U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
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The U.S. 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
. Preet Bharara
, who was appointed by Barack Obama
in 2009 is the U.S. Attorney for the District. Bharara took over the post from Lev L. Dassin
, who was acting as the interim U.S. Attorney after Michael J. Garcia
, appointed by President George W. Bush
in 2005, stepped down in December 2008 to join the partnership of New York law firm Kirkland & Ellis
.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney. The New York Times has called the office "one of New York City's
most powerful clubs."
, and one in White Plains
. The office employs approximately 220 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
counties: New York
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
(Manhattan), Bronx
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
, Westchester
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
, Putnam
Putnam County, New York
Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the lower Hudson River Valley. Putnam county formed in 1812, when it detached from Dutchess County. , the population was 99,710. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. The county seat is the hamlet of Carmel...
, Rockland
Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is a suburban county 15 miles to the northwest of Manhattan and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the southernmost county in New York west of the Hudson River, and the smallest county in New York outside of New York City. The...
, Orange
Orange County, New York
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area. The county sits in the state's scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley...
, Dutchess
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488...
, and Sullivan
Sullivan County, New York
Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 77,547. The county seat is Monticello. The name is in honor of Major General John Sullivan, who was a hero in the American Revolutionary War...
. Preet Bharara
Preet Bharara
Preetinder S. Bharara , commonly known as Preet Bharara, is U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:Bharara was born in 1968 in Firozpur, Punjab, India, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother...
, who was appointed by Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
in 2009 is the U.S. Attorney for the District. Bharara took over the post from Lev L. Dassin
Lev L. Dassin
Lev J. Dassin was acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from December 2008 until August 2009.Dassin received his bachelors degree from Cornell University and his JD from New York University School of Law. He was a law clerk for judge David N. Edelstein.Dassin served as an...
, who was acting as the interim U.S. Attorney after Michael J. Garcia
Michael J. Garcia
Michael J. Garcia is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.Mr. Garcia is the prosecutor in charge of the federal investigation against the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer....
, appointed by President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
in 2005, stepped down in December 2008 to join the partnership of New York law firm Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an international law firm with headquarters in Chicago, known for its profitability and its litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property and private equity departments. Kirkland & Ellis is currently ranked as the ninth most prestigious law firm in the United States by...
.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case...
has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney. The New York Times has called the office "one of New York City's
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
most powerful clubs."
Organization
The Office is organized into divisions handling civil, criminal, and civil rights matters. The Southern District of New York also has two offices: one in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, and one in White Plains
White Plains, New York
White Plains is a city and the county seat of Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located in south-central Westchester, about east of the Hudson River and northwest of Long Island Sound...
. The office employs approximately 220 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.
List of U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York
- Jonathan FiskJonathan FiskJonathan Fisk was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
: 1815 - 1819 - Robert L. TillotsonRobert L. TillotsonRobert Livingston Tillotson was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Thomas Tillotson and Margaret Livingston Tillotson.He was Secretary of State of New York from 1816 to 1817....
: 1819 - 1828 - John DuerJohn DuerJohn Duer was a New York jurist.-Biography:He was the son of William and Catherine Duer. He entered the army in his sixteenth year, but after two years left the service for the study of law...
: 1828 - April 1829 - James A. HamiltonJames Alexander HamiltonJames Alexander Hamilton was the third son of Alexander Hamilton. He graduated from Columbia University, was an officer in the War of 1812, and served as acting Secretary of State to Andrew Jackson. He then became a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York....
: April 1829 - 1834 - William M. Price: 1834 - December 10, 1838
- Benjamin F. ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler (lawyer)Benjamin Franklin Butler was a lawyer, legislator and Attorney General of the United States.-Early life:...
: December 10, 1838–1841 - Ogden Hoffman: 1841 - 1845
- Benjamin F. ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler (lawyer)Benjamin Franklin Butler was a lawyer, legislator and Attorney General of the United States.-Early life:...
: 1845 - 1848 - Charles McVeanCharles McVeanCharles McVean was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born near Johnstown, New York, McVean pursued an academic course. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Johnstown. He was editor of a newspaper in Canajoharie 1827-1831.McVean was elected as a Jacksonian to the...
: Sept. - Dec. 1848 - Lorenzo B. ShepardLorenzo B. ShepardLorenzo Brigham Shepard was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:Lorenzo B. Shepard was the son of David Brewster Shepard , a New York City lawyer....
: Dec. 1848 or Jan. 1849 - April 1849 - Jonathan Prescott Hall: April 1849 - 1853
- Charles O'ConorCharles O'ConorCharles O'Conor was an American lawyer who ran in the U.S. presidential election, 1872.-Biography:...
: 1853 - 1854 - John McKeonJohn McKeonJohn McKeon was an American lawyer and politician from New York.- Life :He was the son of Capt...
: 1854 - 1858 - Theodore SedgwickTheodore Sedgwick (writer)Theodore Sedgwick was an American law writer.He was born at Albany, New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1829. In 1858, he became United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the son of Theodore Sedgwick II and Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick , a writer,...
: 1858 - 1859 - James I. RooseveltJames I. RooseveltJames John Roosevelt, known as James I., was an American politician, jurist, businessman, and member of the Roosevelt family. He was the granduncle of U.S...
: 1859 - 1861 - E. Delafield Smith: April 1861 - April 1865
- Daniel S. DickinsonDaniel S. DickinsonDaniel Stevens Dickinson was a New York politician, most notable as a United States Senator from 1844 to 1851.-Biography:...
: April 1865 - April 12, 1866 - Samuel G. Courtney: April 1866 - April 25, 1869
- Edwards PierrepontEdwards PierrepontEdwards Pierrepont was an American statesman, jurist and lawyer.-Biography:Born in North Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University and New Haven Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, from 1840 to 1845...
: April 25, 1869 - July 20, 1870 - Noah DavisNoah DavisNoah Davis was an American lawyer and politician from New York-Life:...
: July 20, 1870 - December 31, 1872 - George Bliss, Jr.: December 31, 1872–1877
- Stewart L. WoodfordStewart L. WoodfordStewart Lyndon Woodford was an American politician.-Life:He studied at Yale University and Columbia College . At the latter he graduated in 1854 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall...
: 1877 - March 12, 1883 - Elihu RootElihu RootElihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C...
: March 12, 1883 - July 6, 1885 - William DorsheimerWilliam DorsheimerWilliam Dorsheimer was an American lawyer, journalist and politician.-Life:...
: July 6, 1885 - March 1, 1886 - Stephen A. Walker: March 1, 1886 - September 16, 1889
- Edward J. Mitchell: September 16, 1889 - February 1, 1894
- Henry C. Platt (Acting): February 1, 1894-July 23, 1894
- Wallace Macfarlane: July 23, 1894 - January 1898
- Henry Lawrence BurnettHenry Lawrence BurnettHenry Lawrence Burnett was a brevet brigadier general for the Union in the American Civil War and a prosecutor in the trial that followed the Abraham Lincoln assassination.-Early life:...
: January 1898 - January 1906 - Henry L. StimsonHenry L. StimsonHenry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He twice served as Secretary of War 1911–1913 under Republican William Howard Taft and 1940–1945, under Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the latter role he was a leading hawk...
: January 1906 - April 8, 1909 - Henry A. Wise: April 8, 1909 - May 7, 1913
- H. Snowden Marshall: May 7, 1913–1917
- Francis Gordon CaffeyFrancis Gordon CaffeyFrancis Gordon Caffey was a United States federal judge.Born in Gordonsville, Alabama, Caffey received an M.A. from Howard College, Alabama in 1887, an A.B. from Harvard University in 1891, and another M.A. from Harvard University in 1892...
: 1917 - June 1921 - William Hayward: June 1921 - March 2, 1925
- Emory BucknerEmory BucknerEmory Buckner was a prominent U.S. lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he gained a reputation as one of the greatest prosecutors in American history...
: March 2, 1925 - April 6, 1927 - Charles H. TuttleCharles H. TuttleCharles Henry Tuttle was an American lawyer, politician and civic activist. He was the 1930 Republican nominee for governor in the election against Franklin D. Roosevelt.-Early life and education:...
: April 6, 1927 - September 1930 - Robert E. Manley (Acting): September 1930 - January 1931
- George Z. MedalieGeorge Z. MedalieGeorge Zerdin Medalie was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1907, and practiced law in New York City...
: January 1931 - November 21, 1933 - Thomas E. Dewey (Acting): November 22, 1933 - December 26, 1933
- Martin Conboy: December 26, 1933 - May 16, 1935
- Francis William Holbrooke Adams (Acting): May 16, 1935 - November 20, 1935
- Lamar Hardy: November 20, 1935 - March 1939
- Gregory Francis NoonanGregory Francis NoonanGregory Francis Noonan was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Noonan received an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1928. He was in private practice in New York City from 1928 to 1934. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York, Civil...
: 1938? - 1939 - John T. CahillJohn T. CahillJohn T. Cahill lawyer and prosecutor . Cahill served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and was the lead prosecutor in the trial of former United States Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton, which led to Manton's conviction. Cahill was the son of a New York City Police Officer who...
: March 1939 - March 1941 - Mathias F. CorreaMathias F. CorreaMathias F. Correa was a pioneer in U.S. intelligence, lawyer and prosecutor . Served as Acting United States Attorney and was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York . He graduated Fordham University, A.B., 1931 and Columbia...
(Acting): March 1941 - July 1941 - Mathias F. CorreaMathias F. CorreaMathias F. Correa was a pioneer in U.S. intelligence, lawyer and prosecutor . Served as Acting United States Attorney and was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York . He graduated Fordham University, A.B., 1931 and Columbia...
: July 1941 - June 10, 1943 - Howard F. Corcoran (Acting): June 10, 1943 - August 2, 1943-
- James B. M. McNally August 2, 1943 - October 9, 1944
- John F. X. McGoheyJohn F. X. McGoheyJohn F. X. McGohey was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, McGohey received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1917 and was in the United States Army during World War I, from 1918 to 1919. He received an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1923...
(Acting): October 9, 1944 - January 1945 - John F. X. McGoheyJohn F. X. McGoheyJohn F. X. McGohey was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, McGohey received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1917 and was in the United States Army during World War I, from 1918 to 1919. He received an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1923...
: January 1945 - October 1949 - Irving Saypol (Acting): October 1949 - April 13, 1950
- Irving Saypol: April 13, 1950 - September 18, 1951
- Myles J. Lane: September 18, 1951 - April 1, 1953
- J. Edward LumbardJ. Edward LumbardJoseph Edward Lumbard, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Lumbard was born in Harlem, New York City. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1920, while an undergraduate Harvard University, he was expelled by its "Secret Court" of 1920 for associating with a group of...
: April 1, 1953 - July 11, 1955 - Lloyd F. MacMahon (Interim): July 11, 1955 - September 1, 1955
- Paul W. Williams: September 1, 1955 - July 9, 1958
- Arthur H. Christy (Acting): July 9, 1958–1959
- S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr.Samuel Hazard Gillespie JrSamuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:Gillespie was born in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, and attended Yale College and Yale Law School ....
: 1959 - January 31, 1961 - Morton S. Robson (Acting): January 31, 1961 - April 18, 1961
- Robert M. MorgenthauRobert M. MorgenthauRobert Morris Morgenthau is an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County, the borough of Manhattan.-Early life:...
: April 18, 1961 - 1962 (resigned to run for Governor in New York state election, 1962) - Vincent Lyons BroderickVincent Lyons BroderickVincent Lyons Broderick was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....
(Acting): 1962 - Robert M. MorgenthauRobert M. MorgenthauRobert Morris Morgenthau is an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County, the borough of Manhattan.-Early life:...
: 1962 - January 16, 1970 (re-appointed by President Kennedy) - Whitney North Seymour, Jr.Whitney North Seymour, Jr.Whitney North Seymour, Jr. was a New York State Senator in the 1960s and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1970 to 1973....
: January 16, 1970 - June 4, 1973 - Paul J. Curran: June 4, 1973 - October 31, 1975
- Thomas J. CahillThomas J. CahillThomas J. Cahill was chief of police in San Francisco, California from 1958–70. People called him Tom. He was born June 8, 1910. His family repatriated to County Kilkenny, Ireland when he was a child and Cahill returned to San Francisco in 1930....
: October 31, 1975 - March 1, 1976 - Robert B. FiskeRobert B. FiskeRobert Bishop Fiske, Jr. is a prominent trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City...
: March 1, 1976–1980 - William M. Tendy: 1980
- John S. Martin, Jr.: 1980 - June 3, 1983
- Rudolph Giuliani: June 3, 1983 - January 1, 1989
- Benito RomanoBenito RomanoBenito Romano is the first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney's post in New York on an interim basis.-Early years:Romano's parents moved to New York City from Puerto Rico and settled down in the Bronx where he was born and raised. His grandfather, a dairy farmer, immigrated from...
(Acting): January 1, 1989 - October 16, 1989 - Otto G. ObermaierOtto G. ObermaierOtto Obermaier was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from September 1989 until February 1993. He was appointed to this position by George H. W. Bush....
: October 16, 1989 - June 1993 - Roger S. HayesRoger S. HayesRoger S. Hayes is a Criminal Court Judge in New York City. He also served as acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for part of June 1993....
: 1993 - Mary Jo WhiteMary Jo WhiteMary Jo White was the first woman to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002.White was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in McLean, Virginia. She received her B.S...
: June 1993 - January 7, 2002 - James B. ComeyJames B. ComeyJames B. Comey, Jr. was United States Deputy Attorney General, serving in President George W. Bush's administration. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and ran the day-to-day operations of the Department, serving in...
: January 7, 2002 - December 15, 2003 - David N. KelleyDavid N. KelleyDavid N. Kelley is an American attorney and a former United States Attorney and Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was also a co-chair of the United States Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the September 11 attacks.Kelley, who served as chief of the...
(Acting): December 15, 2003 - September 2005 - Michael J. GarciaMichael J. GarciaMichael J. Garcia is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.Mr. Garcia is the prosecutor in charge of the federal investigation against the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer....
: September 2005 - December 1, 2008 - Lev L. DassinLev L. DassinLev J. Dassin was acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from December 2008 until August 2009.Dassin received his bachelors degree from Cornell University and his JD from New York University School of Law. He was a law clerk for judge David N. Edelstein.Dassin served as an...
(Acting): December 1, 2008 - August 13, 2009 - Preet BhararaPreet BhararaPreetinder S. Bharara , commonly known as Preet Bharara, is U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:Bharara was born in 1968 in Firozpur, Punjab, India, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother...
: August 13, 2009 – Present
Prominent Assistants
- Bob ArumBob ArumRobert "Bob" Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division....
- Boxing Promoter - Bernard BellBernard Bell (attorney)Bernard Bell is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Bell received a B.A. cum laude from Harvard and a J.D. from Stanford, where he was notes editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif....
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. - Thomas E. Dewey - Governor of New York (1943–1954) and the unsuccessful RepublicanRepublican Party (United States)The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
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and 1948United States presidential election, 1948The United States presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Truman won, overcoming a three-way...
. - Louis FreehLouis FreehLouis Joseph Freeh was the 5th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving from September 1993 to June 2001....
- Former Director, Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of InvestigationThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime... - Patrick FitzgeraldPatrick FitzgeraldPatrick J. Fitzgerald is the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel...
- U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Illinois - Felix FrankfurterFelix FrankfurterFelix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.-Early life:Frankfurter was born into a Jewish family on November 15, 1882, in Vienna, Austria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Europe. He was the third of six children of Leopold and Emma Frankfurter...
- Former Associate JusticeAssociate JusticeAssociate Justice or Associate Judge is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the United States Supreme Court and some state supreme courts, and for some other courts in Commonwealth...
, U.S. Supreme Court - Rudolph Giuliani - Former Mayor of New York
- John Marshall Harlan IIJohn Marshall Harlan IIJohn Marshall Harlan was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971. His namesake was his grandfather John Marshall Harlan, another associate justice who served from 1877 to 1911.Harlan was a student at Upper Canada College and Appleby College and...
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, U.S. Supreme Court - Michael Mukasey - Former U.S. Attorney General
- Thomas Francis MurphyThomas Francis MurphyThomas Francis Murphy was a federal prosecutor and judge in New York City.-Biography:Murphy was born in New York. He attended Georgetown University and Fordham Law School, from which he graduated in 1930...
- federal prosecutor and judge in New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, best known as the prosecutor in the two perjury trials of Alger HissAlger HissAlger Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official...
. - Charles Rangel - U.S. Congressman (D-NY)
- Henry Dwight SedgwickHenry Dwight SedgwickHenry Dwight Sedgwick III was an American lawyer and author.-Early life and career:Sedgwick was in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery . On his paternal grandmother's side, he was part of the New England Dwight family...
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lawyer and author, brother of Ellery SedgwickEllery SedgwickEllery Sedgwick was an American editor, brother of Henry Dwight Sedgwick.-Early life:He was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery , grand daughter of William Ellery...
. - Franklin A. ThomasFranklin A. ThomasFranklin Augustine Thomas is the head of the TFF Study Group, a nonprofit institution assisting development in South Africa, since 1996; Chairman, September 11 Fund since 2001....
- Former Director, Ford FoundationFord FoundationThe Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford.... - Neil BarofskyNeil BarofskyNeil M. Barofsky was the Special United States Treasury Department Inspector General to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program into 2011, but submitted his resignation in February...
- Special Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program