Renée L. Jarusinsky

Renée L. Jarusinsky is an experienced white-collar practitioner, having spent the majority of her more than twenty-year career investigating and litigating complex financial crimes and corruption. Her cases have covered a broad range of activity including not-for-profit and government contract fraud, pension fraud, securities and accounting fraud, campaign finance schemes, identity theft and bank fraud, and more. She brings to her clients and her cases the perspective she gained from having been both a defense attorney and a prosecutor.

Select Engagements:

• Representing an individual in connection with an asset seizure by the U.S. government.
• Representing a Washington D.C. think tank in connection with allegations of violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
• Representing an individual in connection with allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's office that he engaged in "pump and dump" schemes of thinly-traded microcap stocks.
• Representing an individual in connection with insider trading allegations that he was a tipper and a tippee by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
• Advising a not-for-profit organization relating to issues stemming from the discovery of employee misconduct.

Prior to joining Ford O'Brien Landy, Renée served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office for more than a decade. Her most recent position was as Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption Unit ("PCU"), where she supervised corruption investigations conducted by Assistant District Attorneys, investigators, legal interns, paralegals, and other staff. In this role, she was a member of the supervisory team that oversaw the investigation into then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and his operatives relating to the financing of certain state senate campaigns. She also handled her own caseload, including a long-term investigation and subsequent prosecution of the head of two government-funded not-for-profit entities for stealing from the entities in myriad ways. Prior to her role as Deputy Chief, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in PCU, the Rackets Bureau, and a Trial Bureau, as well as a Major Case Assistant for the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau.

Prior to her work at the DA's Office, Renée served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Public Integrity Bureau at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she conducted complex civil and criminal investigations. There, she served on the team investigating then-Governor David Paterson for perjury and witness tampering. She also received the Louis J. Lefkowitz Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in connection with a statewide investigation of private attorneys who wrongfully received state pension benefits in connection with their representation of public entity clients.

Earlier in her career, Renée was an associate at two law firms, including Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, where she represented individuals and entities in connection with white collar criminal and civil matters, and commercial and civil rights litigation. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Owen, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Renée received her undergraduate degree from Purchase College, the State University of New York, and her law degree from Fordham University School of Law.

Renée recently founded The New Castelfranco Society, a virtual community of descendants of her grandmother's hometown in Italy, and she is conversational in Italian. She also serves on the Board of Directors of USA Friends of GCEC, Inc., a not-for-profit entity that provides financial support to a school in Kenya that she has visited several times.