Russell Capone

Russell Capone is a partner at Cooley LLP and a former federal prosecutor with significant experience handling complex criminal cases, particularly those involving corruption, financial fraud, and other white-collar crimes. He served for over ten years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, most recently as chief counsel to the U.S. Attorney. In that role, Russell helped oversee the office's most significant and sensitive investigations and prosecutions involving white-collar and cybercrime, securities fraud, public corruption, terrorism, gang violence, organized crime, sex trafficking, and international narcotics trafficking. He also supervised matters arising in the office's civil division, including those involving civil rights violations and violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.