During her decade-long tenure as a prosecutor, Nicole led and supervised numerous complex investigations and prosecutions, including those involving official corruption, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Patriot Act, and mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and bribery offenses. She tried nine jury trials to verdict, including multiple racketeering cases, a death penalty case, and most recently, a civil rights case charging a Bureau of Prisons lieutenant with the repeated sexual assault of a female inmate under his supervision. In these matters, Nicole coordinated with, among others, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FBI, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Internal Revenue Service, and various foreign, federal, state, and local prosecutors, regulators, and law enforcement agencies.
In 2017, the New York City Bar Association awarded Nicole the Henry L. Stimson medal for Outstanding Prosecution. That same year, she received the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Prosecutor of the Year Award.
Before entering public service, Nicole spent five years in the white collar practice of a major international law firm. In that role, she represented both individuals and corporations in federal and state enforcement proceedings and conducted internal investigations on matters related to potential fraud, revenue manipulation, and banking violations.
Between 2014 and 2018, Nicole served as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University Law School, co-teaching two courses on federal litigation and federal criminal prosecutions.
