PRACTICE AREAS INCLUDE: WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE AND GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS; ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND TRADE SANCTIONS ENFORCEMENT; INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS; MONITORSHIPS, INTEGRITY COUNSEL, AND COMPLIANCE; AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Tucker Levin, PLLC
Tucker Levin, PLLC provides highly skilled representation and strategic advice to individuals, families, and companies in complex domestic and international business affairs, internal investigations and white collar regulatory and criminal matters. Tucker Levin, PLLC is dedicated to achieving successful outcomes for its clients through meticulous preparation, thoughtful counseling and leveraging unique relationships.
Duncan LevinManaging Partner
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Duncan Levin is a highly respected expert in the space of anti-money laundering, internal investigations, and anti-fraud. After a lengthy career at senior levels of state and federal law enforcement, Mr. Levin now regularly consults with a variety of businesses facing complex challenges, including regulatory, investigatory, and anti-fraud issues.
Mr. Levin served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice specializing in money laundering and asset forfeiture and on the senior staff of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he was Chief of Asset Forfeiture and supervised money laundering cases. As the forfeiture chief for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., Mr. Levin oversaw all criminal and civil asset forfeiture and money laundering on a wide variety of cases, including international corruption, white-collar fraud, identity theft, organized crime, terrorist financing, and narcotics cases. He was the primary liaison with U.S. Department of Justice on the forfeiture of $1.9 billion in the HSBC OFAC sanctions case and $350 million in Standard Chartered OFAC sanctions case, as well as the OFAC/AML cases against BNP Paribas and ING. Mr. Levin managed a full-time staff of dedicated prosecutors and support personnel and supervised forfeiture and monetary recoveries on cases involving more than 500 Manhattan assistant district attorneys. Mr. Levin was the original drafter of a criminal forfeiture and criminal monetary recovery statute that was included in Gov. Cuomo’s 2012 budget proposal. Mr. Levin also ran all aspects of the District Attorney’s restoration of forfeited funds to crime victims and coordinated with the Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”) Team with respect to federal money laundering cases, Title 31 and other Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) cases. Mr. Levin was cross designated as a Special Assistant Attorney General to supervise forfeiture aspects of People v. Joseph Stevens and Co., Inc., a securities fraud case. He was appointed counsel to the procedure committee of the White Collar Crimes Task Force of the District Attorney’s Association of the State of New York, and he is a member of the New York State Forfeiture Law Advisory Group. Prior to joining the District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Levin served as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he handled money laundering, asset forfeiture, and BSA cases. He reported in that position to U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who is now the United States Attorney General. Mr. Levin is a graduate of Yale College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and Yale Law School. He started his legal career as a line prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, focusing on financial crime. He clerked for Hon. Nicholas G. Garaufis on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and has worked in private practice. Mr. Levin has lectured extensively on money laundering, suspicious activity reporting, AML/OFAC, and asset forfeiture for the U.S. Department of Justice and the District Attorney’s Office. He serves on the Criminal Law committee of the Bar Association for the City of New York. |
Peter KatzOf Counsel
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Peter Katz is Of Counsel to Tucker Levin, after a seventeen-year career as a state and federal prosecutor and litigator in four of the nation’s most respected prosecutorial offices.
Mr. Katz has litigated thousands of cases, having tried more than fifty federal and state cases. Peter concentrates his criminal practice in white-collar criminal defense, with notable expertise in the areas of healthcare fraud and other financial fraud, such as securities, bank, mortgage, wire and mail fraud. Mr. Katz has successfully defended dozens of individuals charged with both federal and state criminal offenses. Mr. Katz's civil practice includes representing whistleblowers with regard to fraud against the government, with particular focus in the health care and financial industries. In eight years working for Robert Morgenthau at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Katz led some of the most difficult and complex criminal investigations in the office. He developed his investigative and analytical skills during the nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Offices in the Eastern District of New York, District of New Jersey and the Fraud Section at Main Justice. He has led numerous complex investigations, including one of the last prosecutions related to the downfall of Enron. He also focused on health care fraud allegations as a leading member of the Department of Justice’s highly acclaimed Health Care Fraud Section. Mr. Katz has investigated numerous qui tam allegations, resulting in the prosecution of individuals and business organizations. In addition to representing individuals in investigations and prosecutions, Mr. Katz testifies nationwide as an expert regarding healthcare fraud investigations. He lends his expertise to assist healthcare, life sciences and medical device entities in establishing, reviewing and modifying their regulatory compliance programs. He has also acted as a Monitor and as a member of an Independent Review Organization. He has been an adjunct professor at Rutgers University School of Law and Rider University, teaching Healthcare Fraud and Abuse, Rights of the Accused, and Criminal Justice Practice. In addition to his law degree, Mr. Katz has been Certified in Health Care Compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association. |
Alexandra StantonOf Counsel
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Alexandra Stanton is an attorney with a proven record of international executive leadership in business, technology, and public-private partnerships. As co-founder and CEO of Empire Global Ventures LLC, she has orchestrated the successful launch of operations in multiple foreign markets including China, India and Turkey, raised venture and working capital for expansion and development, identified U.S. and foreign partners for joint ventures, and facilitated export promotion to and from the United States.
Ms. Stanton has worked in the E.U., Washington, D.C., and New York. She has held senior positions in large public enterprises, including the NYC Mayor’s Office of Appointments, the Empire State Development Corporation (New York State’s economic development agency) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. A veteran of state and national campaigns, Ms. Stanton has also worked in Paris for Doctors of the World, implementing their international organizational development programs. In addition, Ms. Stanton has advised numerous family offices, private foundations and other institutions on philanthropy, estate succession and management. In 2013, Ms. Stanton was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board of Trustees of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as Vice President of the Board of the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, New York, Vice President of Doctors of the World – USA, and as Vice-Chair of J Street. She also serves on New York State’s Tourism Advisory Council. Ms. Stanton received her B.A. from Cornell University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the New York Bar. Fluent in French, she resides in New York City with her husband and two children. |