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Daniel R. Alonso

Daniel R. Alonso

www.kayescholer.com
Partner
Kaye Scholer LLP
New York, New York

Daniel R. Alonso is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer whose practice is focused on internal investigations, white-collar defense, general civil litigation, and SEC enforcement. Before joining Kaye Scholer LLP, Mr. Alonso was the Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he supervised approximately 110 federal prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of a vast array of crimes, including securities fraud and other types of white collar crime, organized crime, public corruption, narcotics trafficking, computer crimes, terrorism and violent gangs. He was also responsible for setting policy, directly overseeing dozens of significant investigations and prosecutions, and coordinating the selection of federal monitors. In addition to his work for clients, Mr. Alonso currently serves as a Member of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity.

In nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Alonso handled many significant prosecutions as lead counsel, with an emphasis on cases of securities fraud, health care fraud, mail and wire fraud, labor racketeering and construction industry fraud, and bribery of police officers and other public officials. Among those cases are the successful prosecution of the perpetrators of a $200 million securities fraud at Stratton Oakmont, a notorious boiler room operation, including the conviction after trial of Stratton's outside auditor; the prosecution of more than 20 personal injury lawyers and their accomplices for their participation in a longstanding kickback scheme involving the settlement of negligence cases, including the conviction after a nine-week trial of the name partners of the largest law firm in Staten Island; a series of prosecutions that uncovered massive fraud and corruption in the construction of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's new headquarters in Manhattan, including the conviction of the project's developer, several union officials and several organized crime members and associates; and the conviction of more than three dozen members and officials of Local 1 of the International Union of Elevator Constructors for a decades-long no-show jobs scheme, including the imposition of a federal monitor on the union.

From 1990-1995, Mr. Alonso served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where he handled high-profile white-collar cases while assigned to the Frauds Bureau and the Special Prosecutions Bureau. Mr. Alonso has also served as law clerk to Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa of the New York Court of Appeals.

Mr. Alonso is a four-time winner of the Justice Department's Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and is a recipient of the Henry L. Stimson Medal, awarded by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York to outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Education
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1990, American Jurisprudence Award
B.A., Cornell University, 1987, with Distinction
Admissions
New York
Southern District of New York
Eastern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Tax Court