BURTON T. RYAN, JR, Senior Investigative Counsel for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, received a Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law (1975) and a B.S. in Economics from Manhattan College (1971). Mr. Ryan has been a prosecutor on the local, state and federal level for over thirty years and an adjunct professor at St. John’s University Law School. Students he has instructed have won regional and national trial competitions, including the ABA‘s White Collar Crime Trial competition.

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