Matt Podolsky

Matthew Podolsky is the Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. In his role as Chief, he has supervised a wide variety of complex individual and corporate investigations and prosecutions, including cases involving insider trading, market manipulation, and investor and accounting fraud. Mr. Podolsky began his career as an Assistant United States Attorney in June 2015. As an Assistance United States Attorney, Mr. Podolsky investigated and tried a number of significant securities fraud cases, including the cases that resulted in the conviction of Bill Hwang, the founder and head of Archegos Capital, for fraud and market manipulation, and in the conviction of Trevor Milton, the founder and former Executive Chairman of Nikola Motor Company, for defrauding investors.

Mr. Podolsky graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2005 and as a James Kent Scholar from Columbia Law School in 2009. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Podolsky worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.