Denny Chin represents in Madoff Case

By Now you should have heard about the swindler Bernie Madoff who pleaded guilty to destroying the lives of thousands of people with a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

"The feds had to keep their mitts off Madoff's properties because they were part of his $10 million bail package. That all changed last week when Madoff pleaded guilty to engineering a $65 billion Ponzi scheme and Manhattan Federal Judge Denny Chin revoked his bail. Madoff, 70, is now imprisoned at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.He is scheduled to be sentenced June 16, but his lawyer is trying to get him back into house arrest." Article

Denny Chin (Chinese: 陈卓光) is a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Chin was nominated by President Clinton on March 24, 1994, and confirmed in August of that same year. He is the first Asian American appointed as a U.S. District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit.

Career
Chin was born in 1954 in Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1971. He received his Bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1975. In 1978, Chin graduated from Fordham University School of Law, where he was the Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Chin currently teaches first year Legal Writing at Fordham. Following a 1978-1980 clerkship with the Hon. Henry Werker in the Southern District, Chin worked for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1980-1982. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District from 1982-1986. In 1986, Chin left the U.S. Attorney's Office and started a law firm, Campbell, Patrick & Chin, with two colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office. In 1990, he joined the law firm Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., where he specialized in labor and employment law, representing employees and unions. He practiced at Vladeck until his appointment to the bench in 1994.

Known Cases

In Fox v. Franken Chin denied Fox News (who alleged a trademark violation) an injunction against Al Franken's Book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Chin also presided over the criminal prosecution of Larry Stewart, the handwriting expert who was accused of committing perjury during the trial of Martha Stewart (no relation).Larry Stewart was acquitted by a jury.

Chin presided over the criminal trial of Pak Dong-seon in connection with Pak's alleged involvement in the scandal surrounding the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. Pak was convicted by a jury and sentenced by Judge Chin to 5 years in prison.

Most recently, Chin presided over the criminal trial of Oscar Wyatt, the Texas oil billionaire, a long-time Democrat, and rival of George H.W. Bush accused of making kick-backs to the Hussein regime during the UN Oil-For-Food Programe. In the middle of his trial, Wyatt changed his plea to guilty as part of a plea bargain with the government.

He was assigned the Google Book Settlement on January 8, 2009, after the death of the previous supervising judge.

U.S. v. Madoff. Madoff admitted to committing securities fraud via a Ponzi scheme starting in the early 1990s, which involved potentially as much as $65 billion. On March 12, 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal charges relating to the scheme. Following his pleading, Chin revoked Madoff's $10 million dollar bail and ordered him to report immediately to jail at the request of the federal prosecutors, citing that Madoff had both the resources and the incentive to flee before his formal sentencing scheduled to take place in June 2009.

Awards

In 2004, the Asian American Law Students Association (APALSA) at Fordham Law named the Hon. Denny Chin Alumni Award for Excellence in the Legal Profession after Chin. Recipients of the award include:

    * Serene Nakano '82,
    * Chad Sjoquist '98,
    * Judge Danny K. Chun '87, and
    * Betsy Tsai '01 (one of Judge Chin's former clerks).

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