Glen G. McGorty

Glen is an experienced trial lawyer who served 15 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C.

He represents corporate entities and individuals in federal and state criminal and regulatory matters, and in investigations conducted by grand juries, congressional committees, independent and special counsel, and domestic and international law enforcement and regulatory agencies including the DOJ, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), and various State Attorneys General. Glen has led internal investigations for many leading international companies and Fortune 100 multinationals across industries including, financial services, defense contracting, technology, communications, energy, and engineering.

Glen is an experienced independent compliance monitor. Since 2014, Glen has served as a Court-appointed federal monitor as the Independent Monitor of the New York City District Council of Carpenters and related Taft-Hartley benefit funds. Since 2021, he has served as part of the Court-appointed federal monitor team for the United Autoworkers of America, overseeing the union’s historic union-wide referendum election and their first ever union-wide national mail-in ballot officer election.

Glen serves as co-chair of the firm’s Litigation and Trial Department, managing partner of the firm’s New York office, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and a member of the White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Group and the Financial Services Practice.

Government Experience

Glen joined Crowell & Moring after almost 15 years at the DOJ. During his career with the government, Glen prosecuted and supervised a wide range of significant, high-profile cases, handling white collar matters such as securities fraud, public corruption, wire and mail fraud, money laundering, tax violations, insider trading, accounting fraud and options backdating cases, and other serious criminal cases such as RICO enterprises, international narcotics trafficking, and violent crimes including kidnapping and murder.

While serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the SDNY, Glen was lead counsel in 15 federal jury trials, and he briefed and argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He led numerous complex criminal investigations and prosecutions in virtually every sector of the office, including the SDNY's Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, and International Narcotics Trafficking Unit. During his time in the SDNY, Glen supervised the Narcotics Unit, Violent Crimes Unit, General Crimes Unit, and the Criminal Division itself, and served as Senior Trial Counsel in the SDNY's Public Corruption Unit.  Glen was recognized by his colleagues during his time in Government service, including his receipt of the DOJ's Attorney General Award for Distinguished Service and the True American Hero Award from the Federal Drug Agents Foundation.

Before coming to the SDNY, Glen joined the DOJ through the Attorney General's Honors Program, and served more than three years as a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section of DOJ's Criminal Division in Washington, D.C., and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA).