{"id":268661,"date":"2026-06-16T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:24:02","slug":"meet-the-sullivan-cromwell-partner-who-is-the-presidents-pick-to-serve-as-manhattan-us-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268661\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Sullivan &#038; Cromwell Partner Who Is the President&#8217;s Pick to Serve as Manhattan US Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/news\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Government<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 text-sm text-neutral-80\">James McDonald, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, and currently a Sullivan &amp; Cromwell litigation partner, has drawn a favorable response from the office. McDonald co-heads S&amp;C\u2019s securities and commodities investigations practice and its commodities futures and derivatives group.<\/p>\n<p>4 minute read June 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsGovernment James McDonald, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, and currently a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-268661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}