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Dennis Vacco is an American lawyer and politician who served as the New York State Attorney General from 1995 to 1998. He was born on August 16, 1952 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Canisius College in 1974 and received his law degree from the University at Buffalo Law School in 1977.
Vacco began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Erie County, New York. He then served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General's Office from 1979 to 1982. He was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1984 and served until 1992. In 1994, he was elected New York State Attorney General and served until 1998.
Vacco is currently a partner at the law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP in Buffalo, New York. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Italian American Foundation.
Vacco is married to his wife, Mary, and has two children. He is 68 years old.
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Who Is Dennis Vacco's Wife?
His wife is Kelly Vacco
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Dennis Vacco Net Worth
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In 2017, Vacco unsuccessful defended controversial Buffalo School Board member, Carl Paladino after his employment was terminated for misuse of confidential information and making what many called racist comments about former president Barack Obama during a magazine interview. After a hearing before the New York State education committee, it was determined that the Buffalo School Board had the right to terminate Carl Paladino’s employment, no further legal action was taken by either parties involved.
As attorney general, Vacco also argued the landmark assisted suicide case Vacco v. Quill before the United States Supreme Court. He successfully defended the state's ban on the practice, winning the case by a 9–0 vote.
As a lobbyist in New York State, Vacco was identified as having made inconsistencies in required filings. In April 2006, after a six-month investigation, Vacco was cleared of allegations that he violated lobbying regulations. The investigation "centered on whether Vacco’s firm had an illegal contingency-fee contract with a Rochester businessman in exchange for helping him win a casino deal with an Oklahoma tribe." In October 2005, Vacco’s lobbying firm agreed to pay the state $50,000 in connection with the questionable contract, but it was not required to admit wrongdoing."
In 1998, Vacco was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat Eliot Spitzer, by a margin of approximately 0.6% of the votes cast. He was the first attorney general in New York since 1925 to not be re-elected to a second term.
Vacco was the Attorney General of New York from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1998.
In 1994, Vacco defeated Karen Burstein, the Democratic nominee. One week before the election, Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari announced that Burstein was not qualified to serve as attorney general because she was a lesbian. The combination of Molinari's remarks, a strong national Republican showing, and the win of George Pataki in the governor's race, led to Vacco narrowly defeating Burstein. The New York Times called Molinari's remarks, "gutter politics."
Vacco was an Assistant District Attorney of Erie County, New York from 1978 to 1988, and United States Attorney for the Western District of New York from 1988 until the beginning of the Clinton administration in 1993.
Dennis C. Vacco (born August 16, 1952) is an American lawyer and politician. He graduated with a B.A. from Colgate University in 1974, a J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School in 1978, and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1979. He is to date the last Republican to serve as New York Attorney General.
