Brooke Cucinella, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan who prosecuted sports gambler William “Billy” Walters, is joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a litigation partner in September.

Brooke Cucinella.
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Cucinella, a federal prosecutor for the past six years, was most recently a senior member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. There, she was responsible for investigating and prosecuting financial crimes such as accounting fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, wire fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud and money laundering.