Daniel R. Alonso Daniel R. Alonso is a Managing Director based in Exiger s New York office, where he focuses on monitorships, investigations, and financial crime compliance (including anti-bribery and corruption). A lawyer and former high-ranking federal and state prosecutor and ethics official, he brings a distinguished enforcement career of more than 20 years to Exiger. At Exiger, Mr. Alonso has led monitorships, other third-party assignments, complex investigations, and compliance reviews. He also serves as Exiger s General Counsel. James Gatta James Gatta is a partner in Goodwin s Government Investigations and Enforcement and White Collar Defense practices. His practice focuses on representing U.S. and multinational companies and individuals with respect to government and internal corporate investigations, white collar criminal defense, regulatory compliance and related civil litigation, and complex commercial litigation. Before joining the firm, Mr. Gatta served as the Chief of the Criminal Division at the United States Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). In that role, Mr. Gatta oversaw all of the EDNY s criminal investigations and prosecutions, including some of the nation s most significant corporate and securities fraud, public corruption, foreign bribery, cybercrime, sanctions and export enforcement, international terrorism and organized and violent crimes cases. Mr. Gatta served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY for over a decade, where he held a number of leadership positions and handled a range of cases. As Chief of the EDNY s Public Integrity Section, Mr. Gatta led a team of experienced federal prosecutors in investigations, prosecutions and trials involving corruption and white collar offenses, including those involving elected and appointed government officials, such as bribery and embezzlement as well as financial, honest services, campaign finance and tax fraud. Among other cases, he managed and led investigations that resulted in the convictions of New York State legislators and a sitting U.S. congressman. Mr. Gatta is an experienced courtroom advocate and has successfully tried several federal criminal trials and argued numerous federal criminal appeals. He also earned a number of awards and commendations for his work as a prosecutor. In 2017, he received an Executive Office of United States Attorneys Director s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and was named a Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation in 2011. Mr. Gatta previously served as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law, where he co-taught a seminar on federal litigation. Before his tenure at the EDNY, Mr. Gatta was an associate at Goodwin and represented individuals and entities in white collar criminal and regulatory matters. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Frank Maas in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, Mr. Gatt was a New York City Urban Fellow.
Kristine Hamann Kristine Hamann is the Executive Director and founder of Prosecutors Center for Excellence (PCE). PCE provides consulting and research services for prosecutors and supports statewide prosecutor-led Best Practices Committees. The Best Practices Committees are devoted to proactively improving the criminal justice system and assessing emerging issues. Ms. Hamann is a consultant for prosecutors of all sizes across the country on a variety of topics including fulloffice assessments, investigating violent crime, conviction integrity, discovery, body worn cameras, ethics and enhancing community trust. Many of these engagements are paid through federal grants. Ms. Hamann regularly presents at national and statewide prosecutor meetings on issues including the evolving role of the prosecutor, ethics, witness intimidation, eye witness identification procedures and conviction integrity units. From July 2013 to January 2016, Kristine Hamann was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Justice/Bureau of Justice Assistance. She is the chair of the New York State Best Practices Committee for prosecutors and she is a co-chair of the National District Attorneys Association s Best Practices Committee. She is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School. She is a member of the ABA Criminal Justice Council and is on the ABA Criminal Justice Journal Editorial Board. She was an Independent Counsel to the Conviction Integrity Unit of the United States Attorney s Office for the District of Columbia. From 2008 to 2013, Ms. Hamann was the Executive Assistant District Attorney for the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of the New York. The office conducts international, national and local drug trafficking investigations and prosecutions which impact New York City. From 2007 to 2008, Ms. Hamann was the New York State Inspector General. The Inspector General is charged with investigating and preventing fraud, waste and abuse in New York State government. From 1998 to 2007, Ms. Hamann served as the Executive Assistant District Attorney to D.A. Robert M. Morgenthau in the Manhattan District Attorney s Office in New York City. Prior to 1998, Ms. Hamann held several other positions in the Manhattan District Attorney s Office, including Deputy Chief of the Trial Division in charge of the Criminal Court, Director of Training, and Deputy Bureau Chief of the Career Criminal Bureau. After law school she was an associate at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett in New York City. She has received various awards including the Ethics and Accountability Award (City & State NY, 2018); Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year (NY State Bar Association, 2013), Prosecutor of the Year for Executive Leadership (NY District Attorneys Association, 2010), Excellence in Government Award (Albany Law School, 2008), Public Service Award (NY County Bar Association, 2005) and New York County District Attorney s Office Prosecutor of the Year (2001).
Todd Kaminsky From the courtroom to the capitol, Todd Kaminsky has dedicated his life to public service, delivering real results for New Yorkers. Todd first worked as a prosecutor for nearly a decade, bringing corrupt politicians, fraudsters, drug dealers and violent criminals to justice. As Acting Deputy Chief of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York's Public Integrity Section, covering Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles. These prosecutions included former State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr., Assemblyman Jimmy Meng and Congressman Michael Grimm. New York Magazine said Todd was particularly good at convicting corrupt legislators. Todd also went after drug kingpins and other major felons, such as notorious gangster James Jimmy Henchman Rosemond, for which he was presented with the True American Hero Award from the Federal Drug Agents Foundation. Prior to his work as a federal prosecutor, Todd served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens County District Attorney s office, where he prosecuted domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other crimes. During his time as a prosecutor, Todd also worked vigorously as a community advocate for the South Shore. He organized free legal clinics for those affected by superstorm Sandy, and helped bring tens of thousands of dollars in relief funds to local residents. For his efforts, he was awarded the Community Service Award from the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Long Beach Martin Luther King Center s Sandy Relief Service Award. After winning election to the State Legislature in 2014, Todd represented New York s 20th Assembly District on Long Island, where he passed the most bills of any freshman Assemblymember in the chamber's history and the fourth-most bills of the legislative session. He played a leading role in calling for ethics reform in state government, as noted in Newsday, who said newly elected reformers such as Todd Kaminsky of Long Beach, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted public corruption cases, are demanding new standards of behavior. Locally, Todd championed the effort to reopen an emergency room on the Long Beach Barrier Island, succeeded in stopping National Grid from charging Sandy victims for gas connections when rebuilding their homes, and led the opposition to the Port Ambrose offshore Liquefied Natural Gas terminal. Governor Cuomo announced his veto of the proposed project alongside Todd in November 2015. In April 2016, the people of the South Shore elected Todd to the State Senate to continue fighting for Long Islanders. As a Senator, Todd has been a crusader for clean government, tax relief and quality education, and a vigorous advocate for the environment, individuals with disabilities, veterans, first responders, and Israel. Todd is a leader on ethics reform, sponsoring legislation to strip pensions from corrupt officials, ban outside income for politicians, strengthen anti-bribery laws, bolster penalties for public corruption and protect taxpayer dollars by increasing oversight of local government contracting. Following the overturned conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Todd wrote a
guest column in the New York Daily News advocating for ethics reform while laying out a plan to restore New Yorkers trust in government. Todd was named one of City & State s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars and one of the New York Observer s Top 40 Albany Power Players. Todd received his law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University, and his bachelor s degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan. Todd and his wife, Ellen, have been married since 2010. They live in Long Beach with their sons Rafe and Rory. Miriam Krinsky Miriam Aroni Krinsky is the Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a project that supports and inter-connects recently elected leaders of prosecutors' offices committed to new thinking and innovation. She has spent the past few decades working in public service, justice system reform and academia, including 15 years as a federal prosecutor -- both in Los Angeles and on a strike force in the Mid-Atlantic region. During that tenure, she served in the Central District of California as Chief of the General Crimes Sections, Chief of the Criminal Appellate Section, chaired the Solicitor General s Advisory Group on Appellate Issues and served on the Attorney General s Advisory Committee on Sentencing. More recently Miriam spearheaded a project in Chicago to provide research and ideas on best practices to newly elected State s Attorney Kim Foxx. In 2012, Miriam served as the Executive Director of Los Angeles County s Citizens Commission on Jail Violence, a high-level Commission appointed to investigate allegations of excessive force by Los Angeles Sheriff s deputies in L.A. County jails. Thereafter, Ms. Krinsky served as the Transition Team Director and post-election Special Advisor to a newly Sheriff committed to reforming the LA Sheriff s Department. She has taught at the UCLA School of Public Policy and at Loyola and Southwestern Law Schools, with a focus on youth at risk and juvenile justice issues, served as a policy consultant on youth violence prevention, juvenile justice, and justice reform issues for The California Endowment and spent five years as the Executive Director of the Children s Law Center of Los Angeles a 200-plus person legal services organization representing over 20,000 abused and neglected children. She also served on various bodies including as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (the first lawyer from the public sector to hold that office), on the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission (serving as Commission President for three years), on the California Judicial Council and California State Bar Board of Trustees and on the American Law Institute Sentencing Project Advisory group and the ALI Principles of Policing Advisory Group. She has testified before national and state legislative bodies, authored over 50 articles, and lectured nationwide on criminal law, law enforcement oversight and reform, juvenile justice, and sentencing issues.
Daniel Richman Daniel C. Richman is the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Richman is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters. Richman was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at Fordham Law School before joining Columbia Law School s faculty. In 2004, Richman was appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as chairman of the Local Conditional Release Commission. He is currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey. Richman's scholarly writings include more than 30 law review articles. He has offered testimony as an expert in a number of congressional hearings, and state, federal, and international criminal and civil matters.