WBASNY Virtual Convention 2021 Journal

Continuing Legal Education Presenters

Elizabeth Roper

Elizabeth Roper is the Chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau (CITB) at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. CITB handles prosecutions involving cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, including computer and network intrusions, intellectual property theft, child sexual abuse material, identity theft, check and credit card fraud, and money laundering. She joined the Office in 2006, and spent five years handling a wide spectrum of cases in the Trial Division. In 2011 Ms. Roper was assigned to the Official Corruption Unit where she investigated misconduct by uniformed officials in New York City. In 2013 she joined the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau full time. She was a member of the

trial team that secured the convictions, on 99 counts, of a Ukrainian national who was trafficking in stolen credit card data and his U.S.-based customers. In 2014, she was named Deputy Chief of CITB. In that capacity, she oversaw the investigation and prosecution of a variety of cybercrime and fraud cases, as well as the development of the Cybercrime Intelligence Unit. Ms. Roper was also a member of the trial team in People v. Aleynikov, CITB’s prosecution of a computer programmer who stole valuable code for a high-frequency trading platform. After the defendant was convicted, she handled the appellate litigation in that case, resulting in the conviction being affirmed by both the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals. In 2018, she was named Chief of CITB. In her current role, she oversees a staff of approximately 70 people, including the attorneys and analysts who handle CITB’s investigations and prosecutions, the CIU, and the High Technology Analysis Unit (HTAU), which is responsible for the digital forensics work across the District Attorney’s office.