Richard T. Preiss is a partner in the firm’s interdisciplinary corporate-support group which includes Regulatory Compliance/Governmental Relations, Internal Investigations, and White Collar Criminal Defense. Prior to joining Peckar & Abramson, he was a former Assistant District Attorney for the New York County District Attorney’s Office for almost 31 years.

Mr. Preiss was a highly successful prosecutor experienced in multiple facets of economic crime and business fraud. While an Assistant District Attorney, he investigated and prosecuted numerous white collar crimes including domestic and international bank fraud, violations of the federal sanctions regime involving Iran, Sudan, Cuba and other sanctioned countries and the corresponding falsification of New York bank records, securities fraud including broker-dealer fraud and market manipulation, money laundering, offshore investment trust fraud, derivatives trading fraud, and tax fraud.

Mr. Preiss is a recipient of the United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General’s National Asset Forfeiture Award for Outstanding Investigation, and the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.

Mr. Preiss has also been a frequent guest speaker at various important symposia, conferences, and seminars including: the Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (since 1991); a seminar for in-house compliance officers from major U.K. financial institutions in London where he spoke on “The Substantive Provisions and Jurisdictional Reach of the New York State Money Laundering Law;” the East-West Management Institute Workshop in Slovenia for Eastern European judges and prosecutors on the topic “Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Money Laundering Cases;” the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools at San Antonio, Texas; the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and the Temple University School of Law on “Effects of Foreign Bank Secrecy Laws on Investigations of Money Laundering and Other International Economic Crimes;” and the Temple University School of Law Symposium, on “Policy Lessons To Be Learned from the BCCI Affair.” He has also published articles in connection with these themes.

Mr. Preiss graduated from La Salle University (B.A., 1976) and Temple University School of Law, cum laude (J.D. 1976). He is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the courts of the State of New York.