Jeffrey Weintraub

phone: 646-733-5759
email: jweintraub@milberg.com
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Jeff  is an investigator and an attorney who came to Milberg after 15 years as a litigator and compliance specialist in the areas of securities regulation, civil litigation under the securities laws, and accounting and procurement fraud. Jeff is a native New Yorker, who, as an evening student, received his J.D. in 1990 from New York Law School and was associated with several top firms in New York, including Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky & Frischling, Hunton & Williams and Reid & Priest (later Thelen Reid & Priest). As an attorney, Jeff represented, among other clients, an accounting firm in a fraud investigation of a construction manager and its subcontractors, an owner’s representative in a complex arbitration seeking removal of the managing agent of seven landmark commercial buildings in New York City based on allegations of procurement fraud and a defense company alleging fraud and breach of warranties in connection with its purchase of assets. Jeff also represented both brokers and customers in securities arbitrations and counseled broker-dealers throughout the U.S., including in St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Miami and the New York area, in SEC enforcement and Wells proceedings and on securities law compliance issues.

Jeff has been with Milberg since 2007 and has turned his focus to investigations. At Milberg, Jeff has uncovered evidence of accounting fraud in the double-counting of revenue by Xerox Corporation, inflated sales numbers by a major department store chain, and of fraud in connection with the booking of subprime and other mortgages by prominent members of the home building industry. With experience on both sides of a litigation, Jeff knows that both claims and defenses depend on an unshakable evidentiary foundation.

In a complex arbitration involving allegations of procurement fraud by the managing agent of several New York City landmark buildings in and around the garment district, Jeff developed the testimony of several witnesses who were key to the successful resolution of the case. One of the witnesses stated after the trial that the experience was well worth it, if only to see the look on the faces of former bosses who, she said, treated her like furniture.

In a case involving one of the leading defense companies in the U.S. and its purchase from a competitor of satellite guidance and navigation products and systems, Jeff worked with company personnel to assemble documents and reconstruct the acquisition from the company’s offices and facilities throughout the world. By tracing a defective gyroscope in a space satellite back to a specific series of undisclosed tests, Jeff was able to show how the selling company hid the defect from prospective purchasers, largely using affidavits from several engineers who conducted the tests and monitored the device’s performance in the field and who were surprised at how their work was misused.

In a case at Milberg that had proven difficult for lack of corroborating testimony on issues of employment discrimination and harassment, Jeff located and developed the testimony of a former supervisor of the plaintiff that not only bolstered the facts of the case but also uncovered additional allegations of wrongdoing. The case quickly settled, and the plaintiff said that she was most gratified by the fact that someone finally believed her.

In another case at Milberg involving allegations of mortgage fraud, Jeff discovered an office of underwriting personnel at the mortgage arm of a major home builder who, during the height of the real estate bubble, found themselves forced to aid and abet, under pain of losing their jobs, what they believed to be the unlawful approval of mortgages to manifestly unqualified purchasers. Their sense of relief and pent-up frustration was evident in the stories witnesses from that office told. How, for example, prospective borrowers were “pre-qualified with mirrors,” that is, checked to see if they were breathing before being cleared for a subprime mortgage. The U.S. and global economies are still recovering from these inappropriate industry-wide lending practices.

If you are a potential whistleblower or aggrieved consumer or investor, Jeff would be happy to discuss your situation with you.

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