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Jamie McDonald has assumed the role of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.\u00a0 Earlier today, Judge Laura Taylor Swain, Chief District Judge for the Southern District of New York, informed the Office that the Court has appointed Mr. McDonald to serve as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 546(d), upon U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton\u2019s resignation.\u00a0Yesterday, Mr. Clayton was confirmed by the Senate to serve as Director of National Intelligence.\u00a0 Mr. Clayton tendered his resignation as U.S. Attorney, effective earlier today.\u00a0 Mr. McDonald was sworn in as the U.S. Attorney by Chief Judge Swain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sean S. Buckley will continue in his role as Deputy United States Attorney, Amanda Houle will continue in her role as Chief of the Criminal Division, and Jeff Oestericher will continue in his role as Chief of the Civil Division as contemplated in the\u00a0transition announcement<\/a>\u00a0of July 8, 2026.<\/p>\n Mr. McDonald previously served in the Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division until 2017.\u00a0 In that role, Mr. McDonald participated in significant organized crime, white collar, and violent crimes prosecutions, including those of\u00a0senior members of the Genovese Organized Crime Family<\/a>; the sitting\u00a0New York State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver<\/a>; and a\u00a048-defendant rival street gangs case<\/a>.<\/p>\n From 2017 to 2020, Mr. McDonald served as the Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he had overall responsibility for all aspects of the CFTC\u2019s enforcement program, including its investigations, litigations, and market surveillance activities.\u00a0 Under his leadership, the agency prioritized cases involving market manipulation, other forms of market abuse, and fraud, as well as the pursuit of parallel actions with the Department of Justice.\u00a0 Notably, during the last year of Mr. McDonald\u2019s time at the CFTC, the agency brought an unprecedented number of enforcement actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following his tenure at the Southern District of New York and the CFTC, Mr. McDonald served as a Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he was Co-Head of both the firm\u2019s Securities & Commodities Investigations Practice and its Commodities, Futures and Derivatives Group.\u00a0 While at Sullivan & Cromwell, Mr. McDonald also served as an Adviser to the American Law Institute\u2019s Principles of Compliance, Risk Management, and Enforcement.\u00a0 Mr. McDonald previously served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School and as a Senior Fellow at New York University Law School\u2019s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.<\/p>\n Earlier in his career, Mr. McDonald served as a law clerk to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.\u00a0 From 2008 to 2009, Mr. McDonald served as a Deputy Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel.<\/p>\n Originally from Oklahoma, Mr. McDonald graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and from Harvard College. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie McDonald has assumed the role of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.\u00a0 Earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-313395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313395","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=313395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}