Sara Miron Bloom Is Now Acting U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island

Sara Miron Bloom Is Now Acting U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island

Sara Miron Bloom, who joined the District of Rhode Island in January 2022 as First Assistant United States Attorney, is now the acting United States Attorney for Rhode Island.

She took over the position after the resignation of Zachary Cunha, who served for three years.

There is no word who President Donald Trump's administration will name for the position.

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She joined the Rhode Island office 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, 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, 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.

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