In January 2011, Stanford's legal team requested a delay of the start of his scheduled Janutrial, noting that they had only taken over his defense in October 2010. Likely Costa's highest-profile prosecution in his six years as a federal prosecutor was the case against convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, who was indicted in 2009. From 2005–2012, Costa served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Texas. Career įrom 2002 until 2005, Costa worked as an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston. He then served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1999 until 2000, Costa served as a law clerk to Judge A. He then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1999, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review. After college, Costa taught elementary school in Sunflower, Mississippi as part of the Teach for America program from 1994 until 1996. While at Dartmouth, Costa interned for the Democratic National Committee. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 from Dartmouth College. Costa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Richardson, Texas, where he attended Richardson High School.
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