Robert T. Polemeni

Robert Polemeni, a federal prosecutor for nearly 14 years with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, brings his significant experience investigating and prosecuting complex fraud schemes to assist clients in navigating through financial disputes, including the division of complex financial and business assets.

Mr. Polemeni is an accomplished trial attorney having led or served as a second seat in nearly 20 criminal jury trials. As a prosecutor, Mr. Polemeni, working closely with the FBI and IRS-Criminal Investigations, led the successful investigation and prosecution of several sophisticated fraud and corruption schemes, including those involving wire and bank fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and other violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, embezzlement, bribe and kickback payments to government and elected officials, international investment fraud, violations of federal campaign finance laws, RICO, and obstruction of justice and witness tampering. Mr. Polemeni also served as a supervisor for 7 years in the Public Integrity and International Narcotics and Money Laundering sections. Immediately prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Mr. Polemeni clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He started his legal career as a business and securities litigation associate in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Before law school, Mr. Polemeni worked as an analyst for a management consulting firm based in New York.

Mr. Polemeni graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law and received his undergraduate degree in policy analysis from Cornell University.