Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:28 p.m. No.10362709   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2719 >>2733 >>2739 >>2824 >>2836 >>3063 >>3325 >>3396

https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/who-is-audrey-strauss-chief-federal-prosecutor-manhattan-southern-district-ny-geoffrey-berman-william-barr-20200621.html

 

Who is Audrey Strauss, the woman stepping in as Wall Street’s next top cop?

by Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg News, Posted: June 21, 2020

 

Barr fires Berman, SDNY.

Audrey Strauss in his temporary replacement.

She is the one who just indicted Bannon.

 

Seems pretty clear that she just walked into a trap and is exposing all the DS 5th column players at SDNY

Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:30 p.m. No.10362733   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2739 >>2836 >>3063 >>3325 >>3396

>>10362709

 

>Who is Audrey Strauss, the woman stepping in as Wall Street’s next top cop?

 

 

NEW YORK — Audrey Strauss emerged as the next chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan after her former boss, Geoffrey Berman, agreed to leave the job Saturday, ending a confrontation with Attorney General William Barr. In a statement, Berman said he decided to step down because Barr reversed course on a plan to appoint an outsider as his immediate replacement and instead named Strauss acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

 

Berman called Strauss the “smartest, most principled, and effective lawyer” he has ever worked with and said the office, the most important in the country for prosecuting white-collar crime and policing Wall Street, could be “in no better hands.”

 

Who is Strauss?

Strauss, 72, has been Berman’s second-in-command since April 2019, but her history in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s Office stretches back more than four decades. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School, Strauss first became a Southern District federal prosecutor in 1976. She served in the office until 1983 and then worked in Washington as a staff lawyer in the independent counsel investigation into the Reagan-era Iran-Contra affair.

 

Before rejoining the Southern District in 2018, Strauss had a long career in the private sector, including stints as a partner at New York law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and as chief legal and compliance officer at Alcoa Corp., where she oversaw the aluminum producer’s $384 million settlement in 2014 of federal probes into whether it paid bribes to members of Bahrain’s royal family and officials at a state-owned company. Strauss also previously served as a board member on the Innocence Project, a non-profit that seeks to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners.

 

What’s her reputation?

 

The Southern District’s leading role in prosecuting white-collar crime, terrorism, political corruption and organized crime is buttressed by its longstanding reputation for independence, such that it is frequently referred to as the “Sovereign District of New York.” Barr’s original plan to shuffle top New Jersey federal prosecutor Craig Carpenito into Berman’s role raised alarm bells, but the choice of Strauss showed the attorney general would “respect the normal operation of law” and maintain the office’s independence, Berman said. His predecessor, Preet Bharara — who was also fired after refusing to quit — likewise tweeted Saturday that the office will “continue the long tradition of integrity and independence” under Strauss.

 

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Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:31 p.m. No.10362739   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10362709

>>10362733

>Who is Audrey Strauss, the woman stepping in as Wall Street’s next top cop?

 

cont

 

How long will Strauss be in the role?

Strauss would step aside once a new U.S. attorney is confirmed by the Senate, but there are indications that President Donald Trump’s proposed nominee, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton, could have trouble clearing that hurdle. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally and Judiciary Committee chairman, has said he won’t move forward on Clayton’s nomination without the consent of New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Schumer has already called for Clayton to withdraw and for Congress to investigate the circumstances of Berman’s dismissal. Clayton has also never worked as a prosecutor before and spent many years representing Wall Street banks as a partner at New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

 

Berman himself was never confirmed, though. Several months after Trump fired Bharara, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions named Berman to a 120-day interim appointment that was subsequently made permanent by the district court judges. It’s unclear if a similar appointment might be planned for Clayton.

 

What cases has Strauss worked on as deputy?

Over the past year and a half, Strauss has played a supervisory role in some of the Southern District’s highest-profile cases, including one that reportedly led to friction between Berman and the White House. Her name appears in documents relating to the case that led Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to plead guilty to campaign finance violations. She also signed the Oct. 16 indictment of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Bryan Cohen, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to passing tips about deals involving Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. and Syngenta AG to a Swiss trader as part of an international insider-trading ring.

 

What are the politically sensitive cases she will inherit?

There is an ongoing probe into Trump’s lawyer and political ally, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, himself a former Southern District U.S. attorney. The office is examining his efforts to secure political dirt in Ukraine on Trump’s 2020 opponent Joe Biden and has already brought charges against two of Giuliani’s associates. There has also been a long-running investigation into Deutsche Bank, a major lender to Trump’s companies.

 

The office is currently prosecuting Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank for allegedly helping Iran evade sanctions on billions of dollars in oil funds. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claims in his upcoming book that Trump promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the Halkbank “problem” would be “fixed” once “his people” controlled the Southern District.

 

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Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:36 p.m. No.10362824   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2848 >>2941

>>10362709

>Audrey Strauss

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Strauss

 

registered democrat

investigating Rudy and other Trump associates and Rs

 

nothing to see here but a dumb DS person who fell into a trap…imho

Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:45 p.m. No.10362941   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3050 >>3063 >>3325 >>3396

>>10362824

>Audrey Strauss

 

Audrey Strauss' husband is John 'Rusty' Wing a prominent criminal defense attorney who defended a fellow lawyer against chilld pornagraphy charges

 

https://www.jdjournal.com/2018/02/13/former-skadden-partner-disbarred-for-child-pornography/

 

>Edmund Duffy

Summary: A former Skadden Arps partner convicted of child pornography has been disbarred by the New York Appellate Division.

 

A former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner was convicted of child pornography, resulting in an automatic disbarment by the New York Appellate Division, First Department. Edmund Duffy had practiced law for fifty years until it all came to an end. The attorney was disbarred Thursday a result of the conviction for charges of child pornography against him in July 2016.

 

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Duffy had a successful career as an attorney, gaining prestige when he became the head of Skadden’s China practice, according to Law.com. A 1994 book by Lincoln Caplan detailed the law firm’s success called, “Skadden: Power, Money and the Rise of a Legal Empire.” Duffy’s work in China was a big part of the firm’s growth.

 

Eventually, Duffy moved to an of counsel role at Skadden before retiring in early 2016. Just a few months later he was charged in Manhattan’s federal court with possession of child pornography after he participated in a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network that the FBI gained access to. The FBI alleged that Duffy possessed and accessed child pornography through his computer at his Manhattan Upper West Side home from 2011 and 2016. The images were of prepubescent minors shared through the P2P network. FBI special agents working undercover gained access to the network, monitoring its users and activity. This is where they found Duffy, who used the screen name “Daddisc.”

 

The authorities issued a search warrant of his residence in June 2016, where he admitted to the agents that he enjoyed “images and videos of adults and children between the ages of 10 and 14 being spanked.” They seized a laptop and portable flash drives from his apartment.

 

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Duffy was arrested on July 19, 2016, posting a $500,000 bond so he could be released on bail. He cooperated with federal prosecutors and U.S. attorney Catherine Geddes. He agreed to computer monitoring, mental health evaluations, no unsupervised contact with minors, searches of his phone, and travel restrictions. The then 75-year-old entered a not guilty plea January 2017, but soon after changed it to guilty.

 

>Duffy was represented by John “Rusty” Wing, a criminal defense attorney and partner at Lankler Siffert & Wohl. Wing was also a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges for nearly three decades. Wing argued for the transcript of the sentencing hearing to be sealed, but was unsuccessful. He also argued for leniency because the child pornography images were less extreme and could be considered art in some places.

Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:50 p.m. No.10362995   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10362886

good point.

 

do you really think Trump would take out Berman and put leave a die-hard Democrat Trump hater in charge if he didn't know what she was going to do?

 

Even moar, CNN just showed Bannon coming out smiling big with not a care in the world.

You think he wasn't aware of what was coming his way?

 

I have a feeling the Q drops last night were moar for Bannon or about Bannon than anything else.

 

heck, they could have been made by BAnnon.

 

He knew the 5th column of NYSD cabal was indicting him today. He was probably given a heads up.

 

that stupid prosecutor just exposed all the DS in her office and she is too dumb to know what she did.

Anonymous ID: 076476 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:56 p.m. No.10363072   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10363037

She is not even charging Bannon with using the funds for himself but funneling them to a paraplegic vet, Brian Kolgage.

 

God, these people are sick

 

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