The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties:New York (Manhattan),Bronx,Westchester,Putnam,Rockland,Orange,Dutchess,and Sullivan. Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789,the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country. The SDNY handles a broad array of cases,including but not limited to those involving white collar crime,domestic terrorism,cybercrime,public corruption,organized crime,and civil rights disputes.
William Pelham Barr is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
Halkbank is a Turkish bank,first incorporated in 1933 as a state-owned bank. After growing throughout much of the twentieth century,it began absorbing smaller-sized state banks around the turn of the millennium. Halkbank is now a publicly traded company,although the majority stakeholder remains the Turkish government. Halkbank is a bank that offers vehicle loans,housing loans,consumer loans and commercial loans. A number of scandals and controversies involving the bank emerged in the 2010s,some of which culminated in arrests of its executives.
Edward Casey O'Callaghan is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official.
Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the District Attorney of New York County,New York,also known as the Manhattan District Attorney. He was previously a principal partner at the law firm of Morvillo,Abramowitz,Grand,Iason,Anello,&Bohrer,P.C. He is the son of Cyrus Vance Sr.,former Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Vance did not seek reelection as District Attorney in the 2021 election,and was succeeded by Alvin Bragg. He is currently a partner at Baker McKenzie.
Preetinder Singh Bharara is an Indian-born American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He is currently a partner at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for five years prior to leading the Southern District of New York.
Amy Sauber Berman Jackson is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4,2017 until December 23,2020. He was nominated for the position by President Donald Trump.
Scott W. Brady is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Before becoming the U.S. Attorney,he was the head of litigation for Federated Investors. Brady was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in Pittsburgh,from 2004 to 2010,where he prosecuted white collar crime,violent crime and drug trafficking offenses. He was also an associate at Jones Day and at Reed Smith,where his practice focused on multi-district litigation,white collar criminal matters and internal investigations. Brady is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is a partner at the law firm Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson.
Craig Carpenito is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. On January 5,2018,Carpenito was appointed U.S. Attorney pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §546 by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. On April 27,2018,the judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey unanimously appointed Carpenito U.S. Attorney pursuant to their statutory powers. He resigned on January 5,2021. He previously served as a federal prosecutor in the office from 2003 to 2008.
On August 10,2019,guards found Jeffrey Epstein,an American financier and convicted sex offender,unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City,where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards performed CPR,he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital,where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation,hiring pathologist Michael Baden.
Lev Parnas is a Ukrainian-born American businessman and associate of Rudy Giuliani. Parnas,Giuliani,Igor Fruman,John Solomon,Yuriy Lutsenko,Dmytro Firtash and his allies,Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova were involved in the Trump–Ukraine scandal. As president,Donald Trump said he did not know Parnas or what he was involved in;Parnas insisted Trump "knew exactly what was going on."
This is a timeline of events from 2020 to 2022 related to investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections,both before and after July 2016,until November 8,2016,election day,the transition,the first and second halves of 2017,the first and second halves of 2018,and the first and second halves of 2019.
Michael Rafi Sherwin is an attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2020 to 2021. He was appointed by Attorney General William Barr during the Trump administration. He is partner at the law firm Kobre &Kim where he handles international government investigations.
Trump v. Vance,591 U.S. ___ (2020),was a landmark US Supreme Court case arising from a subpoena issued in August 2019 by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. against Mazars,then-President Donald Trump's accounting firm,for Trump's tax records and related documents,as part of his ongoing investigation into the Stormy Daniels scandal. Trump commenced legal proceedings to prevent their release.
Mark Floyd Pomerantz is an American attorney. He is a member of the New York law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison,generally referred to as Paul,Weiss. In February 2021,he left that firm to assist with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the finances of former president Donald Trump until his resignation from the case in February 2022.
Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who serves as the New York County District Attorney,covering Manhattan. In 2021,he became the first African American elected to that office. Bragg had previously served as Chief Deputy Attorney General of New York and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
Carey R. Dunne is an American attorney. He is known for leading the criminal investigation of Donald Trump for the office of the Manhattan District Attorney until his resignation from the case,alongside his colleague Mark F. Pomerantz,in February 2022. In that role,Dunne successfully argued Trump v. Vance before the United States Supreme Court in May 2020;the court held that President Trump was required to comply with a state grand jury subpoena for his tax returns. Prior to his service at the DA's Office,Dunne was a longtime partner at Davis Polk &Wardwell,where he specialized in white collar criminal defense. Dunne is a past president of the New York City Bar Association.
