{"id":71676,"date":"2025-12-15T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:36:08","slug":"exclusive-goldman-sachs-taps-hotshot-sdny-lawyer-robert-sobelman-to-run-internal-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71676\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Goldman Sachs taps hotshot SDNY lawyer Robert Sobelman to run internal investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goldman Sachs has hired Robert Sobelman <\/a>\u2014 a hotshot federal prosecutor who worked on the corruption case against outgoing mayor Eric Adams<\/a> that was controversially scrapped by the Trump administration \u2014 as its new head of investigations, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Sources close to Sobelman, an alum of Colgate University and Brooklyn Law School, said he is to join the David Solomon-led lender \u201cimminently.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert is leaving and going to run investigations at Goldman,\u201d said one senior source briefed on the matter. \u201cIt is part of a recent exodus in the Southern District of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sobelman, seen here pointing to disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti in a courtroom sketch, is understood to be joining Goldman Sachs \u201cimminently.\u201d AP<\/p>\n

Sobelman was not immediately available for comment. A Goldman Sachs<\/a> spokesperson declined to comment. <\/p>\n

The 39-year-old US attorney is currently the chief of the public corruption unit at the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. He\u2019s the latest in a string of high-profile exits from 26 Federal Plaza after the Trump administration ordered that the case against Adams be dropped.<\/p>\n

Those included former interim Manhattan US attorney Danielle Sassoon, a conservative Trump appointee who in February had refused to comply with Trump\u2019s order to drop the Adams case. <\/p>\n

At least 10 other federal prosecutors in Manhattan left this spring following the fracas.<\/p>\n

Sobelman was one of the hotshot corruption lawyers who worked on the charges against outgoing mayor Eric Adams before they were ultimately dismissed by a federal judge. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n

Sobelman\u2019s victories in the US Southern District included helping to jail disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez for bribery. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

Jay Clayton, who had served as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump\u2019s first term in the White House, became the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in August after serving on an interim basis since April. He replaced Damian Williams, a Joe Biden appointee.<\/p>\n

Sobelman\u2019s victories in the US Southern District included helping to jail disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez for bribery<\/a>. In 2022, he led the case against Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, who was jailed for attempting to extort Nike for $25 million.<\/p>\n

How The Post reported Avenatti\u2019s 2022 jailing following the Sobelman prosecution of the disgraced attorney.<\/p>\n

Avenatti, who was jailed on an initial 14-year sentence that was later reduced to eight, was also accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the porn star Stormy Daniels<\/a>, who claimed that she had sex with President Trump.<\/p>\n

Sobelman also helped prosecute the case against Steve Bannon, Trump\u2019s one-time chief strategist, over fraud allegations that overshadowed an online crowdfunding campaign known as \u201cWe Build the Wall\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bannon eventually pleaded guilty in February<\/a> to one count of scheme to defraud, a low-level felony, and avoided jail time.<\/p>\n

Sobelman\u2019s close friend David Kusnetz recently told Colgate University\u2019s magazine that Sobelman\u2019s \u201csuccessful prosecutions of powerful political figures are a testament to how he always approached challenges at Colgate \u2014 with integrity and grit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs has hired Robert Sobelman \u2014 a hotshot federal prosecutor who worked on the corruption case against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,7022,81,3414,57,9,24,11,10,87,5269,1069,23699],"class_list":["post-71676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-eric-adams","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-prosecutors","tag-trump","tag-us-attorney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71676","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=71676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}