Robert Khuzami, a former prosecutor in Manhattan, will be named the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new chief of enforcement, the Wall Street Journal’s Kara Scannell reports today. 
Khuzami in 1993 helped convict blind Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman of masterminding an attempt to blow up New York City landmarks. Now he’ll be overseeing the SEC’s civil action against Wall Street trader Bernie Madoff, who has admitted to blowing up investment portfolios around the world in a Ponzi scheme and reached a partial settlement with the SEC Monday. (Separate criminal charges against Madoff are pending).
Khuzami gave $2300 to John McCain’s presidential bid in 2007 and spoke at last year’s Republican National Convention. He was most recently Deutsche Bank’s general counsel for the Americas. He is also a former head of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, where he was an AUSA for 11 years.
