Freed (born July 30, 1970) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021.

The announcement was considered out of protocol, and intended to undermine public confidence in the 2020 election (which President Donald Trump had frequently claimed without evidence would be rigged against him).

He earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

[4] After graduating from law school, Freed worked in a private practice focusing on insurance defense litigation.

[5] Freed sought and won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania Attorney General unopposed, after State Senator John Rafferty withdrew from the race.

[9][8][10] At the time, President Donald Trump had repeatedly made baseless claims that there would large-scale fraud in the 2020 election against his re-election.