Alona
Katz
Alona Katz is chief of the newly formed Virtual Currency Unit at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Katz has been working in the field of criminal justice for over 20 years, starting her career as an investigator before attending Rutgers School of Law in Newark. After law school graduation, Ms. Katz joined the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor where she worked as a prosecutor from 2011 – 2015. She joined the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in 2015 where she was later promoted to deputy bureau chief and oversaw an array of investigations involving cryptocurrency, technology, and money laundering. In 2018, she was recognized as “Prosecutor of the Year” by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators for the New York Metro Division.