Alixandra E. Smith

Alixandra Smith is currently the Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. As Chief, Alix supervises the work of approximately 115 Assistant U.S. Attorneys in all of the Criminal Division’s practice areas. She previously served as the Chief of the Office’s Business and Securities Fraud Section, and in that role investigated, prosecuted and supervised a wide variety of white-collar matters against both individuals and entities, including fraud involving publicly-traded companies, market manipulation, insider trading, healthcare fraud, tax crimes, money laundering, cyber-enabled crimes and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”). Alix is also an adjunct professor at New York University Law School.

During her time in the Office, Alix led or co-led the investigation and prosecution of significant cases, including Shkreli and Greebel, in which the defendants were convicted of orchestrating four interrelated fraud schemes following back-to-back six-week and 11-week trials in 2017; Odebrecht, Braskem and related individual cases, in which two Brazilian companies and multiple individuals pled guilty to FCPA violations, and the companies paid a total penalty of $3.2 billion, for their roles in a scheme to obtain business by paying almost a billion dollars in bribes to government officials in 12 countries; AmerisourceBergen, in which the second-largest U.S. drug distributor pled guilty to a violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and paid a total penalty of $885 million for selling millions of oncology drug syringes to immunocompromised cancer patients nationwide that were prepared under insanitary conditions and contaminated; and Goldman Sachs and related cases, in which Goldman, its subsidiary and individuals were charged for their roles in a scheme to pay $1.6 billion in bribes to government officials and launder billions of dollars in criminal proceeds, and which was resolved when the subsidiary pled guilty to a FCPA violation, Goldman entered a deferred prosecution agreement and paid $2.9 billion in criminal penalties as part of a global resolution with eight different foreign and domestic authorities, and a Goldman banker was convicted of FCPA and money laundering charges after a nine-week trial.  

Alix is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable Faith Hochberg, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the Honorable Julio Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.