Tag Archives: Elizabeth Roper

White Collar Experts Discuss New DOJ Criminal Enforcement Priorities (Part II)

Editor’s Note: PCCE has been following the Trump Administration’s new approach to corporate criminal enforcement. In this post, which is the second in a 2-part series, PCCE invited leading white collar practitioners to discuss the new enforcement priorities and revisions to the DOJ Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP) outlined by Matthew Galeotti, Head of the Criminal Division for the DOJ, in a speech at the SIFMA Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference on May 12, 2025.

Left to right: Robertson Park, Elizabeth Roper, and Maria Piontkovska (photos courtesy of the authors)

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Cyber Experts React to Court Decision in the SEC’s SolarWinds Enforcement Action

Editor’s Note: PCCE has been watching the developments in the SEC’s enforcement action against SolarWinds and its CISO over allegedly misleading disclosures and controls failures related to the compromise of its Orion product by putative Russian hackers. In this post, cybersecurity experts and lawyers discuss the recent decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to dismiss most of the SEC’s claims in the case.

Top left to right: Randal Milch, Judy Titera, James Haldin, and Alan Wilson. Bottom left to right: Matthew Beville, Elizabeth Roper, and Jerome Tomas. (Photos courtesy of authors)

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Crypto Experts React to Recent SDNY Ethereum Fraud Indictment

The NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is following the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York’s recent indictment of two individuals for allegedly attacking and stealing $25 million from the Ethereum blockchain. The indictment in the case, United States v. Peraire-Bueno, 24 Cr. 293 (SDNY), is available here. Below, several crypto experts and former prosecutors provide their reactions to the case.

Left to right: Maria Vullo, Daniel Payne, Elizabeth Roper, Usman Sheikh, Justin Herring, and Robertson Park (photos courtesy of the authors)

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Former Prosecutors and Industry Experts React to Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Verdict

The NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is following the collapse of FTX and the civil and criminal enforcement actions arising from FTX’s and its founder’s alleged misconduct. In this post, several white collar defense, former federal prosecutors, and cryptocurrency experts, offer their reactions to the verdict in the Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) trial on November 2, 2023.

Top left to right: William Komaroff, Seetha Ramachandran, David I. Miller, and Ijeoma Okoli
Bottom left to right: Jessica Lonergan, Tarek Helou, Elizabeth Roper, and Chehak Gogia
(Photos courtesy of authors)

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Former Prosecutors React to Superseding Indictment in Sam Bankman-Fried Case

The NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is following the collapse of FTX and the civil and criminal enforcement actions arising from FTX’s and its founder’s alleged misconduct. In this post, several white collar defense attorneys and former prosecutors offer their reactions to the superseding indictment of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) obtained on March 27, 2023 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

Top row from left to right: Rebecca Mermelstein, Mark Racanelli, and Elizabeth Roper
Bottom row from left to right: William Komaroff, Seetha Ramachandran, and Joseph Facciponti (photos courtesy of authors)

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