David Bitkower

David Bitkower is the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, and assists the Assistant Attorney General in the supervision of the Division’s more than 600 federal prosecutors who conduct investigations and prosecutions involving fraud, public corruption, cybercrime, intellectual property, organized and transnational crime, money laundering, child exploitation, and other matters. Prior to his appointment as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Bitkower served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and supervised the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Organized Crime and Gang Section, and Human Rights and Special Prosecutions section. Before joining the Criminal Division, Mr. Bitkower served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, most recently as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section. In that role, he oversaw counterterrorism, counterespionage, international organized crime and cybercrime prosecutions, among others. Mr. Bitkower has also personally prosecuted some of the country’s most significant and high-profile terrorism cases, including serving as the lead prosecutor in the cases involving the 2009 Al-Qaeda plot to attack the New York City subway system. Mr. Bitkower was also previously detailed to work at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and on the President’s Guantanamo Bay Review Task Force. Before joining the Department, Mr. Bitkower was a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and to U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand of the Southern District of New York. Mr. Bitkower is a graduate of Yale University and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School.