David S. Cohen (attorney)
| David S. Cohen | |
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| 5th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
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In office February 9, 2015 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Avril Haines |
| Succeeded by | Gina Haspel |
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| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University, B.A. (1985) Yale Law School, J.D. (1989) |
| Religion | Jewish |
David S. Cohen (born 1963) is an American attorney who formerly served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Originally from Boston, Cohen previously worked in the U.S. Treasury Department and as an attorney in private practice.
Cohen is the son of a Boston physician. In high school he became friends with the son of Alan Dershowitz; the elder Dershowitz later recommended Cohen for his first job with Nathan Lewin. He graduated from Cornell University in 1985 and went on to receive a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Cohen served as a law clerk for federal judge Norman P. Ramsey for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
In 1999, Cohen began his first stint at the U.S. Treasury Department, serving in the General Counsel’s office as an aide to General Counsel Neal S. Wolin and then as Acting Deputy General Counsel. He worked there until July 2001, providing legal and policy advice to senior officials on all Treasury issues. According to the Treasury Department, he helped to craft legislation that would later form the basis of Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act, which updated the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act to give the government new tools to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
When he left the government, Cohen joined the Washington law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, now known as WilmerHale. He practiced there for seven years, becoming partner in 2004. His practice areas included complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance. He was part of the team of lawyers representing a special committee of the Enron board that conducted the internal investigation into accounting fraud at Enron in 2001-02.
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