The NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is pleased to announce that Alicyn Cooley will be PCCE’s new Executive Director.  Ms. Cooley will assume her new position on September 15, 2019.

Cooley previously worked for seven years as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, investigating, conducting jury trials in, and handling appeals of federal criminal cases.  Most recently, Cooley served as Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section, leading and supervising some of the country’s most significant investigations and prosecutions of securities fraud (involving hedge fund investment fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, and cryptocurrency offerings), investment adviser fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.  Cooley also supervised the Office’s Healthcare Fraud Program.  In her earlier years as a prosecutor, Cooley investigated, tried, and argued the appeals of multiple murder and racketeering cases involving organized criminal enterprises.

Before working as a federal prosecutor, Cooley was a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and clerked for Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr., in the Second Circuit, and Judge John Gleeson in the Eastern District of New York.  Cooley received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University. 

Cooley also co-authors the treatise Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook.