Screen shot of Dennis Vacco's since-deleted tweet referring to Christine Blasey Ford's accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominiee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Former New York State Attorney General, Dennis C. Vacco, is a Partner with Lippes Mathias and serves on the firm's Executive Committee and as the Government & State Attorneys General Investigations Practice Team Leader. Mr. Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Vacco focuses his practice on State Attorney General investigations as well as investigations by the United States Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Homeland Security.
Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York by President Ronald Reagan after serving 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County.
Vacco was appointed as the United States Attorney for the Western District of New York State by President Ronald Reagan. He continued to serve in that capacity under President George H. Bush and he resigned his position at the request of President Clinton. While United States Attorney, Mr. Vacco served as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Attorney General on Environmental Enforcement, and created the first environmental task force in the nation which joined State, local and Federal resources in an effort to combat environmental crime.
In February of 1999, Mr. Vacco was recruited by Waste Management Inc to become vice president for government affairs in the northeast and Canada. In July of 1999 he was promoted to become the president of Waste Management of New York, LLC a subsidiary of the parent company. With no formal degree in business management, Dennis Vacco was responsible for a company which had over seven hundred and fifty million dollars in gross revenue. Due to the size of the investment which the company made to acquire large holdings in New York City, Mr. Vacco was in regular contact with the CEO and the Board of Directors. At the time of his promotion in July of 1999, the company was loosing over twenty-five million dollars a year through it’s New York City operations. As a result of a strategy which Vacco’s team prepared and he presented to the Board of Directors, those losses were reversed and in his last year with the company the New York City operations netted a three and a half million dollar profit, which improved the profit margin of the entire New York state region by over twenty-eight million dollars.
In April of 2008 Mr. Vacco left the consulting firm in order to concentrate his law practice on serving various companies as outside general counsel. In December of 2009 he joined the law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman.