Pablo Quiñones

Pablo Quiñones

Legal Chief Pablo Quiñones, who also serves as an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, is the founding leader of the Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions.

Quiñones previously served as a prosecutor for more than 10 years, including as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and as a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the U.S. Department of Justice.  At the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, Quiñones served on the office’s prestigious Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, handling high-profile insider trading, market manipulation, accounting fraud, and investment fraud cases, including the insider trading prosecution of a portfolio manager at a $7 billion hedge fund and the investment fraud prosecution and jury trial of a Wall Street executive profiled in an American Greed episode. As a Deputy Chief at the U.S. Department of Justice, Quiñones served as chief of a specialized unit that developed and implemented enforcement strategies and policies for the prosecution of financial crimes by the largest group of criminal fraud prosecutors in the nation.  Some of his accomplishments included developing federal corporate enforcement policies; promoting the evaluation of corporate compliance programs and monitors; approving criminal charges for two national health care fraud takedowns; and overseeing a corporate monitorship arising from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Quiñones also previously served as Executive Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement and as an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, where he co-taught a course about corporate crime and financial misdealing. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School, where he taught a course on cyber enforcement, regulation, and policy.

In addition, Quiñones has substantial experience in private practice representing corporations and individuals involved in complex fraud government investigations and prosecutions as a former partner of a global law firm and principal of his own law firm.

Quiñones obtained his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.