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Jocelyn E. Strauber

DOI Commissioner

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Jocelyn Strauber was sworn in as DOI Commissioner in February 2022 and has overseen an array of criminal investigations that include exposing and stopping public benefits fraud, negligence and corruption by construction contractors, and contraband smuggling by Department of Correction staff, among others. Commissioner Strauber has also issued an array of reports that include an investigation of fire safety and prevention in public housing and examinations of NYPD's criminal group database and, separately, how the risk of negative policing outcomes increases with overtime.

Commissioner Strauber’s legal career spans the public and private sectors. Most recently, as a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, she has represented individuals and institutions in civil and criminal enforcement actions involving suspected civil and criminal fraud and corruption offenses, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud and accounting fraud, as well as in corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Skadden, from 2005 to 2013, she was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she handled cases from investigation through trial and on appeal, across a wide variety of areas, from illegal gun possession to fraud to large-scale international narcotics trafficking. She was named Deputy Chief and then Co-Chief of the Terrorism & International Narcotics Unit; in those roles she supervised the successful prosecution of several high-profile terrorism and national security cases, including Faisal Shahzad (who attempted to bomb Times Square in May 2010). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award.

Earlier in her career, Commissioner Strauber clerked for the late William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. She also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Commissioner Strauber graduated with a B.A. from Brown University, magna cum laude, and received her J.D. with high honors from Duke University School of Law, where she served as managing editor of the Duke Law Journal.