Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced three appointments on Feb. 15, including the expected move to make Marc P. Berger the new chief of the Criminal Division’s securities and commodities fraud task force. Mr. Berger, named to replace Christopher Garcia after his departure to Weil, Gotshal & Manges, was deputy chief of the task force, a slot that will now be filled by Anjan Sahni, who has served as co-chief of the terrorism and international narcotics unit since its creation in 2010. In turn, Mr. Sahni will be replaced by Jocelin Strauber, a seven-year veteran of the office who became deputy chief of the unit in 2010.
Mr. Berger is a 1999 graduate of the Virginia School of Law who clerked for Southern District Judge Richard Berman and worked as a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe before joining the office in 2002. Mr. Sahni, a 2001 graduate of Yale Law School, clerked for Second Circuit Judge Pierre Leval and then worked at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr before moving to the Southern District in 2005. Ms. Strauber is a 1998 Duke University School of Law graduate who clerked for both Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist before joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as a litigation associate and then joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2004.
