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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, 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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]