Alumni Gazette

ASKING QUESTIONS: Khuzami leads the investigation as deputy U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. (Photo: Matthew Hinton/AP Images)

The United States Attorney’s investigation of Michael Cohen, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, is being led by Robert Khuzami ’79. Named deputy United States attorney for the Southern District of New York last January, Khuzami took on the role after interim U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, a Trump appointee, recused himself from the case.

Khuzami began his legal career in the same office. As a prosecutor there from 1991 to 2002, he won the conviction of Omar Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He also won several high-profile convictions as head of the office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. From 2009 to 2013, he led the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission.