Terry Smiljanich
Terry Smiljanich was born in Tampa, Florida, United States on March 1st, 1947 and is the American Lawyer. At the age of 77, Terry Smiljanich biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Smiljanich served as a law clerk to United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Judge Ben Krentzman in Tampa from 1972 to 1974. He was Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1974 to 1977. While serving as a federal prosecutor, he handled organized crime cases, kidnappings, bank robberies, and environmental crimes, among other prosecutions. He won convictions of several organized crime figures. Smiljanich served in the United States Army Reserve from 1972 to 1981, and became a captain.
Smiljanich acted as counsel to the United States Senate during the congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. His responsibilities included investigations of State Department and White House personnel involved in the political scandal. He conducted the public interrogation of former United States Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff Donald Regan during the televised hearings.
In 1983 Smiljanich co-founded the law firm Blasingame, Forizs & Smiljanich. He was a partner there until 1997 when the firm merged with James, Hoyer & Newcomer the firm is now James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A. where he is currently a senior partner. As a lawyer he has been critical of mortgage banks and the practices in the private mortgage insurance business estimating that over one million homeowners in the U.S. were victims of the industry's failure to warn them about credit report issues that could raise premiums to over $700 a month on a $200,000 loan. He is the founder and managing editor of the Consumer Warning Network writing extensively for that organization. In his capacity at the Network he has been interviewed on local and national news programs and appeared in videos produced by the organization on a variety of topics including the foreclosure crisis, consumer scams and homeopathy.
With Charles Wachter he authored a book for lawyers on class action suits in Florida.