Suzanne Jaffe Bloom

Suzanne Jaffe Bloom

Suzanne Jaffe Bloom is a partner in Dewey & LeBoeuf's Litigation Department. Ms. Bloom's practice centers on representing institutional, corporate, and individual clients in white collar criminal and regulatory investigations and related proceedings; corporate internal investigations; ethics and compliance counseling; corporate governance matters; and complex commercial litigation. Before joining Dewey & LeBoeuf, Ms. Bloom served as Deputy Chief of the Long Island Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, overseeing its corporate fraud and complex white collar matters, including commercial fraud, securities fraud and criminal tax matters. Prior to that, Ms. Bloom served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for over six years, and thereafter, as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York for over two years. As a federal prosecutor, Ms. Bloom conducted numerous grand jury investigations and federal jury trials, with her primary practice dealing with white collar crime, ranging from public corruption to money laundering, tax fraud, commercial fraud and securities fraud. In addition, while a federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, Ms. Bloom served as a member of the Complex White Collar/Corporate Fraud Committee and as a member of the United States Attorney's Advisory Committee.

Since joining Dewey& LeBoeuf, Ms. Bloom has represented public and privately held corporations, corporate executives and other individuals, as well as special board committees, in connection with federal and local criminal investigations and internal investigations, involving a wide variety of issues, including allegations of healthcare fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accounting fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, official corruption, securities fraud and financial fraud. Ms. Bloom has also served as counsel to a state regulator in connection with its monitoring of several large insurance brokerage firms following a multi-state investigation involving allegations of bid-rigging and other wrongdoing. In addition, Ms. Bloom has assisted organizations with the development and implementation of compliance and remediation programs.

Ms. Bloom earned a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and the Horwitz Award for Excellence in Business Management. Ms. Bloom is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Ms. Bloom was in private practice in Manhattan, where she represented and counseled institutional, corporate and individual clients in connection with sophisticated commercial matters, including class action and antitrust litigation.

Representative Matters

Dewey & LeBeouf

· FCPA: Representation of an executive of a public company with worldwide operations in connection with a Department of Justice criminal investigation of alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act;

· HealthCare: Representation of a leading public pharmaceutical care company in connection with criminal and civil investigations by US Attorney's Offices and related False Claims Act litigation;

· Corporate Governance; Investor Litigation: Representation of an investor in a biotechnology company in connection with civil litigation involving organizational governance issues;

· Official Corruption: Representation of a private equity firm in connection with an investigation by the New York State Attorney General's Office of allegations of official corruption;

· Securities: Representation of the board of directors of a public software company in connection with an internal investigation of the conduct and stock trading activities of the company's CEO;

· Tax: Representation of an international financial institution in connection with a federal grand jury investigation involving allegations of violations of civil and criminal tax laws;

· FCPA; Money Laundering; Securities: Representation of the Audit Committee of several global advertising and marketing service companies in connection with its oversight of over 40 internal investigations conducted worldwide, involving allegations of, among other things, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering and accounting irregularities; the issuance of related financial restatements; and related SEC inquiries;

· Fraud; Theft; Embezzlement: Representation of a closely held corporation in connection with a federal criminal investigation involving allegations of fraud, theft and embezzlement;

· Insurance; Compliance Monitoring: Representation of a government agency in connection with the examination and compliance monitoring of several insurance brokerage companies in the wake of a multi-state investigation of alleged wrongdoing and the resulting settlement agreements;

· Tax; Organizational Governance; Compliance Counseling: Representation of the Executive Committee of a large professional services firm in connection with its investigation of allegations of wrongdoing and the development and implementation of a compliance program; and

· Ethics and Compliance Counseling: Counseling the Audit Committee of global advertising and marketing services companies in connection with its development and implementation of worldwide compliance and remediation plans concerning, among other things, compliance with the FCPA, related antibribery laws and anti-money laundering laws, following worldwide internal investigations of related issues.

United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

· Led investigation and successful prosecution of 15 present and former police officers and detectives with the New York City Police Department on various charges relating to their illegal tax protestor activities, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion;

· Responsible for the successful prosecution of construction contractors and attorneys on charges of bribery relating to construction contracts with the New York City Board of Education and the School Construction Authority;

· Led investigation of corruption within the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Ladies Apparel Contractors Association, resulting in the conviction of several labor union officials and garment contractors on labor racketeering charges, including conspiracy and bribery;

· Responsible for the successful prosecution of a DEA Special Agent and other DEA employees on charges relating to public corruption and narcotics conspiracies; and

· Led investigation of corruption at the New York Office of the United States Immigration & Naturalization Services, resulting in arrests and convictions of INS employees and brokers on various charges, including conspiracy, bribery, trafficking in fraudulently obtained INS documents, and establishing a commercial enterprise to evade the immigration laws.

United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

· Led investigation of corruption at the Village of Hempstead Housing Authority ("HHA") resulting in convictions of a former HHA supervisor, the former Director of Public Relations at the Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County, and a local contractor on extortion, bribery and tax charges;

· Led investigation and prosecution of 53 individuals charged in connection with fraudulent securities offerings attempting to raise over $48 million nationwide, resulting in convictions on various counts of securities fraud and related charges;

· Led several individual and corporate investigations and successful prosecutions involving conspiracies to defraud the United States and violations of the federal tax laws;

· Led investigation and successful prosecution of individuals involved in money laundering and fraud on behalf of owners and investors of medical imaging companies; and

· Led joint federal and state investigation of a nationwide fraud perpetrated by the principals of several loan brokerages and funding companies operating out of New York, resulting in convictions of principals on several counts of conspiracy and mail fraud.

Speeches and Programs

· Practicing Law Institute: "Internal Investigations 2008 - Legal, Ethical & Strategic Issues" (June 10, 2008, New York, New York).

· Practicing Law Institute: "Internal Investigations 2007 - Legal, Ethical & Strategic Issues" (June 12, 2007, New York, New York)

· Ethics and Compliance Officer Association - Sponsoring Partner Forum 2006: "Ask the Regulators" Panel Moderator (April 6, 2006, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico).

· CLE Program Presenter: "The Roles and Responsibilities of In-House and Outside Counsel in Coordinating Multiple Government Investigations and Related Civil Litigations" (June 8, 2005, New York, New York).

Awards and Recognition

· Recipient of 2007 Burton Award for Legal Achievement

Education

· Harvard Law School, 1988, J.D., cum laude

· State University of New York, Binghamton, 1985, B.S., summa cum laude, Recipient of the Horwitz Award for Excellence in Business Management

Bar Admissions

· New York

Court Admissions

· U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

· U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

· U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit