1. Audrey Strauss was born on October 7,1947 and is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from June 20,2020, to October 10,2021.
13 Facts About Audrey Strauss
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Previously the deputy US Attorney, Strauss became the acting US Attorney after the previous US attorney, Geoffrey Berman, was fired by President Donald Trump at the request of Attorney General William Barr.
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Audrey Strauss was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Russian immigrants.
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Audrey Strauss's parents died when she was young, after which she and her brother were raised by family friends.
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Audrey Strauss then earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Kent Scholar.
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From 1976 to 1983, Audrey Strauss served as an Assistant United States Attorney at the Southern District of New York.
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Audrey Strauss successfully argued against attorney Roy Cohn in his attempt to overturn convictions of two Gambino family Mafia members.
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Audrey Strauss served as Chief of Appeals in the Criminal Division and as Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit.
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Audrey Strauss later served as General Counsel of Alcoa, an industrial corporation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Audrey Strauss has been a guest lecturer at Brooklyn Law School, the Fordham University School of Law, and Harvard Law School, teaching courses in trial advocacy.
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Audrey Strauss has served as a board member of The Innocence Project.
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Audrey Strauss returned to the Southern District of New York in 2018, serving as Deputy US Attorney under Geoffrey Berman.
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Audrey Strauss is married to John "Rusty" Wing, a defense attorney.