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Thanks, . Do you mind letting me know if you get more inquiries on this, including from other outlets?
(Bloomberg has been contacting me, and I've been ignoring.)
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I meant I *won't share further!
Excited for you, and good luck!!
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Thanks, . I appreciate it.
On Feb 11, 2021, at 8:28 AM, (USANYS) < > wrote:
I obviously include this in clips or share further.
Just thought you'd want to see this if you already hadn't.
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3 Names To Watch As Biden Mulls Next SDNY Top
Prosecutor
By Pete Brush
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Law360, New York (February 10, 2021, 5:41
PM EST) -- President Joe Biden is ramping
up the process of choosing new top federal
prosecutors across the country, and while he
may not rush to replace Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Audrey Strauss, lawyers have their
eye on a handful of her potential successors.
The application process to helm the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the Southern District of
New York, a process that court-watchers say
is active and includes a large pool of
candidates, comes as the Biden
administration begins the work of replacing
U.S. attorneys appointed by former President
Donald Trump, who have all been asked to
step down.
But the president may not hurry to replace
Strauss, who in December was formally
appointed as U.S. attorney by federal judges
amid the chaos of the outgoing Trump
administration.
Strauss, who of late has brought high-profile
cases including sex-abuse charges against
Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine
Maxwelland ex-fashion executive Peter
Nygard, is well-regarded, and her presence
leaves the White House the luxury of taking
its time on SDNY if it wishes to prioritize
dozens of other districts across the country.
"She has a stellar reputation inside and
outside the office," Pace Law School
professor Bennett L. Gershman said of
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Strauss.
Nevertheless the application process is
underway in the Southern District, sources
said, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer, D-N.Y., holding powerful sway over
the process. Asked to handicap top possible
successors, lawyers named three people:
Damian
Williams is a veteran SDNY
prosecutor who heads the district's Securities
and Commodities Fraud Task Force. He
prosecuted former politicians Sheldon Silver
and Chris Collins in recent years, and is
widely regarded as a steadying presence
inside the halls at 1 St. Andrew's Plaza.
Williams, who would be the first Black person
to head the office, is a former law clerk for
D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick B. Garland,
Biden's nominee for attorney general who is
slated for a Feb. 22 confirmation hearing in
the Senate.
The Garland clerk chain, dozens strong,
could be fertile ground for possible picks,
lawyers said, on the theory that a pre-existing
relationship with the man who likely will lead
Biden's Department of Justice could be
valuable.
Katherine Goldstein
A white collar partner at Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld LLP, Katherine Goldstein is a
former SDNY Securities and Commodities
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Fraud Task Force chief with a sharp legal
mindwho has worked on modernizing and
improving insider trading enforcement. She
has handled a number of high-profile white
collar fraud cases.
After Strauss and Mary Jo White, who held
the post from 1993 until 2002, Goldstein
would be the third woman to take the job in its
more-than 200 year history, if confirmed.
Anjan Sahni
Like Williams and Goldstein, Anjan Sahni, a
WilmerHale white collar partner, is a former
SDNY Securities and Commodities Fraud
Task Force chief.
Sahni, who is of South Asian descent, also is
noted for his work on a defense team
that won acquittal for Citigroup trader Rohan
Ramchandani in a closely-watched forex rigging criminal trial.
Williams, Goldstein and Sahni are all said to
be friendly with, and have professional ties to,
former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet
Bharara, who was fired by the Trump
administration in 2017. Sources said Bharara
has a direct line to Schumer as the
application process unfolds.
--Editing by Jill Coffey.
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