Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio today appointed Zach Carter, a former US Attorney, as New York City’s next Corporation Counsel. As the top legal counsel to the City of New York and head of one of the nation’s largest public law firms, Carter will be charged with helping execute legal and legislative aspects of the incoming administration’s progressive agenda—from expanding the paid sick leave law, to establishing new mandates for affordable housing and protecting community healthcare.

Carter is an accomplished attorney who has spent his career in the private and public sectors ensuring that all people are treated equally under the law. As United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York for six years, Carter led an office that shut down dangerous gangs of inner-city crack dealers, exposed securities fraud boiler rooms allied with organized crime, and prosecuted international criminal organizations engaged in human trafficking and modern day slavery. Carter has rightly earned a reputation as a dogged defender of New Yorkers’ civil rights, and led the prosecution in the Abner Louima case and the federal prosecution of those responsible for the death of Yankel Rosenbaum during the Crown Heights riots.

“Zach Carter has been a fighter and a conscience for this city throughout his career. He’s shown his character, his toughness and his resolve prosecuting dangerous criminals and protecting those who have been wronged. We are honored to have him represent this city and our administration,” said Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio.

“This administration is going to do powerful things to lift up vulnerable New Yorkers and put our city on a progressive path. I’ll use all my experience to help our new mayor achieve what he was elected to do, and to make sure we uphold and protect the rights of New Yorkers in everything we do,” said incoming Corporation Counsel Zach Carter.

(YWN Newsroom – NYC)