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 Before becoming a lawyer, AUSA Samuel P. Nitze worked as an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, among other publications. Mr. Nitze received his bachelors degree with honors from Duke University and his law degree magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review. After law school, Mr. Nitze worked as an Associate at Debevoise and Plimpton and clerked for the Honorable Reena Raggi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Nitze joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”) in 2012, where he first served in the General Crimes section. He is currently assigned to the National Security and Cybercrime section and has participated in a wide range of investigations and prosecutions including cases involving narcotics offenses, gang violence, organized crime, child pornography, terrorism, and corruption. Mr. Nitze has tried to verdict a number of cases including United States v. Ronald Herron, a five week racketeering and murder trial in which Herron, also known as “Ra Diggs,” was convicted of, among other things, three homicides, and was sentenced to twelve life sentences, plus hundred and five years in prison. Among other significant cases, in United States v. Rex Maralit, et al., Mr. Nitze prosecuted and secured the guilty pleas of two members of law enforcement for their roles in a scheme to smuggle high-­‐powered assault rifles, sniper rifles, and other weapons from the United States to the Philippines. Mr. Nitze also served as lead counsel in United States v. Tsirlina where he secured the conviction at trial of an immigration lawyer who created sham companies and filed hundreds of fraudulent applications in connection with a sprawling visa fraud scheme. Mr. Nitze is currently serving as lead counsel in United States v. Tairod Pugh in which a former member of the U.S. Air Force is charged with attempting to join the designated foreign terrorist organization known as ISIS or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Finally, Mr. Nitze is a member of the team currently investigating and prosecuting FIFA officials and sports marketing executives, in U.S. v. Jeffrey Webb, et al., for their involvement in racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and other offenses in connection with a decades-­‐long scheme to corrupt international soccer. AUSA Rena T. Paul received her bachelor’s degree from Emory University and her law degree from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Paul began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in September 2006. As a state prosecutor, Ms. Paul spent two years in the Appeals Bureau handing a variety of criminal appeals before moving to the Trial Division where she prosecuted a wide-­‐variety of cases, including violent street crimes, homicides and sexual assaults. After trying more than fifteen cases to verdict, AUSA Paul joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”) in 2013. As an AUSA, Ms. Paul first served in the General Crimes Section, where she prosecuted a broad array of violations of federal law, including child pornography, immigration and narcotics crimes. Since she joined EDNY, Paul has tried five cases to verdict. Ms. Paul served on the trial team in United States v. Ronald Herron, a five week racketeering and murder trial in which Herron, also known as “Ra Diggs,” was convicted of, among other things, three homicides, and sentenced to twelve life sentences, plus hundred and five years in prison. Most recently, Ms. Paul served on the trial team in United States v. Damion Hardy and Aaron Granton, a five week racketeering and murder trial in which Hardy, also known as “World,” and Hardy’s hitman Granton, also known as “Ebay,” were convicted for their involvement in seven murders; both were sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison. Ms. Paul is currently assigned to the Organized Crime and Gangs section, where she is involved in a number of ongoing investigations into gang-­‐related violence involving various sets of the Crips and Bloods street gangs. AUSA Shreve Ariail received his bachelor’s Degree from Davidson College in and his law degree from the University of Virginia in 2002. After graduation, Mr. Ariail worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and clerked for the Honorable Claude M. Hilton in the Eastern District of Virginia. Mr. Ariail joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”) in 2007. He has served in the General Crimes, Narcotics, Violent Crimes & Terrorism and National Security & Cybercrime Sections, and has supervised and/or led the prosecution of a wide-­‐range of cases involving public corruption, fraud, gang and narcotics-­‐related violence, terrorism, and other issues. In 2009, AUSA Ariail was selected by the EDNY to serve as a representative of the Department of Justice on the multi-­‐agency Guantanamo Review Taskforce established to implement President Obama=s executive order to conduct a review of the individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. That same year, Mr. Ariail served as lead counsel in United States v. Betim Kaziu, where he and his colleagues secured the conviction of two Brooklyn men who traveled overseas for the purposes of killing U.S. soldiers and joining the foreign terrorist organizations al-­‐Qaeda and al-­‐Shabaab. Kaziu was convicted after a two-­‐week trial and was sentenced to twenty-­‐seven years in prison. Mr. Ariail is currently the lead prosecutor in United States v. Ibrahim Harun, a case in which the defendant, an alleged al-­‐Qaeda operative, is charged with plotting to kill U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan and with conspiring to bomb U.S. diplomatic facilities in Nigeria. Mr. Ariail also secured convictions in a series of cases arising out of extraterritorial investigations involving individuals associated with al-­‐Qaeda, al-­‐
Shabaab, and al-­‐Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Recently, as the lead prosecutor in U.S. v. Ali Yasin Ahmed, et al., Mr. Ariail and his colleagues secured guilty pleas for three members of al-­‐Shabaab who were charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Mr. Ariail has also prosecuted a number of gang cases, involving organizations such as the Bloods and MS-­‐13. Since 2008, AUSA Ariail spearheaded EDNY’s multi-­‐agency effort to combat Bloods-­‐related violence on Staten Island; this effort resulted in the charging of a number of multi-­‐defendant cases and the conviction of over forty defendants for, among other crimes, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, murder conspiracy and murder. Mr. Ariail also served as the lead prosecutor in United States v. Ronald Herron, a five week racketeering and murder trial in which Herron, also known as “Ra Diggs,” was convicted of, among other things, three homicides, and was sentenced to twelve life sentences, plus hundred and five years in prison. Mr. Ariail currently serves as a Deputy Chief in the General Crimes section where he supervises a number of AUSAs prosecuting cases involving narcotics trafficking, robberies, firearms offenses, export violations, child pornography, as well as wire, mail, and tax fraud.