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!!Terri [=McCue=]
-->'''Played By''': Creator/SusanMisner
An FBI agent working with Chuck and the United States attorney’s office on the Axelrod case
* FairCop
* FBIAgent
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[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!Lonnie Watley
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MalachiWeir
A prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office, shuttling from Southern to Eastern quite often.
* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be this to Kate Sacker, but she's got a more powerful mentor in Chuck.
* ButtMonkey: Compared to Bryan and Kate, who are clearly Chuck's favorites and will be mentored by him into higher positions, Lonnie is hung out to dry by Chuck multiple times, even for things that are Chuck's fault. The latest is Chuck promoting Bryan to lead prosecutor at Eastern District and Kate to head of criminal prosecution at Southern, leaving Lonnie where he is - a deputy prosecutor forced into increasingly more illegal actions.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By Season 4 he has become thoroughly fed up with the Rhoades family, and agrees to help Taylor prepare for their testimony against Wendy before the medical board.
* PutOnABus: After failing to secure either a position at Eastern or the head of crim position at Southern, Lonnie is nowhere to be found until the latter half of Season 3, when he's moved to the private sector.
* TokenMinority: The only black male regular in the cast.
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[[folder:Dake]]
!! Oliver Dake
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherDenham
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dake.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:...]]
A member of Internal Affairs, he is sent by the Attorney General to investigate the Southern District's handling of the Axelrod case from season one. He is meticulous, ruthless, and absolutely focused on ferreting out the corruption, starting with Chuck Rhoades.
* BeardOfSorrow: Connerty finds him wearing one after being fired by Jeffcoat and exiled to UVA.
* CorruptBureaucrat: Not as bad as Chuck but Dake certainly falls into Rhoades' web of prevarication.
* DesignatedVillain: Dake is an ambitious young man, dedicated to clearing the government of corruption. It's just that he opposes our "heroes" at the Southern District.
* EnemyMine: After 2.09, the AG will not allow him to go after Chuck Rhoades after Chuck announces his run at the governorship, so Dake slinks back to Washington. In 2.11, it's revealed that part of Chuck's plan to tank Ice Juice involves him handing over Eastern District to Dake, to prosecute Bobby. In return for the job, Dake must agree to work with Chuck and take Bryan as his deputy.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His horn-rimmed specs just make him that much more unnerving. He loses them by the third season, however.
* TheFundamentalist: Interestingly, he seems pretty self-aware about it. When Rhoades calls him a Calvinist crusader, Dake bristles, but then concedes the point.
* InspectorJavert: Assigned by the AG to root out the corruption at Southern.
* MarriedToTheJob: He has a wife in DC, or so he says, but he pretty clearly puts his career first. In fact, there's a whiff of [[GirlfriendInCanada Girlfriend In Canada]] whenever someone brings up his marriage.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Railroads Connerty's investigation, ignoring, dismissing or outright forbidding several key elements to the case to make sure Rhoades and his family are off-limits.
* PutOnABus: Chuck mentions that Dake is outside the political-judiciary circus and is teaching law in season four.
* YouHaveFailedMe: On the receiving end of this when the Ice Juice case collapses, courtesy of Jeffcoat.
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[[folder:Jeffcoat]]
!! Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ClancyBrown
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeffcoat.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"All right. Any way we can take some scalps?"'']]
-->''"Well, somebody's gotta fry..."''
Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat is the new U.S. Attorney General, starting in Season 3.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jeffcoat finds Chuck cursing him in Italian hilarious, even though he doesn't know what Chuck said.
* BadassBaritone: He has a very commanding, deep speaking voice and is the chief lawyer of these United States.
* TheBadGuyWins: Comes out on top at the end of Season 3. Chuck thinks he has Jeffcoat nailed on money laundering and obstruction of justice, only to realize that Epstein, Dake, Bryan and ''Kate'' have all betrayed him. Jeffcoat promptly fires Chuck as U.S. Attorney. [[spoiler:In season 4, he loses in the final episode.]]
* CorruptChurch: Jock's brother is a famous televangelist. Turns out both brothers are laundering money through the TV ministry to shore up their fortune, making Jock several times richer than publicly thought.
* TheDreaded: Every interaction with this General is filled with apprehension, as his subordinates fear and know they could be fired on the spot.
* GoodOlBoy: Cowboy-boots-wearing, gun-toting, hillbilly-accented redneck and proud of it. Makes his introduction with a highly disgusting stallion-and-mare metaphor.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Jeffcoat is a native of the Lone-Star State and stands at a towering 6'4.
* GratuitousSpanish: This Señor likes to insert some Spanish palabras every now and then.
* HangingJudge: One step removed. He's notoriously harsh and unrelenting in his prosecutorial agenda, perfectly willing to indict and punish to the end any kind of wrongdoers, even the seemingly innocent ones.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's quite overbearing and obnoxious, in a raw, archaic and [[CrossesTheLineTwice almost endearing way]].
* KarmaHoudini: Fires Chuck before he can bring charges related to Jeffcoat's money laundering.
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Is blackmailed by Chuck into resigning when he produces audio evidence that Jeffcoat ordered Connerty to violate attorney-client privilege.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: His towering presence adds another layer of superiority around him.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jeffcoat is loosely based on Jeff Sessions, on the basis of being an ultraconservative, southern-born Attorney General for a new Republican administration, with both of them pushing racist policies and inaugurating their appointments with the dismissal of almost every sitting U.S. Attorney.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has no desire to get Maria Gonzalez back into the country to testify in the Ice Juice case, citing her being a "three-times illegal." Tries to make Chuck prosecute cases against ethnic minorities to appease Jeffcoat's ''Breitbart''-reading base, but balks when Chuck wants to prosecute white prison guards for the murder of a Hispanic inmate. Dislikes visiting New York because he thinks certain areas are "shitholes."
* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a devout Christian.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first scene]], he boasts about his firing of every U.S. Attorney except for seven since he was appointed, and not only does he discourage Chuck's office from pursuing investigations into Wall Street, he's also a brutal micro-manager. It's telling that he doesn't talk about a new "administration", he instead uses the term new ''regime''.
* UndisclosedFunds: He has more than a quarter billion, but people think his net worth is just a tiny fraction of what it really is.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He always makes very clear to his underlings that heads will roll if they displease him. As does Dake's after the Ice Juice fiasco. And Chuck's when Jeffcoat finds out about his attempted putsch.
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!!Lonnie Watley
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MalachiWeir
A prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office, shuttling from Southern to Eastern quite often.
* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be this to Kate Sacker, but she's got a more powerful mentor in Chuck.
* ButtMonkey: Compared to Bryan and Kate, who are clearly Chuck's favorites and will be mentored by him into higher positions, Lonnie is hung out to dry by Chuck multiple times, even for things that are Chuck's fault. The latest is Chuck promoting Bryan to lead prosecutor at Eastern District and Kate to head of criminal prosecution at Southern, leaving Lonnie where he is - a deputy prosecutor forced into increasingly more illegal actions.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By Season 4 he has become thoroughly fed up with the Rhoades family, and agrees to help Taylor prepare for their testimony against Wendy before the medical board.
* PutOnABus: After failing to secure either a position at Eastern or the head of crim position at Southern, Lonnie is nowhere to be found until the latter half of Season 3, when he's moved to the private sector.
* TokenMinority: The only black male regular in the cast.
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[[folder:Dake]]
!! Oliver Dake
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherDenham
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dake.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:...]]
A member of Internal Affairs, he is sent by the Attorney General to investigate the Southern District's handling of the Axelrod case from season one. He is meticulous, ruthless, and absolutely focused on ferreting out the corruption, starting with Chuck Rhoades.
* BeardOfSorrow: Connerty finds him wearing one after being fired by Jeffcoat and exiled to UVA.
* CorruptBureaucrat: Not as bad as Chuck but Dake certainly falls into Rhoades' web of prevarication.
* DesignatedVillain: Dake is an ambitious young man, dedicated to clearing the government of corruption. It's just that he opposes our "heroes" at the Southern District.
* EnemyMine: After 2.09, the AG will not allow him to go after Chuck Rhoades after Chuck announces his run at the governorship, so Dake slinks back to Washington. In 2.11, it's revealed that part of Chuck's plan to tank Ice Juice involves him handing over Eastern District to Dake, to prosecute Bobby. In return for the job, Dake must agree to work with Chuck and take Bryan as his deputy.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His horn-rimmed specs just make him that much more unnerving. He loses them by the third season, however.
* TheFundamentalist: Interestingly, he seems pretty self-aware about it. When Rhoades calls him a Calvinist crusader, Dake bristles, but then concedes the point.
* InspectorJavert: Assigned by the AG to root out the corruption at Southern.
* MarriedToTheJob: He has a wife in DC, or so he says, but he pretty clearly puts his career first. In fact, there's a whiff of [[GirlfriendInCanada Girlfriend In Canada]] whenever someone brings up his marriage.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Railroads Connerty's investigation, ignoring, dismissing or outright forbidding several key elements to the case to make sure Rhoades and his family are off-limits.
* PutOnABus: Chuck mentions that Dake is outside the political-judiciary circus and is teaching law in season four.
* YouHaveFailedMe: On the receiving end of this when the Ice Juice case collapses, courtesy of Jeffcoat.
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[[folder:Jeffcoat]]
!! Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ClancyBrown
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeffcoat.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"All right. Any way we can take some scalps?"'']]
-->''"Well, somebody's gotta fry..."''
Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat is the new U.S. Attorney General, starting in Season 3.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jeffcoat finds Chuck cursing him in Italian hilarious, even though he doesn't know what Chuck said.
* BadassBaritone: He has a very commanding, deep speaking voice and is the chief lawyer of these United States.
* TheBadGuyWins: Comes out on top at the end of Season 3. Chuck thinks he has Jeffcoat nailed on money laundering and obstruction of justice, only to realize that Epstein, Dake, Bryan and ''Kate'' have all betrayed him. Jeffcoat promptly fires Chuck as U.S. Attorney. [[spoiler:In season 4, he loses in the final episode.]]
* CorruptChurch: Jock's brother is a famous televangelist. Turns out both brothers are laundering money through the TV ministry to shore up their fortune, making Jock several times richer than publicly thought.
* TheDreaded: Every interaction with this General is filled with apprehension, as his subordinates fear and know they could be fired on the spot.
* GoodOlBoy: Cowboy-boots-wearing, gun-toting, hillbilly-accented redneck and proud of it. Makes his introduction with a highly disgusting stallion-and-mare metaphor.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Jeffcoat is a native of the Lone-Star State and stands at a towering 6'4.
* GratuitousSpanish: This Señor likes to insert some Spanish palabras every now and then.
* HangingJudge: One step removed. He's notoriously harsh and unrelenting in his prosecutorial agenda, perfectly willing to indict and punish to the end any kind of wrongdoers, even the seemingly innocent ones.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's quite overbearing and obnoxious, in a raw, archaic and [[CrossesTheLineTwice almost endearing way]].
* KarmaHoudini: Fires Chuck before he can bring charges related to Jeffcoat's money laundering.
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Is blackmailed by Chuck into resigning when he produces audio evidence that Jeffcoat ordered Connerty to violate attorney-client privilege.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: His towering presence adds another layer of superiority around him.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jeffcoat is loosely based on Jeff Sessions, on the basis of being an ultraconservative, southern-born Attorney General for a new Republican administration, with both of them pushing racist policies and inaugurating their appointments with the dismissal of almost every sitting U.S. Attorney.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has no desire to get Maria Gonzalez back into the country to testify in the Ice Juice case, citing her being a "three-times illegal." Tries to make Chuck prosecute cases against ethnic minorities to appease Jeffcoat's ''Breitbart''-reading base, but balks when Chuck wants to prosecute white prison guards for the murder of a Hispanic inmate. Dislikes visiting New York because he thinks certain areas are "shitholes."
* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a devout Christian.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his first scene]], he boasts about his firing of every U.S. Attorney except for seven since he was appointed, and not only does he discourage Chuck's office from pursuing investigations into Wall Street, he's also a brutal micro-manager. It's telling that he doesn't talk about a new "administration", he instead uses the term new ''regime''.
* UndisclosedFunds: He has more than a quarter billion, but people think his net worth is just a tiny fraction of what it really is.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He always makes very clear to his underlings that heads will roll if they displease him. As does Dake's after the Ice Juice fiasco. And Chuck's when Jeffcoat finds out about his attempted putsch.
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