Renee L. Jarusinsky

Renee L. Jarusinsky is a seasoned white collar litigator at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP. She has twenty-five years of experience in white collar, corruption, and complex financial matters, both as a defense attorney and prosecutor. At Ford O'Brien, she assists her clients with legal issues involving white collar criminal defense, government compliance and regulatory defense, internal investigations, sanctions-related advocacy, asset forfeiture, and foreign agent registration. 

Before joining Ford O’Brien Landy LLP, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office for more than 10 years, the latter half of which she served as Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. In this role, she supervised corruption investigations conducted by other staff as well as handling her own caseload. Prior to that, she served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Public Integrity Bureau at the New York State Attorney General's Office where she was awarded the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award for Outstanding Service by the New York State Attorney General for the sweeping investigation she did on private attorneys who unlawfully received state pension benefits. Her cases in the public sector ranged from not-for-profit fraud, government contract fraud, pension fraud, campaign finance schemes, identity theft and bank fraud.

Before going into the public sector, Ms. Jarusinsky was an associate for five years at the white collar powerhouse firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Anello. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Richard Owen in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Jarusinsky completed her undergraduate studies at the Purchase College State University of New York in 1995, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. She earned her doctorate in jurisprudence from the Fordham University School of Law in 2000. A voracious writer, she has had articles published by the White Collar Crime Division of the American Bar Association and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. She is currently admitted to practice law in the state of New York and appears before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.