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US Legal Luminary Takes Senior Role At Regulatory, Financial Crime Advisory Firm
EXIGER, a regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has appointed a veteran of public and private sector law who once dealt with the real-life “Wolf of Wall Street” as well as advise top-level US legal officials.
EXIGER, a regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has appointed a veteran of public and private sector law who once dealt with the real-life “Wolf of Wall Street” as well as advise top-level US legal officials.
The company is based in New York and London.
Daniel Alonso has been named managing director and general counsel. He previously worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he most recently served as the chief assistant district attorney during the first term of District Attorney Cyrus R Vance, Jr. While in that role, he advised the DA on matters including those related to financial crimes, money laundering, securities and banking crime, and corruption.
A statement from EXIGER said Alonso was the author of the first publicly-issued policy by a local prosecutor’s office regarding the standards to be used in charging business organizations, patterned after the Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations.
Prior to the DA’s office, Alonso was a litigation partner at the international law firm of Kaye Scholer, where he focused on internal investigations, white-collar defense, and civil litigation; and was the federal-court-appointed receiver of IATrading.com, whose principal perpetrated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 300 investors.
Before joining the private sector, Alonso was the Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he served for nine years in total as an Assistant US Attorney.
The firm said Alonso “was the first prosecutor to call `Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort as a cooperating witness for the United States in the trial of Stratton Oakmont’s outside auditor”. Belfort’s life was later used as a basis for a recent Hollywood movie starring Leonard DiCaprio.
