Daniel Glad
Chicago, Illinois.

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern District of Illinois Office’s Criminal Division and General Crimes Section.

Family from Gorski Kotar plus villages near Vrbovsko and Rijeka. Daniel is a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and investigates and prosecutes a variety of federal offenses, including fraud, bank robbery and embezzlement, and illegal possession and sale of narcotics and firearms. Prior to being the Special Assistant, Daniel was a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice and Assistant Inspector General at the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General. Daniel was a PILI Fellow and worked in Zagreb, Croatia, where his work focused on implementing judicial and institutional reform in a post-Communist country.

He was also involved in research related to creating a regulatory framework and educating Croatian lawyers in modern legal practices. Daniel is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. He was a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan law school. He is also a former Indiana Junior Tamburitzan and very active over the years with St. Jerome’s Croatian Catholic Church in Chicago. He is been a member of the Croatian American Bar Association, Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) and the Croatian Fraternal Union.

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