Tag Archives: Seetha Ramachandran

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

Editor’s Note: PCCE has been following the Trump Administration’s new approach to corporate criminal enforcement. In this post, 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.

Top left to right: Paul Krieger, Michael Chang-Frieden, Sharon Cohen Levin, and Andrew J. DeFilippis
Bottom left to right: David Massey, Jamie Schafer, Seetha Ramachandran, and William C. Komaroff
(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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Former Federal Prosecutors React to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Arrest

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 former federal prosecutors offer their initial reactions to the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and the criminal case brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

The photo shows the headshots of the authors of the post

From Left to Right: John Savarese, David Anders, Seetha Ramachandran, Jaimie Nawaday, and Eugene Ingoglia

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