Joon H Kim

Joon H. Kim is the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was promoted to Deputy U.S. Attorney in July 2015, after serving as the Chief of the Criminal Division since July 2014. From April 2013 to July 2014, Mr. Kim was the Chief Counsel to the U.S. Attorney. Mr. Kim first joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in 2000, where, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes, including racketeering, murder, money laundering, securities fraud, firearms and narcotics offenses, tax evasion, and terrorism. He spent his last four years in the Office in the Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit, prosecuting violent organized crime syndicates, including Asian gangs and the Mafia. During his tenure, Mr. Kim convicted a number of high-ranking organized crime figures, including Peter Gotti, then Boss of the Gambino Family, for conspiring to kill Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. From 2006 to 2013, Mr. Kim worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he was a partner in the litigation and enforcement group, focusing on white-collar criminal defense and regulatory enforcement, as well as commercial civil litigation and international arbitration. Mr. Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1993 and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York.