First Assistant United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom

Sara Miron Bloom joined the District of Rhode Island in January 2022 as First Assistant United States Attorney, following over twenty-five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, where she served in several capacities since joining that office in 1995. While in the District of Massachusetts, Ms. Bloom investigated and litigated complex financial crime cases in the Securities, Financial, & Cyber Fraud Unit and served as Chief of the Civil Division’s Affirmative Litigation Unit and Senior Litigation Counsel to the Criminal Division.  Her work included leading civil and criminal pharmaceutical marketing fraud cases against Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and others that resulted in approximately $6 billion in total criminal and civil recoveries, as well as service as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division, litigating defensive and affirmative matters on behalf of the United States.

Prior to her appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney, Ms. Bloom was employed as a general litigation associate in the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow from 1989 to 1995, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Keeton, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Ms. Bloom, a 1985 graduate of Swarthmore College, received her law degree from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1988.