30 Facts About Robert Khuzami

Robert S Khuzami was the Deputy US Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York until March 22,2019.

Robert Khuzami previously was a United States federal prosecutor and Assistant United States Attorney for the office, and a former director of the Division of Enforcement of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Robert Khuzami's parents were professional ballroom dancers of Lebanese descent and had a dancing school.

Robert Khuzami attended Rush-Henrietta Senior High School, graduating in 1974.

Robert Khuzami received a Juris Doctor degree in 1983 from Boston University School of Law.

Robert Khuzami was a prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Manhattan's Southern District of New York from 1991 to 2002.

Robert Khuzami announced his intention to continue legal pursuit of Bennett on all counts for which the jury did not reach a decision.

Robert Khuzami was not convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, the main charge.

Robert Khuzami was sentenced to 22 years, later extended to 30 because his then-wife did not turn over assets to repay investors.

Robert Khuzami prosecuted those accused of assassinating Meir Kahane, and plotting the murders of Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Robert Khuzami supervised some of the initial investigation in New York following the September 11,2001 attacks.

In 2002, Khuzami was hired by Richard H Walker to work at Deutsche Bank in New York as Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations, where he oversaw litigation and regulatory investigations.

In 2009 Robert Khuzami was appointed by US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro to succeed Linda Chatman Thomsen after the SEC had come under public criticism for failing to detect Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Robert Khuzami's appointment was controversial because of his employment at Deutsche Bank, a global investment firm which did business with Goldman Sachs.

Robert Khuzami was portrayed as an outsider by some but had 11 years' experience as a federal prosecutor.

Robert Khuzami left top salaries in place, but forced administrators back into investigations.

Robert Khuzami created a new system to collect, organize, investigate and data mine tips and complaints, tens of thousands of which are received by the SEC every year.

Robert Khuzami obtained Commission approval to delegate to senior staff the authority to issue subpoenas without preapproval, and created the first-ever Office of the Chief Operating Officer for the Division to handle IT, project management, budget, HR and similar issues that previously had been handled by lawyers.

Robert Khuzami's initiatives are the largest restructuring of the Enforcement Division in its 40-year history.

Robert Khuzami served as co-chair of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group of President Obama's federal-state Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, created in 2009 to prosecute securities and other fraud arising out of the financial crisis.

Robert Khuzami strongly disputed the concerns raised about the cooperation program in a February 18,2011 letter addressed to Senator Grassley.

Robert Khuzami noted that the cooperation program was fully supported by all five SEC commissioners in a January 2010 policy statement, and in doing so recognized the value that cooperators bring to the enforcement program.

Robert Khuzami described how the DOJ makes its own decisions about how to resolve its cases, and has its own procedures and considerations for evaluating and handling potential cooperators, which they would not and could not delegate to the SEC.

The value of the cooperation program was recently underscored when Robert Khuzami issued a public statement in connection with the AXA Rosenberg Group LLC case.

Robert Khuzami said Shapiro asked him to reply to questions raised by Grassley regarding the destruction of documents.

Robert Khuzami commuted from Washington DC to New York City while serving as Deputy US Attorney, and left the position in March 2019 to return to his home and family in Washington DC.

On September 3,2019, Robert Khuzami joined financial services firm Guggenheim Partners as Managing Partner and Chief Legal Officer.

Robert Khuzami resigned from his position as Director of Enforcement and ended his employment with the SEC in January 2013, after four years of service.

Robert Khuzami has been profiled by OpenSecrets as a featured Revolver in its Revolving Door database.

Robert Khuzami donated a maximum individual contribution of $2,300 to the presidential campaign of John McCain.