Senate Confirms Eric Komitee, Ex-Hedge Fund GC, as Eastern District US Judge
Eighty-six senators voted in favor of Komitee's confirmation and just four voted against.
December 03, 2019 at 03:11 PM
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Eric Komitee testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York on Aug. 1, 2018. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Eric Komitee, a lawyer who most recently spent 10 years as general counsel at the Manhattan hedge fund Viking Global Investors, as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Komitee, 48, has experience in the Eastern District, where he worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office from 2000 to 2008. He handled cyber crime cases and eventually led the business and securities fraud section, according to the biography he submitted to the Senate.
From there, he joined Viking Global Investors, which manages about $25 billion for institutional investors. He left that role in June 2018, shortly after he was nominated by President Donald Trump.
In a financial disclosure form submitted to the Senate, Komitee reported his net worth was nearly $60 million. He lives in Brooklyn, according to the form.
After graduating from New York University School of Law, Komitee clerked for Judge J.L. Edmondson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He worked briefly at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in the late 1990s before becoming a federal prosecutor.
Eighty-six senators voted in favor of Komitee's confirmation and just four voted against. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, voted for confirmation, while U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, did not vote.
He is the second Eastern District judge confirmed in recent months, bringing the total number of judicial vacancies in the district down to three. Trump has nominated candidates for two of those seats, but they are waiting to be confirmed by the Senate.
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