiretap investigations.[1][3]
In 2017, Lenich pleaded guilty to two federal counts of illegal interception of communications, admitting she had forged judicial signatures onto fabricated wiretap orders to intercept calls and messages on two cellphones between 2015 and 2016.[3][4] She was sentenced in February 2018 to one year and one day in federal prison and served roughly ten months at FCI Danbury.[3][5] Lenich discusses this period openly as the origin of her consulting practice, describing conditions inside and her work tutoring and co-teaching Mock Trial while incarcerated.[2]
Liberty Advisors LLC
Lenich founded Liberty Advisors LLC, based in New York City, describing herself as an "advocate, mitigation specialist, prison consultant, and speaker."[2] The firm's advertised services include mitigation-specialist work such as social-history investigations and defense support, sentencing-advocacy reports, prison-phase consulting, and "Preparing for Prison" education on expectations, rights, and programs.[6] The firm's own site describes Lenich as a Certified Mitigation Specialist, though no issuing body is named on the page.[2]
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is Tara Lenich?
Tara Lenich is a federal prison consultant and mitigation specialist who founded Liberty Advisors LLC. She previously worked as a supervisory Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn.
Q: What does Liberty Advisors LLC do?
The firm offers mitigation-specialist work, sentencing-advocacy reports, prison-phase consulting, and education on what to expect facing federal charges and incarceration.
Q: Did Tara Lenich serve time in federal prison?
Yes. She pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally intercepting communications while serving as a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney and served roughly ten months at FCI Danbury.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Brooklyn Prosecutor Accused of Using Illegal Wiretap to Spy on Love Interest," The New York Times, November 28, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/nyregion/brooklyn-prosecutor-accused-of-using-illegal-wiretap-to-spy-on-love-interest.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Liberty Advisors LLC, "About Tara Lenich," https://libertyadvisorsllc.com/about/tara-lenich/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York, "Former Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Sentenced For Illegal Wiretapping Scheme," https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-brooklyn-assistant-district-attorney-sentenced-illegal-wiretapping-scheme.
- ↑ "Brooklyn Prosecutor Charged in Wiretap Scandal," Courthouse News Service, March 27, 2017, https://www.courthousenews.com/brooklyn-prosecutor-charged-wiretap-scandal/.
- ↑ "Ex-assistant DA who wiretapped NYPD love interest gets year in jail," New York Post, February 2, 2018, https://nypost.com/2018/02/02/ex-assistant-da-who-wiretapped-nypd-love-interest-gets-year-in-jail/.
- ↑ Liberty Advisors LLC, https://libertyadvisorsllc.com/.