Friday, February 13, 2009

Biography

Robert Khuzami served as an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York from 1990 to 2002. In that office, from 1998 to 2002, he was deputy chief and chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Khuzami served in the office's terrorism unit, where he was one of three prosecutors in United States v. Omar Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman, et al., a case culminating in a ten-month trial in which the "Blind Sheik," Omar Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman, El-Sayyid Nosair, and nine codefendants were convicted of operating an international terrorist organization responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the planned bombings of various New York City landmarks, including the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the United Nations headquarters. Mr. Khuzami has been awarded the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service (1996), the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation's Federal Prosecutor Award (1997), and the Henry L. Stimson Award for Outstanding Public Service (2001).

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