Deirdre M. Daly, U.S. attorney for Connecticut, has announced new supervisory appointments for five assistant U.S. attorneys: Tracy Lee Dayton, David E. Novick, Sarah P. Karwan, Liam Brennan and Jacabed Rodriguez-Coss.
Dayton has been appointed executive assistant U.S. attorney. She joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2007 and has served as chief of the Violent Crimes and Narcotics Unit and as senior litigation counsel. Since 2012, she has been a member of the Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Crimes. She previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York.
Novick has been named chief of the Criminal Division’s Financial Fraud and Public Corruption Unit, which focuses on the investigation and prosecution of securities, commodities and investor fraud, public corruption, bank fraud and embezzlement, mortgage fraud, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, bankruptcy fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. He previously served as a deputy chief of the FFPC Unit. Novick joined the Office in 2008 after serving as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for approximately five years.
Karwan has been named a deputy chief of the FFPC Unit. Prior to joining the office in 2007, she was in private practice for six years, and served as a law clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello.
Brennan, of the FFPC Unit, has been asked to lead the Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force, which investigates corrupt public officials, the misuse of public funds and related criminal activity. He joined the Justice Department’s Fraud Section in Washington, D.C., in 2007, and moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2011.
Rodriguez-Coss has been appointed a deputy chief of the Criminal Division’s National Security and Major Crimes Unit, which is responsible for prosecuting matters involving international and domestic terrorism, civil rights and hate crimes, human trafficking and child exploitation, cybercrime and identity theft, organized crime, immigration and customs enforcement, government program and defense contractor fraud, and environmental crimes. Prior to joining the office in 2014, Rodriguez-Coss was an assistant U.S. attorney in both the District of Maryland and the District of Puerto Rico, and served as a trial attorney in the Capital Case Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
