Jason M. Manning | Partner

Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. 1998

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

M.S.F.S. 2007

Georgetown University Law Center

magna cum laude Global Law Scholar J.D. 2007

Professional Associations

Anti-Corruption Action Network
Member

Admissions

District of Columbia*

New York

Mr. Manning’s application to the District of Columbia is pending and he currently practices in the District of Columbia under the supervision of an admitted attorney.

Mr. Manning is an experienced trial attorney and former federal prosecutor. His practice includes white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex civil litigation.

Mr. Manning has more than a dozen years of litigation experience. He has tried seven cases to judgment, obtaining successful results in every trial, and he has resolved complex corporate cases through deferred prosecution agreements and other resolutions. He has appeared in federal district and appellate courts across the country.

After clerking for the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and practicing at two international law firms in New York City, Mr. Manning joined the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, where he investigated and prosecuted financial fraud, money laundering, sanctions violations, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Mr. Manning’s responsibilities included leading investigative teams comprised of agents from the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Services and other law enforcement agencies, as well as many components of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Manning’s investigations often spanned the globe: he has coordinated with foreign authorities to conduct depositions and gather evidence in Austria, Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere.  He has received accolades for spearheading highly complex and impactful cases. In 2021, Mr. Manning received the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service based on his lead role prosecuting fraud and foreign bribery crimes perpetrated by an Ohio-based intercountry adoption agency.

Further, following the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Mr. Manning served on detail to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. There, he investigated and prosecuted cases as part of the most wide-ranging undertaking in the Justice Department’s history. Mr. Manning’s service included successfully conducting five felony trials arising from the Capitol riot and obtaining numerous guilty pleas.