Senior Leadership

Edward Y. Kim
Deputy United States Attorney

Edward Y. Kim is the Deputy United States Attorney. Mr. Kim assumed that role on May 24, 2024.

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Translation Kim returned to the Office in February 2024 to assume the role of Chief Counsel to the United States Attorney, a position he held until his appointment as Deputy United States Attorney. Mr. Kim was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office from 2008 to 2017, serving in the Criminal Division. From 2015 to 2016, Mr. Kim was Chief of the General Crimes Unit, and from 2016 to 2017, he was Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. During his tenure, Mr. Kim twice received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. He also received the Assistant Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award and was named a prosecutor of the year by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation. From 2017 to 2024, Mr. Kim was a partner at Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP, a firm which he co-founded, where he represented individuals and entities in white collar criminal and regulatory matters.

Mr. Kim graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1998 and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2004. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Kim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York.

Daniel M. Gitner
Chief, Criminal Division

Daniel M. Gitner is the Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Gitner returned to the Office to assume that role on November 22, 2021.

Mr. Gitner was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office for approximately eight years, from 1997 to 2005, serving in the Criminal Division. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Gitner was Chief of the General Crimes Unit. During his tenure, Mr. Gitner received the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance, and in 2003 the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation named him the Federal Prosecutor of the Year. From 2005 to 2021, Mr. Gitner was a partner at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, where he represented individuals and entities in white collar criminal and regulatory matters. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Gitner graduated cum laude from Cornell University in 1992 and as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia Law School in 1995. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Gitner served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald and then to the Honorable Barbara S. Jones, both of the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York.

Karl Metzner
Associate United States Attorney

Karl Metzner has been the Associate United States Attorney since April 2022. In that role, Mr. Metzner is the Office’s Ethics Advisor, Professional Responsibility Officer for the Criminal Division, and Criminal Discovery Coordinator. Mr. Metzner also supervises the Victim/Witness Unit, the Privilege Review team, and the Grand Jury coordinators, and co-chairs the Office’s Disclosure Committee.

Mr. Metzner joined the Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division in October 1998. As a line assistant in the Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit, he prosecuted the Acting Boss of the Luchese Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra for murder, and led multiple terrorism prosecutions and investigations stemming from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Mr. Metzner received the EOUSA Director’s Award

for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team in 2007, and was honored with the Stimson Medal in 2009. Mr. Metzner served as a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division from 2006 to 2008, Chief of the Narcotics Unit from 2008 to 2012, Chief of the Organized Crime Unit from 2012 to 2014, and Senior Litigation Counsel and Deputy Chief of Appeals from 2014 to 2022.

Mr. Metzner received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Washington University in 1989, and graduated with Highest Honors from Duke University School of Law in 1992. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Hon. James Logan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Jeffrey Oestericher
Chief, Civil Division

Jeffrey Oestericher is the Chief of the Civil Division for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Oestericher has been with the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for 22 years, and has been a Deputy Chief in the Civil Division since March 2003.

Mr. Oestericher began his career as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Civil Division in June 1994. Five years later, he became the Deputy Chief of Appeals in 1999. During his tenure, Mr. Oestericher played an important role in many significant civil cases, including as lead attorney in U.S. v. Wells Fargo et al., a mortgage fraud case that resulted in a $1.2 billion judgment and admissions. He received the Henry L. Stimson Medal from the New York City Bar Association in 2003.

He is a 1987 graduate from the University of Rochester and a 1990 graduate from Yale Law School.