Joshua Goldberg is a member of the firm's White Collar Defense and Investigations group.  Mr. Goldberg's practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, securities fraud and internal investigations.  Prior to joining Patterson Belknap, Mr. Goldberg worked for eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York where he investigated and prosecuted complex white collar cases involving securities fraud, accounting fraud, market manipulation, investment adviser fraud, insider trading and commercial bribery.  He also prosecuted matters involving wire and mail fraud, money laundering, racketeering, murder, firearms and narcotics trafficking.  In 2002, Mr. Goldberg received the Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance.

Mr. Goldberg has extensive trial and appellate experience, having tried 15 criminal cases to verdict and handled numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  He also has experience working closely with the SEC and other regulatory agencies. He has served as a faculty member in connection with the Lawline.com presentation of "White Collar Crimes: The Notable Cases of 2009".

After graduation from law school, Mr. Goldberg served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Barbara S. Jones, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Mr. Goldberg then worked as an associate at Patterson Belknap for three years before joining the United States Attorney's Office.

Significant Prosecutions
United States v. James J Treacy: Investigated and prosecuted former President and COO of Monster Worldwide, Inc. for his role in a multi-year scheme to backdate numerous stock option grants at Monster, thereby causing Monster to misstate its financial results by more than $330 million. Treacy was convicted in May 2009 following a four-week jury trial.

United States v. Ross Mandell, et al.:  Investigated and prosecuted several senior officials of Sky Capital, a New York-based brokerage-dealer firm, for investment advisor fraud, market manipulation, and misappropriation of assets.  The charges arose from a long-term scheme to defraud investors of approximately $140 million.

United States v. Mitchel Guttenberg, et al.: Prosecuted defendants for insider trading based on their use of nonpublic information regarding upcoming stock upgrades and downgrades at UBS, culminating in the defendants pleading guilty to securities fraud.

United States v. Carole Argo: Investigated and prosecuted former CFO and COO of SafeNet, Inc., a publicly-traded information resource corporation, for her role in a scheme to backdate millions of dollars' worth of employee stock option grants, culminating in her pleading guilty to securities fraud.

United States v. John Black, et al.: Prosecuted defendants arrested as part of what was then described as the largest securities fraud investigation in history for their role in a scheme to defraud several New York-based union pension funds through kickbacks to organized crime figures and a corrupt investment advisor, culminating in guilty pleas by two defendants and convictions after jury trial of two other defendants.