Eric Corngold
Eric Corngold leads the firm's white-collar criminal defense and investigations practice. He represents businesses, their executives, and their employees during federal and state criminal investigations, as well as in regulatory matters involving the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state government agencies. He also conducts internal investigations for corporations and other institutions on behalf of officers, boards of directors, and audit committees.
As New York State's Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice from 2007 to 2009, Mr. Corngold was the principal advisor to the New York Attorney General on litigation and policy concerning financial markets, antitrust matters, corporate and consumer fraud, and housing. He also supervised more than 100 attorneys statewide in the office's Investor Protection, Consumer Protection, Antitrust, Internet Frauds, and Real Estate Finance bureaus. In that role, Mr. Corngold led broad-ranging initiatives in a number of different legal areas. Among the ground-breaking matters that Mr. Corngold spearheaded was the Attorney General's auction rate securities investigation, which resulted in settlements with eleven major international financial institutions, returning more than $51 billion to investors and resulting in over $597 million in fines. Mr. Corngold similarly led the Attorney General's civil action against Intel Corporation, the largest government antitrust case brought in the last decade. Mr. Corngold also personally handled numerous matters including arguing Cuomo v. Thain in New York Supreme Court in 2009, in which he successfully defended a challenge to the Attorney General's investigative powers under New York's Martin Act.
Prior to his time in the New York Attorney General's Office, Mr. Corngold was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York for more than a decade. In that office, Mr. Corngold had a number of different positions, including serving as the office's Chief Assistant United States Attorney from 2005 to 2007, and the Chief of the office's Business and Securities Frauds Unit from 1999 to 2005. He is, according to the Wall Street Journal, "credited with transforming the Brooklyn office into a major player in criminal securities prosecutions." In addition to his supervisory responsibilities, Mr. Corngold personally conducted more than fifteen felony trials and investigated and prosecuted major tax, insider trading, corporate and securities fraud, and corruption matters. He also argued a dozen cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2003, Mr. Corngold was awarded the Henry L. Stimson Medal for outstanding contribution to the Office of the United States Attorney by the New York City Bar Association.
Mr. Corngold has been selected for inclusion by Law & Politics in Super Lawyers® 2011 New York Edition for having attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the multiphase Super Lawyers selection process which includes, among other factors, peer evaluation. Mr. Corngold also received this designation in 2010.
Mr. Corngold received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and was a law clerk to United States District Judge Charles P. Sifton of the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Corngold frequently lectures on white-collar crime, securities law, and criminal procedure topics, and is currently an adjunct Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law, where he teaches that school's course on White Collar Crime.
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