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Steven Feldman is a lead partner in the White Collar Defense practice. Prior to joining Herrick, Steven spent more than six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan where he tried numerous cases.  During his last four years as a federal criminal prosecutor, Steven served in the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.  There, Steven investigated and prosecuted cases under the federal securities laws, including hedge fund frauds, accounting fraud, insider trading, fraudulent offerings of securities and commodities, market manipulation and broker bribery, private placement frauds, and boiler room schemes—often while coordinating parallel proceedings with the SEC, CFTC and court-appointed receivers.

Steven also investigated and prosecuted extortion, bank fraud, public corruption, identity theft, copyright and immigration crimes. He prosecuted criminal organizations involved in the distribution of controlled substances, and headed up a large-scale wire tap investigation involving the trafficking and seizure of significant quantities of narcotics resulting in numerous convictions. Steven handled complex sentencing, forfeiture and restitution proceedings. He tried numerous criminal cases that resulted in guilty verdicts for the government, and briefed and successfully argued numerous appeals before the Second Circuit.

• Insider Trading:  Steven has experience both prosecuting and defending individuals charged with Insider Trading by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  
  
• Public Corruption:  Steven has represented witnesses in federal criminal investigations and prosecutions involving cash payments to politicians.
  
  
• Hedge Fund Fraud:  Steven investigated and prosecuted the operator/hedge fund manager for a domestic hedge fund and off-shore hedge fund, who acquired large, undisclosed positions in publicly traded companies and made significant misrepresentations to investors, resulting in losses of approximately $88 million to hedge fund investors, with media coverage in the New York Times and Reuters.
   
  
• Broker-Bribery & Stock Broker Misappropriation:  Steven investigated and prosecuted a number of financial industry professionals for paying bribes to stock brokers in exchange for purchasing certain stock for their clients' accounts.  Steven also prevailed at a three week trial against a supervisory level stock broker charged with securities fraud for stealing clients' investment funds, resulting in a sentence of 14 years' imprisonment.
  
  
• Foreign Exchange Fraud:  Steven investigated and successfully prosecuted 13 individuals involved in a $7.9 million foreign currency exchange scheme that defrauded more than 200 investors, and involved the funneling of funds overseas to Russia and Cyprus, with media coverage in the New York Post, Associated Press and Reuters.
  
  
• Stock Manipulation:  Steven successfully prosecuted and prevailed at a two-week trial against a securities law attorney who perpetrated a stock manipulation, pump-and-dump scheme involving small cap stocks traded on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, resulting in a sentence of approximately eight years' imprisonment.
  
  

Steven graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the law review and was selected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he clerked for then-Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Following his clerkship, he spent three years at Orans, Elsen, Lupert & Brown, which he left in December of 2001 to join the U.S. Attorney's Office.