Tanya Hajjar is the Chief of the Organized Crime and Gangs Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Tanya has investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of criminal matters, including cases involving racketeering, murder, sex trafficking, forced labor, extortion, and obstruction of justice, many of which she tried to verdict and briefed and argued on appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Tanya was a law clerk for the Honorable Carol B. Amon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also previously worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Tanya received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an editor of the Columbia Law Review.