Daniel S. Goldman

Daniel Goldman was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2007 until 2017, serving for his last three years as Senior Trial Counsel in the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. In that role, Daniel was the lead prosecutor in the insider trading case against William “Billy” Walters, who was convicted on all counts after a four-week trial in April 2017. From 2012 to 2014, Daniel served as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit and was responsible for overseeing a wide variety of prosecutions, including traditional organized crime, international organized crime, human trafficking, and white collar crime. As a supervisor, Daniel oversaw a significant international Russian Organized Crime prosecution against more than 30 defendants for Racketeering, gambling and money laundering. During his 10 years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Daniel prosecuted a variety of cases, including a number of securities fraud cases; RICO, securities fraud and health care fraud convictions against a number of individuals associated with Russian Organized Crime; and a racketeering and murder conviction against the Acting Boss of the Genovese Crime Family and other members and associates of the Genovese Crime Family. Since leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Daniel has offered legal commentary and analysis on CNN, MSNBC, and RNN/Fios1. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor in November 2007, Daniel clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer on the Northern District of California and the Honorable Robert D. Sack on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals after graduating from Stanford Law School. Before law school, Daniel was an Olympics researcher and writer for NBC, where he won three Sports Emmy awards for NBC’s coverage of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Olympics.