Dana James Boente ( BEN-tay; born February 7, 1954) is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.Boente was second in the line of succession of the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to an Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama before leaving office. He was appointed by President Donald Trump as Acting Attorney General on January 30, 2017, after Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was dismissed by Trump earlier that evening. When Jeff Sessions was confirmed and sworn in as Attorney General on February 9, 2017, Boente became Acting Deputy Attorney General. Also on February 9, 2017, Trump signed a new Executive Order to replace Obama's EO, and which modified the order of succession to remove Boente from the list. Wikipedia
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