Mr. Egal previously served as a Deputy Chief in the Foreign Investment Review Section (FIRS) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD), where he worked closely with the Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Council, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Intelligence Community, the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce, State, and the Treasury, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to reach consensus on policies and actions that impacted U.S. national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, and trade policy interests in the telecommunications and information and communications technology services (ICTS) sectors.
In his capacity as Deputy Chief, Mr. Egal directly oversaw FIRS’s and NSD’s roles in representing the Attorney General as the Chair of “Team Telecom,” formally known as the “Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector,” pursuant to Executive Order 13913. In addition, he supervised the coordination of parallel reviews involving Team Telecom and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as DOJ’s referrals to the Department of Commerce, pursuant to Executive Order 13873, involving foreign ownership, control, or investment in the U.S. telecommunications and ICTS networks and infrastructure supply chains.
Mr. Egal previously had served in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, where he established and led the Universal Service Fund Strike Force (now known as the Fraud Division), the FCC’s first white collar fraud unit. Prior to that, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving public corruption, official bribery, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, campaign finance fraud, bank, mail, wire, and tax fraud, and international narcotics trafficking and money laundering.
Mr. Egal clerked for the Honorable Alia Moses, U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from St. John’s University and earned his law degree at the Howard University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Howard Law Journal.