Judge Faruqui

Judge Faruqui has been serving as a federal magistrate judge for the District of Columbia since September 2020. Prior to his appointment, he was a federal prosecutor, first in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and then in the District of Columbia. In his twelve years of federal service as an AUSA, he prosecuted criminal cases, serving as the lead prosecutor for crimes involving terrorists’ use of cryptocurrency, nuclear weapons proliferation, darknet sites dedicated to child exploitation, and antiquities theft. Judge Faruqui also worked at a corporate law firm where he focused on government investigations and commercial litigation. Judge Faruqui is a board member for Jobs for Homeless People. He has served as a Muslim-outreach coordinator for the Department of Justice. He received his J.D. and undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.

Judge Kuo

Peggy Kuo was sworn in as United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York in 2015. Her multi-faceted legal career includes positions as Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel of the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings; Chief Hearing Officer for the New York Stock Exchange; counsel with the law firm of WilmerHale, and law clerk to the Honorable Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Court of Appeals. She also served for twelve years as a prosecutor: as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, DC., with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Criminal Section, and at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she prosecuted the first international war crimes trial focused on mass rape and slavery as crimes against humanity. Judge Kuo has a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School.