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Proposed Wikipedia page for Robert W. Seiden

Robert W. Seiden is a lawyer, business owner , former accomplished Manhattan prosecutor , forensic investigator and an accomplished U.S. court-appointed receiver over publicly-listed Chinese companies.

Robert has successfully conducted court-appointed receiverships and construction monitorships over the past 10 years, including on the Freedom Tower construction project in New York as well as for companies in the U.S. and abroad.

Robert was previously for eleven (11) years a Senior Prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, New York County under Robert M. Morgenthau from 1988 to 1999. In this capacity, he investigated and prosecuted hundreds of cases of money laundering, fraud, embezzlement and other white collar and violent crimes.

Over the past decade, Robert was chosen by the United States Department of State to participate in global presentations on international issues, including money laundering, terrorist financing, hiding assets and other international issues with leaders of government and law enforcement from Hong Kong, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Robert has been an invited speaker at industry-related conferences around the U.S. on topics related to conducting investigations and finding hidden assets. He has been a panel moderator at American Corporate Counsel annual meeting and was on a select panel at the Harvard Club in New York City in 2013 where he spoke as an expert on recovering investor funds from Chinese RTO companies.

Robert presented at a national conference on recovering assets when companies go dark at The Westin Hotel in Manhattan in 2015.

Robert has been published several times on issues related to conducting corporate investigations. These include the following from the New York Law Journal: •	"Private Investigator: Application of the Attorney-Client Privilege". (New York Law Journal) http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=900005453918&Private_Investigator_Application_of_the_AttorneyClient (2006)

•	"How Lawyers and Investigators Work Together Post-Enron". (New York Law Journal) http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=900005415334&slreturn=2012081411432 (2004)

Robert has also been cited in publications by the Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”). See: http://www.pli.edu/product_files/booksamples/601_sample9.pdf

Robert has appeared as a guest expert on broadcasts of MSNBC, CourtTV and FOX News and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Growth Capital on a variety of business and investigative issues. Robert’s successes in China have been featured in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. See for example: “Receiver Gains Control of Some Assets of China’s ZST” at the following:  http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324766604578460942948101224 , http://www.wsj.com/articles/court-appointee-chases-and-finds-investor-cash-that-vanished-in-china-1434918506 and http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/business/dealbook/bounty-hunter-tracks-chinese-companies-that-dupe-investors.html

Robert was chosen as the lead investigator in a massive multi-national fraud investigation involving the defalcation and laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars by individuals from a Lebanese bank that spread to recovery of assets in Geneva, Switzerland and other countries as well as judgments domesticated in New York and Maryland. The case received widespread international media attention and Robert and his team worked with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Europe to identify hidden assets. See: “Following the Old Money Trail” (US News & World Report, Ed Pound, March 2005) and The New York Sun (Benny Avni, March 23, 2006).

Robert has extensive experience in the not-for-profit and volunteer world. He was an elected Trustee of the public school Board of Education in Port Washington New York for nine (9) years, from 2002 to 2011, including three (3) years as the School Board President and currently still serves as the Chairman of the Port Washington Emergency Preparedness Committee and the Port Washington Legislative Task Force. Robert is the founder and President of the not-for-profit Port Washington Crisis Relief Team. Robert was awarded the Hometown Hero award in 2012 for his efforts leading a volunteer group that helped thousands of victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and the recipient of the Red Cross Annual Volunteer of the Year award.

Robert is a member of the Board of Directors of American Red Cross and has volunteered for Red Cross of Nassau County after the 9/11 attacks as a volunteer at the World Trade Center site and has also volunteered for The American Red Cross of Greater New York at the Harlem Service Center at the annual youth conference.

Robert is the son of a former U.S. Marine who served in combat overseas in the Korean War. Robert’s mother worked as a legal secretary for 40 years in Manhattan. Robert grew up in Brooklyn, New York, attended NYC public schools, Mark Twain Junior High School, Lincoln High School and is a graduate of New York University (BA, with honors, 1985) and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (JD, 1988) (Dr. Samuel Belkin Scholar and Moot Court Board editor). He has been admitted to the New York State bar since 1989. Robert is a licensed investigator by the State of New York Department of State Division of Licensing Services since 2003 and actively maintains his law license in New York State. Robert is a certified Receiver pursuant to New York State Court Rules Part 36 (Fiduciary # 667617).