| Biography:
In June 2002, after a lengthy career as a federal prosecutor, including service
as the United States Attorney in New Jersey, Bob joined Proskauer Rose LLP as
a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and as Co-Chair
of the Firm's Corporate Defense and Investigations Practice Group.
Bob's broad-based prosecutorial and trial experience emphasized securities fraud
(in both regulated and unregulated markets), bank fraud, and tax fraud, especially
in cases involving complex accounting issues. Drawing on this extensive experience,
Bob concentrates his practice on SEC and related enforcement matters, white-collar
criminal defense, securities litigation, complex civil litigation, tax controversies,
and internal investigations. He has been retained in many of the high profile
corporate scandals of the day, including among others: the Tyco criminal investigation
and SEC enforcement action; the New York Attorney General's criminal and civil
investigation of investment bank trading practices; the mutual fund investigations
and enforcement actions; the insurance industry investigations and enforcement
actions; the Adelphia Communications accounting irregularities criminal investigation;
the New York Racing Association tax investigation; and the Enron bankruptcy proceeding. Bob also represents clients in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including, among other matters, defending an individual defendant in U.S. v. Kozeny, et al., 1:05-cr-00518-SAS (SDNY), the largest FCPA indictment brought to date, alleging $500 million in bribes purportedly made to the President of Azerbaijan, among others, representing multi-national companies in FCPA investigations and advising clients on compliance.
From 1999 to 2002, Bob served as United States Attorney in two different judicial
districts; the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of Illinois. In
those capacities, Bob was the chief federal law enforcement officer in those districts,
responsible for all federal prosecutions and lawsuits filed against the federal
government.
Before being appointed United States Attorney, Bob was the lead prosecutor in
the Unabomber case, United States v. Theodore J. Kaczynski. In that case,
Bob and his team of six prosecutors and over 100 federal agents successfully prosecuted
Kaczynski through trial and appeal for a string of bombings that Kaczynski perpetrated
from 1978 until 1995. Kaczynski currently is serving a life sentence.
Bob began his prosecutorial career as a trial attorney for the Tax Division of
the United States Department of Justice. While he was with the Tax Division, Bob
tried numerous tax cases to verdict in various jurisdictions throughout the country.
From 1987 to 1994, Bob served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern
District of New York, ultimately becoming the Chief of the Major Crimes Unit.
During his tenure in the Southern District of New York, Bob successfully prosecuted
through trial and appeal many complicated white-collar criminal cases involving,
among other things, tax fraud, securities fraud, and bank fraud.
From 1994 until his appointment as the Unabomber prosecutor in 1996, Bob was the
First Assistant United States Attorney in the District of New Jersey, responsible
for running the day-to-day operations of that 120-lawyer federal prosecutor's
office.
Bob is a frequent lecturer on trial practice and law enforcement matters. He consults
on a regular basis with Department of Justice and White House officials concerning
USA Patriot Act issues.
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