More Top Lawyers Named For NYC

New York’s Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has named James G. Sheehan as the new Chief of the Attorney General’s Charities Bureau and Gary Fishman, a veteran financial crimes prosecutor, to serve as Chief of the newly formed Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau, which will focus on prosecuting complex and large-scale financial crimes. Sheehan has more than 30 years of high-level experience working as an attorney for the city, state and federal governments, and will be tasked with oversight of not-for-profit corporations and charitable trusts under several New York State laws. The Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau, headed by Fishman, expands the Attorney General’s former Criminal Prosecutions Bureau. The reorganization will focus on criminal enforcement, including combating complex financial crimes in bank and financial institution fraud; securities and investment fraud; money laundering; tax crimes; mortgage fraud; investment schemes, and insurance fraud.