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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInManhattan U.S. Attorney Announces The Appointment Of Robert Khuzami as Deputy U.S. Attorney | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the selection of Robert Khuzami as Deputy U.S. Attorney. Mr. Khuzami will return to the Office from the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where he is a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Practice Group. Mr. Khuzami […]
Giuliani Law Partner Named Top New York Federal Prosecutor – Bloomberg
Geoffrey Berman was among 17 lawyers selected as interim U.S. Attorneys by the Trump administration, putting him in position to lead an office that has overseen some of the most significant investigations in the nation’s history. On Wednesday, the office won a conviction of a Turkish banker who helped Iran evade U.S. financial sanctions in a […]
Preet Bharara, Ousted Federal Prosecutor, Will Join CNN – The New York Times
Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, has been far from silent since being ousted from his job in March. He is writing a book, regularly muses on politics and legal matters to his 438,000 followers on Twitter, and just started a podcast. (First episode: “That Time President Trump Fired Me.”) Now the […]
Fired by Trump, former US Attorney Preet Bharara launches podcast
The 48-year-old is launching the weekly show “Stay Tuned With Preet,” in partnership with WNYC Studios, a subsidiary of New York Public Radio. The podcast will be produced by Some Spider Studios, a media company owned by Bharara’s brother, Vinit, where Preet Bharara became an executive vice president earlier this year. via Fired by Trump, […]
Trump May Nominate a Giuliani Law Partner as U.S. Attorney in Manhattan – The New York Times
The Trump administration is considering naming Geoffrey S. Berman, a law partner of the former New York City mayor and ally of the president — Rudolph W. Giuliani, to assume the powerful position of United States attorney in Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter. via Trump May Nominate a Giuliani Law Partner […]
When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen – The New Yorker
Klotz pointed out that Cohen’s desk had seven monitors on it. His Microsoft Outlook messages appeared on the far-left one, behind multiple other screens, further increasing the likelihood that he never saw the Dell message. He would have had to “turn to the far left of his seven screens, minimize one or two computer programs, […]
The Trader Seeking Revenge Against U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — Fortune
He pauses and adds, “As much hell as I went through, if the system works as I have every reason to believe it does, it will be even more hell for them, given the severity of their misconduct.” The primary target of Ganek’s ire is Preet Bharara, the powerful U.S. Attorney for the extremely powerful […]
Top White-Collar SDNY Prosecutor to Join Milbank – Law Blog – WSJ
Katherine Goldstein is stepping down as chief of the securities fraud unit in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office to become a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Ms. Goldstein, who has worked as a federal prosecutor for 12 years, will leave the government next month. via Top White-Collar SDNY Prosecutor to Join Milbank […]
Preet Bharara meets Trump, agrees to stay on as US attorney – Times of India
“The President-elect asked, presumably because he’s a New Yorker and is aware of the great work that our office has done over the past seven years, asked to meet with me to discuss whether or not I’d be prepared to stay on as the United States attorney to do the work as we have done […]
After setbacks, N.Y. prosecutors resume insider trading crackdown | Reuters
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are pursuing insider trading cases on a pace not seen since 2012 – before a major appellate ruling limited their ability to bring charges against hedge fund managers and other traders. So far this year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, known for high-profile prosecutions of wrongdoing on Wall Street, has announced charges […]