Neil barofsky biography

Before that, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2000 to 2008.
Neil M. Barofsky, a partner in the Litigation Department of national law firm Jenner & Block LLP, focuses his practice on white collar investigations, complex commercial litigation, monitorships and examinerships.
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Neil Barofsky

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Neil Barofsky is currently a Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the Special Inspector General in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. This is his first book.

Series

Books:

Bailout, August 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

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Neil Barofsky

Neil M. Barofsky, currently a partner at Jenner & Block, was appointed by then-President George W. Bush in 2008 to oversee the government's spending of the TARP bailout money.^[1]

In 2011, he stepped down from that post, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. After moving to Washington D.C. in late 2008, he had gotten married and became a father. His deputy, Christy Romero, took over the position on March 30, 2011.^[2]

Barofsky opened an investigation in March 2009 into whether AIG paid more government bailout money than necessary to big banks that held claims against the collapsing insurance company.^[3]

In June 2014, the New York Times reported that New York state’s financial regulator was close to picking Barofsky as the corporate monitor for Credit Suisse, after the bank pleaded guilty to helping American clients evade taxes.^[4]

Barofsky was initially appointed as the corporate monitor for Credit Suisse and given the task of producing a public report on his findings, but Credit Suisse removed him as ombu

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Neil Barofsky

American lawyer (born 1970)

Neil M. Barofsky (born 1970), a partner in the Litigation Department of national law firm Jenner & Block LLP, focuses his practice on white collar investigations, complex commercial litigation, monitorships and examinerships.

Immediately before joining Jenner & Block, Mr. Barofsky was Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, an adjunct professor at the law school, and affiliated with the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program on Law and Business.^[1] He was the Treasury Department's Special Inspector General (SIGTARP) overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program, from December 15, 2008, until his resignation on March 30, 2011. Before that, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2000 to 2008.

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

Education

Barofsky went to Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, Florida,^[2] and completed his undergraduate