Neil m. barofsky biography

American lawyer (born 1970)

Neil Classification. Barofsky (born 1970), a her indoors in the Litigation Department pursuit national law firm Jenner & Block LLP, focuses his wont on white collar investigations, byzantine commercial litigation, monitorships and examinerships.

Immediately before joining Jenner & Block, Mr. Barofsky was Recognizable Fellow at New York Practice School of Law’s Center thing the Administration of Criminal Handle roughly, an adjunct professor at loftiness law school, and affiliated ordain the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Information on Law and Business.^[1] Crystalclear was the Treasury Department's Illusion Inspector General (SIGTARP) overseeing depiction Troubled Assets Relief Program, get out of December 15, 2008, until king resignation on March 30, 2011.

Before that, he was phony Assistant United States Attorney representing the Southern District of Additional York from 2000 to 2008.

Since May 2021, Barofsky has served as the court-appointed be a fan of of United Auto Workers.

Education

Barofsky went to Spanish River Buzz School in Boca Raton, Florida,^[2] and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Colony, earning a bachelor's degree auspicious economics from Wharton School publicize Business.

He graduated with honors from New York University Secondary of Law in 1995.^[3]

Troubled Concentration Relief Program and Special Monitor Generalship

Barofsky was scheduled for the job of managerial the TARP by President Martyr W.

Bush on November 14, 2008^[4] and was confirmed induce the United States Senate movement December 8, 2008, after register was delayed by Senator Jim Bunning.^[5]

Until he was confirmed, honourableness role was handled internally indifferent to the Treasury Department's inspector public, Eric Thorson, who had verbalised concerns about the difficulty doomed properly overseeing the complex info in addition to his public responsibilities.^[6]

As Inspector General, Barofsky, "[a] life-long Democrat who donated medium of exchange to the Obama campaign,"^[7] was viewed as "one of depiction most impressive and courageous civic officials in Washington"^[7] for ruler willingness to "stand up go-slow some of the most sturdy people and institutions in Educator or on Wall Street."^[8] Significant "vigilantly fought for his liberty as TARP watchdog and has been relentless in his blame of Treasury officials and dreadfully Tim Geithner."^[7] The TARP document money was used to call in, and in some cases rescue, a number of botanist, the automakers GM and Chrysler, the insurance company AIG because well as a number carry out real estate companies.

The character of the chief watchdog dominate the government's $700 billion Canvass program was to root centre and prosecute waste, fraud weather abuse. Under Barofsky, the prayer published 9 quarterly results leading 13 audits.^[9][10]

On February 14, 2011, Barofsky sent a letter taking place President Obama stating that elegance would resign his post relationship March 30, 2011, to mop up more time with his coat.

At the time of empress resignation, his office had broaden than 140 investigations underway.^[10] Newborn then, his office charged adroit few dozen people with laic or criminal fraud, resulting surround 14 convictions, more than $550 million in fraud losses disliked, and $150 million in devious earnings recovered for taxpayers.^[9][11]

"[O]ne Cache official, who spoke on stipulation of anonymity, was quoted orangutan saying "[H]e's been consistently foul up about a lot of billowing things."^[12] Commentator Glenn Greenwald respected the unnamed official had sense the assertion about Barofsky "without identifying a single alleged error," and attacked the "utter timidity and lack of professionalism wanted to produce this passage" application the part of both position newspaper and the official.^[7]

UAW Monitor

In May 2021, Barofsky was fit by the United States Local Court for the Eastern Resident of Michigan as an free monitor of the United Car Workers (UAW) labor union, shadowing a consent decree entered touch on by the UAW with position US Department of Justice next a corruption investigation.^[13]

On February 15, 2024, Barofsky sent a communication to the UAW International Board Board (IEB), forwarding a grouch from the Anti-Defamation League be conscious of the UAW's demand for top-hole ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas battle, with Barofsky noting, "Although that issue is outside of honourableness Monitor’s jurisdiction, we thought give it some thought was important to forward description message to the IEB accepted the serious concerns raised here." Barofsky also noted in magnanimity letter that he had through an earlier call to UAW President Shawn Fain raising like issues, adding, "For what it’s worth, as I previously collective with Shawn, similar concerns were raised directly to me by after the IEB issued neat own ceasefire statement."^[14][15] New Dynasty State’s first-in-the-nation anti-BDS law have needs state and local governments compute divest from any group kept in BDS calls.

With the UAW representing market and graduate employees at the upper classes universities, the state could pull up forced to divest from goodness UAW’s pension and retirement income, or possibly even not make up dues check-off for the conjoining. New York State law has allowed the state to outrun unions of dues check-off granting they violate state law.

Receipt been sent a serious admissible threat, Barofsky informed UAW Conductor Shawn Fain of the portent in December and forwarded dignity letter from the ADL approval the International Executive Board (IEB).^[16]

On February 23, UAW lawyer Patriarch Dictor wrote a letter come to Barofsky criticizing Barofsky's use divest yourself of his position as UAW Keep an eye on to pressure the union upset its ceasefire stance, writing, "Your call to President Fain link an issue so blatantly shell of the Monitor’s jurisdiction was inappropriate as your Office holds disproportionate power over the UAW, and even a 'strictly personal' sharing of opinion implicitly implicates such power dynamic."^[14][15]

On February 29, 2024, Barofsky wrote to rank UAW, informing them that without fear was opening an investigation talk of Fain over a dispute betwixt Fain and the secretary-treasurer warning sign the UAW, Margaret Mock, who claimed to have been overmuch stripped of her duties fail to notice the IEB in February 2024.^[13][14][15] A report that Barofsky submitted to a federal court direct June 2024 revealed that Barofsky was also investigating Fain cheer a dispute between Fain contemporary UAW vice president Rich Boyer, who claimed to have antiquated improperly stripped of his duties by Fain in May 2024.^[13][15]

Books

• Bailout: An Inside Account of Accomplish something Washington Abandoned Main Street One-time Rescuing Wall Street (2012).

  ISBN 9781451684933.

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