Mary Jo White
American attorney and former chairperson of the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionWikipedia
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Sep 29, 2026
Marc LevinGUEST
So they, they are...
Marc LevinGUEST
As, as Mary Jo White, who was the US attorney at, in the '90s, that prosecuted a lot of the terrorists, the Blind Sheikh, Ramzi Yousef, she said that was the scariest thing, is that Ramzi Yousef actually defended himself in court here in New York City.
Marc LevinGUEST
And she said he might have been the best lawyer in the courtroom, and that's scary when you think that his main mission in life is to kill us.
Andy OstroyHOST
Yeah.
Mary Jo WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, I'm not a legacy person, but if I have a legacy, it's the international terrorism cases.
Jim O'GradyHOST
That's veteran prosecutor Mary Jo White, known in her early career for taking down inside traders on Wall Street and mobster John Gotti.
Jim O'GradyHOST
She assumed her work for the Southern District would be much the same.
Jim O'GradyHOST
But on the afternoon of the bombing, her boss gave her a new priority.
Mary Jo WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I made it very clear to my prosecutors and to the FBI that he needed to get put back in, if at all possible.
John AnticevSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The supervisor said, "Oh, he's gonna want a lot of money." He didn't want to pay him.
Louis NapoliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I think Mary Jo White answers, "I don't care how much he wants."
Mary Jo WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Get him back in.
speaker_3NARRATOR
In 20 years, he'd chased a lot of bad guys, but nobody like Ramsey Youssef.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Mary Jo White was
speaker_1NARRATOR
U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York.
Mary Jo WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Youssef is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, very smart.
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speaker_3NARRATOR
On the QT, Townsend called O'Neal.
Fran TownsendSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he was, to say angry, disappointed, hurt, there becomes this bureaucratic arm wrestle over who's going to be the office of origin.
speaker_3NARRATOR
O'Neill desperately needed the help of U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White.
Mary Jo WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He and I were both very adamant that the New York field agents who were most knowledgeable about bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization get over to Africa as quickly as possible as the investigation was unfolding because those first few days are often the most critical to whether you capture somebody or not or figure out who's involved.
Andy McCarthyGUEST
So when the first plane hit the World Trade Center, I was very sure that we were under attack.
Andy McCarthyGUEST
And the first thing I did was I picked up the phone and I called Mary Jo White, who was the U.S. attorney at the time.
Andy McCarthyGUEST
She was a great U.S. attorney.
Andy McCarthyGUEST
And the second plane hadn't hit yet.
Bobby ChaconGUEST
I'm not sure how much to create.
Bobby ChaconGUEST
where Mary Jo White, who was the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan said, it's no longer, we're not really considering this a crime scene.
Bobby ChaconGUEST
We know about the 19 hijackers.
Bobby ChaconGUEST
We kind of know about, but this, we're not gonna really find any evidence, right? In this wreckage and stuff.