Breon Peace
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Breon Peace (LinkedIn) was appointed by President Joseph Biden, was the 48th United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2021 to 2025. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Peace led an office responsible for all federal criminal and civil cases in a district comprised of more than 8 million people in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, and in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island.
In October 2023, Mr. Peace was appointed to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) which advises the Attorney General on matters of policy, procedure, and management impacting the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys. Mr. Peace also served as the Chairperson of the White Collar Fraud subcommittee for the AGAC, playing a key role in making recommendations to the AGAC to facilitate the prevention, investigation and prosecution of various financially motivated, non-violent crimes including mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, health care fraud, tax fraud, securities and commodities fraud, and identity theft.
Mr. Peace also sat on the AGAC subcommittee for Civil Rights focusing on civil rights matters of importance to the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country as well as the Violent Crime and Terrorism and National Security subcommittees. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Peace was a partner in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and was a member of the firm’s White-Collar Defense & Investigations and Litigation Groups.