Geoffrey Graber

Geoffrey Graber is a Partner at Cohen Milstein and a member of the firm’s Consumer Protection practice, where he specializes in representing consumers in complex class action litigation involving issues of false advertising, fraud, data privacy theft, and other forms of unfair business practices at the hands of banks, insurance, health care companies, and other consumer providers.

Mr. Graber also represents whistleblowers in qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act and whistleblower programs under the U.S. Securities Exchange (SEC), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Often these lawsuits involve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act allegations.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein in 2015, Mr. Graber had a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as Deputy Associate Attorney General and Director of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Working Group at the DOJ, where he oversaw the DOJ’s nationwide investigation into the packaging and sale of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), leading up to the financial crisis. He supervised more than 100 DOJ prosecutors, lawyers, investigators, and analysts and worked closely with senior officials from the SEC, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Inspector General’s Office for the Federal Finance Agency, and more than 10 state attorneys general offices.