Biography
Douglas S. Zolkind has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York since 2014. He serves in the Public Corruption Unit, where he focuses on investigating and prosecuting cases involving domestic and foreign corruption, money laundering, fraud, and related offenses. Mr. Zolkind has successfully prosecuted several complex white-collar trials, including United States v. Ng Lap Seng, in which a billionaire Macau-based real estate developer was convicted on FCPA, domestic bribery, and money laundering charges arising from a corruption scheme at the highest levels of the United Nations; United States v. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, in which a former top Hong Kong official was convicted on FCPA and money laundering charges based on a scheme to bribe African officials for oil rights; and United States v. Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos, in which the former Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, were convicted on bribery and extortion charges.
Mr. Zolkind graduated summa cum laude from Cornell Law School in 2008. He clerked for Hon. P. Kevin Castel, U.S. District Court S.D.N.Y., from 2008-09; clerked for Hon. Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, from 2009-10; and worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 2010-14, primarily on matters in the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense group.