Joshua L. Haber

Partner

(646) 475-0157

PRACTICE AREAS
GOVERNMENT SERVICE
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Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey (2017-2025)

Chief, Criminal Division (2025)

Deputy Chief, Criminal Division (2024-2025)

Chief, Economic Crimes Unit (2022-2024)

Assistant U.S. Attorney, Health Care Fraud Unit (2018-2022)

Assistant U.S. Attorney, General Crimes Unit (2017-2018)

Assistant District Attorney, Appeals Division, New York County District Attorney’s Office (2012-2017)

 

CLERKSHIPS
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Law Clerk, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, Supreme Court of New Jersey (2010-2011)

Law Clerk, Justice Asher Grunis, Supreme Court of Israel (2010)

RECOGNITION
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Federal Law Enforcement Foundation (FLEF) Prosecutor of the Year

EDUCATION
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J.D., Duke University School of Law (2009)

LLM, International Comparative Law, Duke University School of Law (2009)

Master II, Global Business Law, Science Po Paris & Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (2009)

B.A., Johns Hopkins University (2003)

ADMISSIONS
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New Jersey; New York

U.S. District Courts for District of New Jersey, Southern District of New York, and Eastern District of New York

Joshua is an accomplished litigator and appellate advocate. Leveraging over a decade of experience as a government attorney, he represents individuals and corporations in high-stakes criminal and civil matters.

Before joining AEL, Joshua served as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, the top position in the Criminal Division, where he supervised approximately 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys across three offices. He oversaw the investigation, prosecution, and trial of all manner of cases, including those involving health care fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, theft of trade secrets, racketeering, tax fraud, and cybercrime. Joshua also previously served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit, and as an AUSA in the Health Care Fraud Unit.

While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Joshua was recognized three years in a row by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation as Prosecutor of the Year for his work on cases involving national security and health care fraud.

Prior to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Joshua served for over four years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan DA’s Office, focusing on criminal appeals. He briefed and argued dozens of cases in New York appellate courts, including before the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court.

Joshua has provided cybercrime training for SEC attorneys in New York and Washington and has spoken on several panels addressing DOJ’s white collar enforcement policies and priorities, parallel proceedings, and corporate compliance. He has taught a class on health care fraud at the Seton Hall Law School Health Care Compliance Program. He was also a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he co-taught a seminar on federal prosecutions.

Earlier in his career, Joshua served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and as a foreign law clerk for the Honorable Asher Grunis, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. He then spent one year as a litigation associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Manhattan.

Joshua resides on the Upper West Side and serves on the Board of Directors of the Marlene Myerson JCC Manhattan.

Case Highlights as an Assistant U.S. Attorney

As an AUSA, Joshua directly handled and supervised the following representative matters:

  • Prosecuted the largest-ever Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) settlement with a pharmaceutical company.
  • Supervised the prosecution of TD Bank for pervasive failures to prevent money laundering, resulting in over $1.8 billion in criminal penalties and the first ever guilty plea by a major bank for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
  • Prosecuted multiple individuals, including the owners and director of a specialty pharmacy, for a multi-million dollar scheme to commit health care fraud, tax fraud, and violations of the federal Antikickback Statute (AKS).
  • Prosecuted a three-week jury trial involving a multi-million dollar credit card and gift card fraud scheme, resulting in a guilty verdict.
  • Charged a U.S.-based investment banker for a multi-million dollar international securities fraud and insider trading scheme that targeted mergers and acquisitions in the health care and biopharmaceutical industries.
  • Prosecuted multiple healthcare providers, including two doctors, for overlapping multi-million dollar schemes to violate the federal Antikickback Statute (AKS) through genetic testing.
  • Prosecuted two individuals, including the former Chief Financial Officer of a biopharmaceutical company, for insider trading.
  • Supervised a seven-week jury trial involving a $90 million Ponzi scheme resulting in guilty verdicts for securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
  • Supervised the prosecution of the leader of a real estate investment firm for a committing a $650 million Ponzi scheme and evading taxes.
  • Prosecuted a jury trial involving online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct, resulting in a guilty verdict.
  • Prosecuted multiple individuals, including the owner and operations manager of a specialty pharmacy, for paying bribes and kickbacks to healthcare providers, in violation of the federal Antikickback Statute (AKS).