The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of the State of New York. Two of these are in New York City:New York (Manhattan) and Bronx;six are in the Hudson Valley:Westchester,Putnam,Rockland,Orange,Dutchess,and Sullivan. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Lewis Avins Kaplan is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior U.S. district judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was the presiding judge in a number of cases involving high-profile defendants,including E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump,Virginia Giuffre v. Prince Andrew,United States v. Bankman-Fried,and trials of Al Qaeda terrorists such as Ahmed Ghailani.
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.
Alison Julie Nathan is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2011 to 2022. She previously served as associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama.
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2021 as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security. During the Obama administration,he also served in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),first as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (2009–2013),and as deputy secretary of DHS (2013–2016).
Michael Bachner is an American criminal defense and securities litigation attorney. He is the founder of Bachner &Associates,P.C. located in New York City. Bachner has represented numerous high-profile figures in the political,sports,entertainment,and business communities,and is frequently quoted by national media outlets. Bachner started his career as an associate for legendary criminal defense attorney Benjamin Brafman,with whom he occasionally works to defend clients in high-profile trials.
The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday,November 5,2024. During this presidential election year,the president and vice president will be elected. In addition,all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested to determine the membership of the 119th United States Congress. Thirteen state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
Alan Joseph Bankman is an American legal scholar and psychologist. He is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He was also employed at FTX,the cryptocurrency company founded by his son,Sam Bankman-Fried,who is an entrepreneur and convicted felon. His tenure at FTX lasted until the company's bankruptcy and subsequent collapse in 2022.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020,he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Division. In 2020 and 2021,Clark allegedly helped then-president Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Clark's actions in that endeavor were reviewed by the District of Columbia Bar –the entity authorized by law to pursue attorney discipline and disbarment in the District of Columbia –which recommended discipline to the DC Court of Appeals in July 2022. He was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. On August 14,2023,he was indicted along with 18 other people in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia.
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.
Hector Gonzalez is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Dale Edwin Ho is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to becoming a judge,he was the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's voting rights project.
Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried,or SBF,is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto. At one point,he was ranked the 41st-richest American in the Forbes 400.
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.
Breon Stacey Peace is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York since October 2021.
Carla Beth Freedman is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York since October 2021.
FTX Trading Ltd.,commonly known as FTX,is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a fraud-ridden cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang. At its peak in July 2021,the company had over one million users and was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume. FTX is incorporated in Antigua and Barbuda and headquartered in the Bahamas. FTX is closely associated with FTX.US,a separate exchange available to US residents.
Maxwell Alejandro Frost is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 10th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he was previously the national organizing director for March for Our Lives. Elected at age 25,Frost is the first member of Generation Z to serve in the United States Congress.
Margaret Garnett is an American lawyer from New York who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
