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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a four-count Indictment charging SOUFIANE OULAHYANE, a/k/a “Soufiane Oulahya,” for a scheme to impersonate the […]
Damian Williams, Prosecutor in the FTX Case, Tackles Major Financial Crimes – The New York Times
Damian Williams, the federal prosecutor overseeing the case of Samuel Bankman-Fried, has been in office only 14 months but he has already handled a series of white-collar prosecutions. When a reporter asked at a news conference on Tuesday where the new case ranked in a district that had prosecuted people like Bernard Madoff, the infamous […]
Manhattan Is On Track to Have Its First Black U.S. Attorney – The New York Times
Senator Chuck Schumer will ask President Biden to name Damian Williams as the next U.S. attorney in Manhattan, virtually ensuring that one of the most powerful and important federal prosecutor’s offices in the country will be led for the first time by a Black man, the senator’s office said on Tuesday. Source: Manhattan Is On […]
Audrey Strauss Takes Over as Manhattan US Attorney Following Berman’s Dramatic Ouster | New York Law Journal
Audrey Strauss, the former top deputy to Geoffrey Berman, is set to take over the reins of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office this week, after her old boss agreed to resign Saturday following a 20-hour standoff with U.S. Attorney General William Barr over his removal. via Audrey Strauss Takes Over as Manhattan US Attorney Following […]
SEC Chief Urged to Drop U.S. Attorney Bid Amid Political Battle
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton was surprised and dismayed by the political battle that quickly erupted over his pending nomination to be the top federal prosecutor in New York, said people familiar with the matter. Now, as it becomes clear that he may face insurmountable hurdles to winning Senate confirmation for the […]
Wall Street’s Court Halts New Jury Trials Over Virus – Bloomberg
The court that oversees Wall Street is suspending new jury trials at least through next week, joining a global slowdown of court systems based on public hearings in the face of an outbreak that dictates the opposite. The federal court in Manhattan, one of the busiest dockets in the U.S. and the nation’s main forum […]
Departing SDNY Criminal Chief Heading to Debevoise | New York Law Journal
The former chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York is set to join Debevoise & Plimpton, where she will join several former colleagues from the top ranks of U.S. law enforcement in the firm’s white-collar defense and investigations practice. Lisa Zornberg, who was revealed in January to […]
Ex-Goldman Sachs employee pleads guilty to insider trading | Reuters
A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to engaging in insider trading based on non-public information about several companies that were clients of the investment bank, Manhattan federal prosecutors announced. Woojae “Steve” Jung, who was a vice president with the bank in San Francisco, has agreed to forfeit $130,000 he […]
Interim Manhattan US Attorney Appoints Senior Counsel | New York Law Journal
In another high-level hire, Geoffrey Berman, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District New York, has selected Audrey Strauss, a Southern District alumna who recently worked as chief in-house counsel for a leading aluminum producer, to serve as his senior counsel. A 1971 graduate of Columbia Law School, Strauss worked for the Southern District […]
Senator Gillibrand raises concerns about interim Manhattan U.S. attorney
Gillibrand, the junior U.S. senator from New York, said in an emailed statement to Reuters that she found “deeply disturbing” reports the president personally interviewed Berman for the post of Manhattan U.S. attorney, whose jurisdiction includes Trump’s home, offices and real estate holdings in New York. via Senator Gillibrand raises concerns about interim Manhattan U.S. […]