Nicholas Roos
Co-Chief, Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, U.S. Attorney's Office, SDNY
Nicolas Roos is an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Roos joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2016, and has been a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and the Public Corruption Unit. Mr. Roos was one of the lead prosecutors in United States v. Samuel Bankman-Fried and in the other criminal cases relating to the collapse of FTX. He previously also worked on criminal prosecutions relating to insider trading in cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, including United States v. Nathaniel Chastain and United States v. Ishan Wahi. Mr. Roos is a graduate of the University of Vermont, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School.