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Jason Swergold

Jason Swergold

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Yankwitt LLP

Yankwitt LLP

United States • New York Elite

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White-collar crime

Jason Swergold at Yankwitt LLP is a white‑collar litigator who handles fraud, corruption, and regulatory enforcement matters. He is a former federal prosecutor and represents executives, professionals, and corporations in investigations and disputes. He also works on matters that involve sensitive or high‑stakes issues.
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Work Department
Criminal Defense & Investigations; Commercial Litigation
Position

Partner, Co-Chair of Yankwitt LLP's Criminal Defense & Investigations Practice

Career

Jason Swergold is an accomplished former federal prosecutor and trial attorney who represents clients in criminal and regulatory defense matters, government investigations, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. A trial-tested litigator with nearly a decade of government experience working with federal, state, and local law enforcement, Jason applies his aggressive and sophisticated trial skills to help clients solve a range of complex and sensitive legal problems. He co-leads the firm’s Criminal Defense & Investigations Practice and serves on the Last Minute Trial Team.

Prior to joining Yankwitt LLP, Jason served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) for the Southern District of New York for more than eight years. As an AUSA, he tried 12 federal criminal cases and argued 10 appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Jason also served as Co-Chief of the Narcotics Unit, Acting Deputy Chief of the Violent and Organized Crimes Unit, and most recently, Deputy Chief of the White Plains Division, where he supervised all federal criminal prosecutions in Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, and Sullivan counties.

In these roles, Jason investigated, prosecuted and/or supervised a wide variety of complex cases involving racketeering, homicide, organized crime, labor union corruption, and gang-related and drug-related violence, international and domestic narcotics trafficking, sex trafficking, fraud, and firearms offenses.

Jason began his legal career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and then as an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. While at Shearman and Sterling, he was part of the trial and appellate team that secured the reversal of a hedge fund manager’s insider trading conviction and dismissal of the indictment, as well as the vacatur of a state inmate’s death sentence.

Memberships
  • Westchester County Bar Association, Criminal Section, Vice Chair
Education
  • Boston College Law School, J.D., cum laude
    • B.C. International & Comparative Law Journal, Executive Notes Editor
  • Boston College, B.A.

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Work highlights

Represented a longtime Westchester physician in his 70s in a federal opioid case, securing a significantly reduced sentence of one year and one day with no supervised release.
Represented an individual who was accused of importing large quantities of amphetamine from the dark web.
Represented Brian Murray, a contractor who owed the IRS $1.8 million in unpaid taxes, in a federal case in the Southern District of New York.