Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Litigation

Richard D. Weinberg has substantial expertise and experience in representing individuals and corporations in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the United States Department of Justice, and state regulatory agencies, and in conducting corporate internal investigations. He represents clients in highly sensitive and complex civil litigation and regulatory enforcement matters such as those involving allegations of improper trading, misleading or incomplete disclosure, market manipulation, accounting fraud, FCPA violations, and other forms of financial fraud. He also represents individual and corporate clients in parallel investigations conducted by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice.

Partner, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC, 1993; Assistant General Counsel and First Vice President, Merrill Lynch, 2000 – 2006; Law Clerk, Honorable Harold R. Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Assistant Special Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force; Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York; Chief Appellate Attorney, Southern District of New York; Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Investigation, City of New York.

Columbia University Law School (J.D., Editor, Columbia Law Review), 1972; Cornell University (B.S.), 1969.