Mintz Levin Expands White Collar Crime and Corporate Investigations Practice in New York
1/8/2007
Bridget Rohde, Former Criminal Division
Chief of U.S. Attorney's Office, Joins as Member
New York, NY - Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., a full-service, 450-lawyer AmLaw 100 firm with offices throughout the U.S. and in the U.K., announced that Bridget Rohde, the former Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, has joined the firm as a Member in the White Collar Criminal and Corporate Investigative Practice in New York.
During her tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Ms. Rohde directed complex federal investigations involving business and securities fraud, organized crime and racketeering, terrorism and violent criminal enterprises, narcotics, public integrity, obstruction of justice, tax offenses and money laundering. In addition, she worked to develop and implement strategies regarding national and district-wide law enforcement policies, including business and government integrity, corporation fraud and gang prosecutions.
"While at the U.S. Attorney's office, Bridget set the highest standard as a leader and a prosecutor," said Robert Bodian, head of the firm's New York office. "Together with Peter Chavkin, also a former federal prosecutor, Bridget is a major addition to the strength of the first-rate white collar practice in the New York office and expands the depth of the firm's national practice as well. We are delighted to welcome her to the firm."
Among Ms. Rohde's cases was the prosecution and conviction of a powerful La Cosa Nostra captain for racketeering involving illegal domination of the scrap metal industry. Her background also includes extensive work with several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Labor as well as several local agencies. Graduating magna cum laude from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, MD, Ms. Rohde earned her law degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law. She is admitted to practice in New York, Washington D.C. and Maryland.
Ms. Rohde marks the third former federal prosecutor to join the firm within the last year. Peter Chavkin, a former Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and the head of Mintz Levin's white collar defense practice in New York, previously served as a special assistant to the head of the United States Department of Justice's Civil Division in Washington. Jonathan Rosen, a former senior trial attorney in the fraud and public corruption section of the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia, joined as a Member in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
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