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Renée L. Jarusinsky

Partner, Ford O'Brien Landy

212-444-4891rjarusinsky@fordobrien.com

275 Madison Avenue
Floor 24
New York, New York 10016

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Renée L. Jarusinsky is an experienced white-collar practitioner, having spent the majority of her more than twenty-year career investigating and litigating complex financial crimes and corruption. Her cases have covered a broad range of activity including not-for-profit and government contract fraud, pension fraud, securities and accounting fraud, campaign finance schemes, identity theft and bank fraud, and more. She brings to her clients and her cases the perspective she gained from having been both a defense attorney and a prosecutor.

Select Engagements:

• Representing an individual in connection with an asset seizure by the U.S. government.
• Representing a Washington D.C. think tank in connection with allegations of violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
• Representing an individual in connection with allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's office that he engaged in "pump and dump" schemes of thinly-traded microcap stocks.
• Representing an individual in connection with insider trading allegations that he was a tipper and a tippee by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
• Advising a not-for-profit organization relating to issues stemming from the discovery of employee misconduct.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2026 White Collar, Investigations
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2025 White Collar, Investigations

Jarusinsky recently founded The New Castelfranco Society, a virtual community of descendants of her grandmother's hometown in Italy, and she is conversational in Italian. She also serves on the Board of Directors of USA Friends of GCEC, Inc., a not-for-profit entity that provides financial support to a school in Kenya that she has visited several times.