US prosecutor who targeted spoofing misconduct leaves DOJ
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The seal of the United States Department of Justice is seen on the building exterior of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File PhotNEW YORK - The head of the U.S. Justice Department's team in Washington tasked with prosecuting market manipulation and fraud has left the agency to join a law firm focused on business litigation.
Avi Perry, who has led the Fraud Section's market integrity and major frauds team for two years, has joined the Washington office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. Perry will be co-chair of the firm's securities litigation and commodities and derivatives practices, Quinn Emanuel said in a statement.While at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Connecticut, Perry took on the 2018 prosecution of a former UBS metals trader accused of market manipulation.
Perry joined the DOJ's Fraud Section in 2018 and led a series of high-profile prosecutions resulting in the convictions of 12 bankers at Wall Street financial institutions on spoofing, fraud, and market manipulation charges, Quinn Emanuel said. That work included cases against former employees of some of the world's largest financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase & Co will also be removed; self-promotional material or business-related solicitations or PR , and/or any other comment that contains personal contact specifcs or advertising will be removed as well. In addition, any of the above-mentioned violations may result in suspension of your account.
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