United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York - wikipedia United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Department of Justice U.S. Attorney 's Office for the Southern District of New York Seal of the United States Department of Justice Department overview Department executive Geoffrey Berman ( ad interim ), U.S. Attorney Website justice.gov/usao/nys/ The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties : Manhattan ( New York County ), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan. Geoffrey Berman currently serves as interim United States Attorney, since replacing Acting Attorney Joon Kim on January 5, 2018. Preet Bharara was the district 's last confirmed U.S. Attorney, having been appointed under President Barack Obama in 2009. Bharara served until March 11, 2017, when he was fired by President Donald Trump, shortly after refusing to resign upon request. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney. The New York Times has called the office `` one of New York City 's most powerful clubs. '' Dozens of former assistant U.S. Attorneys who worked there go on to prominent careers both in private practice and at the federal level. Because of the office 's resources, pursuit of high - profile cases, independence from presidential administrations and transitions, and tenacity, it is sometimes referred to as the `` Sovereign District of New York '' -- sometimes along with its accompanying FBI field office. Contents 1 Succession 2 Organization 3 List of U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York 4 Notable assistants 5 In popular culture 6 References 7 External links Succession Preet Bharara had taken over the post from Lev L. Dassin, who was acting as the interim U.S. Attorney after Michael J. Garcia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005, stepped down in December 2008 to join the partnership of New York law firm Kirkland & Ellis. Organization United States Southern District of New York counties The Office is organized into divisions handling civil and criminal matters. The Southern District of New York also has two offices : one in Manhattan, and one in White Plains. The Office employs approximately 220 Assistant U.S. Attorneys. List of U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York In 1814, the District of New York was divided into the Northern and the Southern District. The next year, the first U.S. Attorneys for the new districts were appointed. Jonathan Fisk : 1815 -- 1819 Robert L. Tillotson : 1819 -- February 1828 John Duer : February 1828 -- April 1829 James A. Hamilton : April 1829 -- 1834 William M. Price : 1834 -- December 10, 1838 Benjamin F. Butler : December 10, 1838 -- 1841 Ogden Hoffman : 1841 -- 1845 Benjamin F. Butler : 1845 -- 1848 Charles McVean : Sept. -- Dec. 1848 Lorenzo B. Shepard : Dec. 1848 or Jan. 1849 -- April 1849 Jonathan Prescott Hall : April 1849 -- 1853 Charles O'Conor : 1853 -- 1854 John McKeon : 1854 -- 1858 Theodore Sedgwick : 1858 -- 1859 James I. Roosevelt : 1859 -- 1861 E. Delafield Smith : April 1861 -- April 1865 Daniel S. Dickinson : April 1865 -- April 12, 1866 Samuel G. Courtney : April 1866 -- April 25, 1869 Edwards Pierrepont : April 25, 1869 -- July 20, 1870 Noah Davis : July 20, 1870 -- December 31, 1872 George Bliss, Jr. : December 31, 1872 -- January 24, 1877 Stewart L. Woodford : January 24, 1877 -- March 12, 1883 Elihu Root : March 12, 1883 -- July 6, 1885 William Dorsheimer : July 6, 1885 -- March 1, 1886 Stephen A. Walker : March 1, 1886 -- September 16, 1889 Edward J. Mitchell : September 16, 1889 -- February 1, 1894 Henry C. Platt ( Acting ) : February 1, 1894 -- July 23, 1894 Wallace Macfarlane : July 23, 1894 -- January 1898 Henry Lawrence Burnett : January 1898 -- January 1906 Henry L. Stimson : January 1906 -- April 8, 1909 Henry A. Wise : April 8, 1909 -- May 7, 1913 Hudson Snowden Marshall : May 7, 1913 -- 1917 Francis Gordon Caffey : 1917 -- June 1921 William Hayward : June 1921 -- March 2, 1925 Emory Buckner : March 2, 1925 -- April 6, 1927 Charles H. Tuttle : April 6, 1927 -- September 29, 1930 Robert E. Manley ( Acting ) : September 29, 1930 -- January 1931 George Z. Medalie : January 1931 -- November 21, 1933 Thomas E. Dewey ( Acting ) : November 22, 1933 -- December 26, 1933 Martin Conboy : December 26, 1933 -- May 16, 1935 Francis William Holbrooke Adams ( Acting ) : May 16, 1935 -- November 20, 1935 Lamar Hardy : November 20, 1935 -- March 1939 Gregory Francis Noonan : 1938 ? -- 1939 John T. Cahill : March 1939 -- March 1941 Mathias F. Correa ( Acting ) : March 1941 -- July 1941 Mathias F. Correa : July 1941 -- June 10, 1943 Howard F. Corcoran ( Acting ) : June 10, 1943 -- August 2, 1943 -- James B.M. McNally August 2, 1943 -- October 9, 1944 John F.X. McGohey ( Acting ) : October 9, 1944 -- January 1945 John F.X. McGohey : January 1945 -- October 1949 Irving Saypol ( Acting ) : October 1949 -- April 13, 1950 Irving Saypol : April 13, 1950 -- September 18, 1951 Myles J. Lane : September 18, 1951 -- April 1, 1953 J. Edward Lumbard : April 1, 1953 -- July 11, 1955 Lloyd F. MacMahon ( Interim ) : July 11, 1955 -- September 1, 1955 Paul W. Williams : September 1, 1955 -- July 9, 1958 Arthur H. Christy ( Acting ) : July 9, 1958 -- 1959 S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr. : 1959 -- January 31, 1961 Morton S. Robson ( Acting ) : January 31, 1961 -- April 18, 1961 Robert M. Morgenthau : April 18, 1961 -- 1962 ( resigned to run for Governor in New York state election, 1962 ) Vincent Lyons Broderick ( Acting ) : 1962 Robert M. Morgenthau : 1962 -- January 16, 1970 ( re -- appointed by President Kennedy ) Whitney North Seymour, Jr. : January 16, 1970 -- June 4, 1973 Paul J. Curran : June 4, 1973 -- October 31, 1975 Thomas J. Cahill ( Interim ) : October 31, 1975 -- March 1, 1976 Robert B. Fiske : March 1, 1976 -- 1980 William M. Tendy ( Acting ) : 1980 John S. Martin, Jr. : 1980 -- June 3, 1983 Rudolph Giuliani : June 3, 1983 -- January 1, 1989 Benito Romano ( Interim ) : January 1, 1989 -- October 16, 1989 Otto G. Obermaier : October 16, 1989 -- June 1993 Mary Jo White : June 1993 -- January 7, 2002 James B. Comey : January 7, 2002 -- December 15, 2003 David N. Kelley ( Interim ) : December 15, 2003 -- September 2005 Michael J. Garcia : September 2005 -- December 1, 2008 Lev L. Dassin ( Acting ) : December 1, 2008 -- August 13, 2009 Preet Bharara : August 13, 2009 -- March 11, 2017 Joon Kim ( Acting ) : March 11, 2017 -- January 3, 2018 Geoffrey Berman ( Interim ) : January 3, 2018 - Notable assistants Bob Arum -- Boxing promoter Neil Barofsky -- Special Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program Bernard Bell -- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at Rutgers School of Law -- Newark Thomas E. Dewey -- Governor of New York ( 1943 -- 1954 ) and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948 Louis Freeh -- former director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Patrick Fitzgerald -- U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Illinois Felix Frankfurter -- Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Rudolph Giuliani -- former Mayor of New York John Marshall Harlan II -- Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Arthur L. Liman -- criminal defense attorney Michael Mukasey -- former U.S. Attorney General Thomas Francis Murphy -- federal prosecutor and judge in New York City ; prosecutor in the two perjury trials of Alger Hiss Mary Grace Quackenbos - first woman to hold this post in the United States Charles Rangel -- U.S. Congressman ( D -- NY ) Henry Dwight Sedgwick -- American lawyer and author Franklin A. Thomas -- former director, Ford Foundation In popular culture In the TV series Billions, a show based on former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara 's prosecutions against SAC Capital and other hedge funds, Paul Giamatti plays a character based on Bharara. References Jump up ^ For Manhattan 's Next U.S. Attorney, Politics and Prosecution Do n't Mix, The New York Times, August 9, 2009. Jump up ^ Haberman, Maggie. `` Preet Bharara Is Fired After Refusing to Step Down as U.S. Attorney ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2017. Jump up ^ A Steppingstone for Law 's Best and Brightest, New York Times, January 29, 2009. Jump up ^ Weiser, Benjamin ; Rashbaum, William K. ( March 10, 2017 ). `` With Preet Bharara 's Dismissal, Storied Office Loses Its Top Fighter ''. New York Times. In past presidential transitions, the storied office, long known to be so independent of Washington that some people referred to it as the Sovereign District of New York, has in large measure moved forward unaffected by politics. Jump up ^ Beale, Sara Sun ( 2011 ). `` What Are the Rules if Everybody Wants to Play ? ''. In Barkow, Anthony S. ; Barkow, Rachel E. Prosecutors in the Boardroom : Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate conduct. NYU Press. p. 206. ISBN 9780814787038. Finally, in some multijurisdictional cases there have been turf battles rather than cooperation. For example, the U.S. Attorney 's Office in the Southern District of New York... Press accounts have noted the perception that the `` ' Sovereign District of New York '... does n't necessar ( il ) y play well with others. '' Jump up ^ Ashcroft, John ( 2006 ). Never Again : Securing America and Restoring Justice. Center Street. p. PT160. ISBN 9780759568730. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York ( sometimes referred to by Justice Departments insiders as ' the sovereign district ' of New York because of its high - profile cases and independence ). Jump up ^ Ragavan, Chitra ( March 26, 2001 ). `` The pardon buck stops in New York : U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White takes the lead ''. U.S. News & World Report. Vol. 130 no. 12. p. 24. The Bush administration has left the answer largely in the hands of White, a registered independent, whose office, because of its legendary independence and tenacity, is known as the ' sovereign district. ' Jump up ^ McDermott, Terry ; Meyer, Josh ( 2012 ). The Hunt for KSM : Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9 / 11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Little, Brown. p. PT42. ISBN 9780316202732. This was sometimes referred to -- mockingly, but enviously, too -- as the Sovereign District of New York. It was in many ways a separate fiedfdom from the rest of the Bureau, creating its own rules and procedures. The agent in charge of the office, unlike all but one other agent in charge, held the rank of an assistant director of the entire FBI. '' Jump up ^ The Man Who Took Down Spitzer, The Daily Beast, December 9, 2008 Jump up ^ Organization and Operation, U.S. Attorney 's Office Jump up ^ Tallerico, Brian. `` Billions Recap : Agents of Chaos ''. Vulture. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 25. External links United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Official Website Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Attorney_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York&oldid=843964683 '' Categories : United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York Prosecution Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Edit links This page was last edited on 1 June 2018, at 17 : 19 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: us attorney for southern district of new york
Answer: Geoffrey Berman (ad interim)