La Cosa SDNY: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Renowned United States Attorney’s Office

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Southern District of New York – the United States Attorney’s Office based in Manhattan – is the most renowned federal prosecutor’s office in the Department of Justice—and it knows it. It has a famous independence and swagger, which it has earned with a long string of high-profile prosecutions, particularly of organized crime figures. Friends of President Trump have long identified the SDNY as a bigger threat to his presidency than Robert Mueller. What makes this office tick, and so consistently excellent? Three long time assistants and supervisors in the office sit down with Talking Feds host Harry Litman to detail what life and work is really like in the SDNY. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings together prominent
0:12.4	former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:19.0	I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General
0:24.3	and a current Washington Post columnist.
0:27.1	Today I'm in New York City with three colleagues and former officials and you can cut the
0:34.7	mystique with a knife here.
0:36.5	We have three hot shots from the Southern District of New York and we are going to be talking
0:43.9	about the Southern District of New York, the vaunted office we've heard so much about
0:49.0	over the last couple years.
0:51.1	So you know many of them but first Mimi Rokka returns to Talking Feds.
0:56.4	Mimi is Pace Law's Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice and a legal analyst for MSNBC
1:04.0	and NBC News.
1:06.1	She was for many years in AUSA and then a supervisor in many leadership positions in the
1:11.9	office of the US Attorney for the Southern District.
1:15.3	Mimi, welcome back.
1:17.3	Thanks Harry, great to be here in person with you.
1:20.0	We are also joined again by Jennifer Rogers, a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a
1:25.8	long time member of the SDNY who had more, who logged more time between the two of you.
1:32.1	Mimi, Mimi logged more by about three years maybe two or three years.
1:35.9	But John was there first.
1:37.2	I see.
1:38.2	You can track no connection that would be right.
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