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|name=Joseph Egidio diGenova

|name=Joseph Egidio "Joe" diGenova

|office=[[United States Attorney]]<br> for the [[District of Columbia]]

|office=[[United States Attorney]]<br> for the [[District of Columbia]]

|term_start=December 2, 1983

|term_start=December 2, 1983

[[Georgetown University]] Law School

[[Georgetown University]] Law School

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'''Joseph Egidio diGenova''' (born February 22, 1945),<ref name=mylife>{{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 Ann Long 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 Department of Justice]] in the [[Ronald W. Reagan]] administration.

'''Joseph Egidio diGenova''', known as '''Joe diGenova''' (born February 22, 1945),<ref name=mylife>{{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 Ann Long 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 Department of Justice]] 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 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>