United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan

Eric G. Olshan is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where he oversees an office of approximately 125 prosecutors, civil litigators, and professional staff in three offices—Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown.  The district serves a population of over 3 million people.  Mr. Olshan was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on March 21, 2023, and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 8, 2023.

Mr. Olshan serves on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), a select group of United States Attorneys who advise the Attorney General on matters of policy, procedure, and management.  Mr. Olshan is also a member of the AGAC’s White Collar Fraud, Terrorism and National Security, Civil Rights, and Environmental Justice Subcommittees.

Mr. Olshan has devoted his entire career to public service, having joined the United States Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 2007.  From 2007 to 2017, Mr. Olshan maintained a nationwide practice as a member of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section based in Washington, D.C., first as a Trial Attorney from 2007 to 2013 and later as Deputy Chief from 2013 to 2017.  During this time, Mr. Olshan focused on long-term, complex investigations and prosecutions of bribery, extortion, mail and wire fraud, campaign finance violations, unlawful disclosure of national defense information, and obstruction of justice, among other offenses.  Mr. Olshan’s cases involved public officials at all levels of government, including Members of Congress, Cabinet officials, elected and appointed judges, governors and other high-ranking state officeholders, military personnel, and law enforcement officers.  

Mr. Olshan joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania as an Assistant United States Attorney in 2017, focusing primarily on white collar prosecution.  During his time in the district, Mr. Olshan has served as the Civil Rights Coordinator, Public Corruption Coordinator, Health Care Fraud Coordinator, Environmental Crime Coordinator, and District Election Officer.  He has prosecuted cases involving, among other offenses, the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act.  Immediately prior to becoming United States Attorney, Mr. Olshan served as the Chief of the Economic/Cyber/National Security Crimes Section, where he supervised the investigation and prosecution of all traditional white collar offenses, cybercrime, domestic and international terrorism, civil rights offenses, and crimes against children. 

During his career, Mr. Olshan has practiced in over a dozen federal district courts and has tried over two dozen cases on behalf of the United States, including jury trials in the Western District of Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Eastern District of Virginia, Middle District of Florida, Middle District of Alabama, District of Nevada, and Northern District of West Virginia.  He has also briefed and argued appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits.  Mr. Olshan has received numerous awards for his work, including the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation, the Justice Department’s highest recognition for trial practice.

Mr. Olshan served as a law clerk for Judge Richard C. Tallman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2006 to 2007.  Mr. Olshan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003, where he earned a B.S. in physics with highest distinction.  He received his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2006.