Notable personal detailsJ.P. Cooney is an attorney and former federal prosecutor running as a Democrat for Congress in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. He served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, including as chief of its Fraud and Public Corruption Section, and previously worked in the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. He later served as Principal Deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith and was a lead prosecutor in the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump. He was raised in Arlington, Virginia, attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia School of Law, and is active in Arlington community youth baseball.