SDNY Announces Criminal Enforcement Priorities For 2024, Whistleblower Pilot Program

Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced an expansion of his office's priorities for 2024, adding fights against the fentanyl epidemic and public corruption to its previously stated “co-equal” priorities of protecting against violent crime, rooting out corruption in financial markets, and vigorously enforcing civil rights. 

• Fighting Fentanyl: Williams pledged to focus his office on attacking the fentanyl epidemic by using a two-pronged approach: stemming the flow of the drug into the district by charging criminal networks of traffickers and producers abroad, and concurrently prosecuting offenders at home, calling the approach “from root to branch.”