Aaron Mendelsohn

Deputy General Counsel, NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS)

Aaron is a lifelong public servant with more than 25 years of legal, compliance, investigations, and policy experience, including leading oversight investigations of city agencies at the New York City Council, instituting and managing compliance programs and conducting fraud risk assessments at Accenture and EY, regulating securities industry violations at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, prosecuting economic and other crimes at the U.S. Department of Justice, and investigating financial frauds at two global law firms. In these roles, Aaron has supervised, litigated, and resolved complex cases while working with federal, state, and local agencies and law enforcement agents.

Aaron has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University since 2017, teaching Internal Investigations and International Financial Crime as part of Fordham Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Throughout his career, Aaron has been a frequent speaker on corporate compliance and ethics, fraud investigations, and internal audit issues, and he has received numerous awards, including from FINRA, DOJ, the U.S. Secret Service, the Internal Revenue Service, and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. Aaron received his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and his B.A. from Middlebury College.

Aaron is an accomplished runner, including winning the Hamptons Marathon and serving as an official pacer for multiple New York City Marathons. Aaron is also a singer and has been the Cantor at Middlebury College’s High Holiday services for over three decades.

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