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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Joseph Egidio diGenova
|office=[[United States Attorney]] for the [[District of Columbia]]
|term_start=December 2, 1983
|term_end=March 1, 1988
|preceded=Stanley S. Harris
|succeeded=Jay B. Stephens
|birth_date=February 22, 1945
|birth_place=[[Wilmington]], [[Delaware]]
|residence=Chevy Chase, [[Maryland]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Victoria Ann Long Toensing (married 1981; her second marriage)
|children=Three children
|alma_mater=University of [[Cincinnati]]<br>
[[Georgetown University]] Law School
}}
'''Joseph Egidio diGenova''' (born February 22, 1945),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/joseph-digenova/e173011522896|title=Joseph diGenova|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}</ref> with his wife, Victoria A. Toensing (born 1941), is a high-profile [[attorney]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He is a former [[United States Attorney]] for the [[District of Columbia]]; she was deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the [[United States Justice Department]] in the [[Ronald W. Reagan]] administration.
DiGenova and Toensing were scheduled in March 2018 to join the legal team of [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]] but were disqualified on grounds of conflicts of interest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/22/victoria-toensing-joins-husband-joseph-digenova-on-trumps-legal-team-in-russia-probe.html|title=Victoria Toensing joins husband Joseph diGenova on Trump's legal team in Russia probe|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=March 23, 2018|author=Brooke Singman|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}</ref> DiGenova in January endorsed the claim that a secret group of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agents devised the investigation of [[Russian]]n meddling in the 2016 presidential election to keep Trump from becoming president: “There was a brazen illegal plot to exonerate [[Hillary Clinton]] and, if she didn’t win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime,” he said on [[Fox News]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/politics/joseph-digenova-trump-lawyer.html|title=Trump Hires Lawyer Who Has Pushed Theory That Justice Dept. Framed the President|date=March 19, 2018|author=Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}</ref>
DiGenova and Toensing reside in Chevy Chase, [[Maryland]],<ref name=mylife/> and formerly lived in the District of Columbia and Fenwick Island and several other locations in his native [[Delaware]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Joseph-Digenova/Chevy%20chase-MD|title=Joseph E. DiGenova|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}</ref>
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[[Category:District of Columbia]]
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[[Category:Delaware]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Donald Trump]]
[[Category:Christians]]