Areas of expertise include
- Cybersecurity
- Cybercrime
- Criminal justice
- Privacy
- Law
About John Bandler
- Lawyer
- Consultant
- Author
- Teacher
- Speaker
- As an assistant district attorney at the Manhattan DA’s office (2002 - 2015) and hired by the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau, John Bandler headed a successful pioneering prosecution of a complex cybercrime case resulting in guilty pleas and then guilty verdicts after trial. This was a ground breaking investigation and prosecution into international cybercrime trafficking of stolen data and money laundering with virtual currency and through the conventional financial system.
In addition to global cybercrime, he also investigated and litigated a wide variety of cases ranging from violent street crime to identity theft and financial crime. - He is the founder and principal of Bandler Law Firm PLLC and Bandler Group LLC.
A law firm and a consulting practice to help with cybersecurity, cybercrime, investigations, data privacy, anti-money laundering, compliance, governance, and more (2015 - present). - Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law
- Adjunct Lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Author of two books and many articles
Cybersecurity for the Home and Office
Cybercrime Investigations - Creator of courses on cyber, privacy, law, and policies
- Former New York state trooper (1994 - 2002)
- Former U.S. Army officer
Media mentions and appearances
John is regularly consulted and quoted in various media based on his experiences with cybersecurity, cybercrime, criminal justice, law, and more. A sampling of some of the mentions is below (links take you to the external news site).
- Legal filing: NYPD illegally used sealed arrest records in Adams bail reform ‘publicity stunt’, Gothamist, 12/20/2022
- I explain the value of sealed records for investigative purposes. Of course, law enforcement needs to obtain information and evidence lawfully and properly, which may require a court order to unseal records first.
- '900K will resolve it': Court docs reveal settlement talks in Handy beating case, Times Union, 12/02/2022
- Transit police officials blast DA Hayden for dismissing misconduct charge against their own officer, The Boston Globe, 10/31/2022 (paywall)
- Suffolk tipped off to possible cyberattack months before Sept. 8, Newsday, 10/15/2022
- Suffolk County ransomware attack: What you need to know, Newsday, 9/20/2022
- Cybercriminals claim responsibility for Suffolk cyber hack, county says, Newsday, 9/16/2022
- An off-duty Suffolk police officer escaped alcohol testing after a car crash that fractured 2-year-old Riordan Cavooris’ skull, Newsday, 8/19/2022
- A former Eastchester Police Department officer is alleging that the department focused excessively on vehicle and traffic tickets, Journal News/LoHud, 7/21/2022 (paywall)
- Hackers breached several of MTA's computer systems in April, WABC New York Eyewitness news, 6/2/2021
- NYC rolls back qualified immunity for police officers, Pix 11, 3/26/2021
- Suffolk police let Peter Fedden go after a drunken-driving crash. He got back behind the wheel and died, Newsday, 4/21/2022
- Metaverse experts reveal if you can MURDER someone in virtual world - and whether you can be punished, NY Post, 4/10/2022
- PREDATOR 'HAVEN' Warning Metaverse is a ‘playground for pedophiles as sex offenders can groom kids using child-friendly avatars’, US Sun, 4/7/2022
- Ransomware and cyber attacks could test New York SHIELD Act, Crain's New York, 6/10/2021 (paywall)
- Travis DA Jose Garza faces uphill battle in cases against officers, Austin American Statesman, 4/5/2021, (paywall)
- Data Privacy and Consumer Protection, WSHU The Full Story, 6/25/2019
- Quest Diagnostics Says Up to 12 Million Patients May Have Had Financial, Medical, Personal Information Breached, NBC New York, 6/3/2019
- Getting Rid of Tree Roots From Next Door, NY Times, 6/3/2017,
- Street gangs turn to white collar crime, Marketplace, 3/9/2016
Conclusion
I believe in the importance of our free press and good journalism. I try to help journalists understand the issues, law and facts. I present my perspective so they can do their job well when presenting to their audience. Hopefully they have done good research into the facts and spoken to many sources of information and insight. Often, my view of the facts is based upon what the journalist presents to me, or other reporting (if I have time to research it).
Sometimes I provide them with an opinion based upon information provided to me. Since my opinion is based on information provided to me, it could change if I learned about additional facts.
I do not control anything the journalist writes or does, nor their opinions, nor what their editor and publisher does. It is their piece and I have no control over it. I don't control which ten seconds of my statements they choose to quote or play. I don't control whether there is a "spin" to the article. I might share hundreds or thousands of words with a reporter on a particular inquiry and it is their choice what they choose to quote and why. My hope is that I influenced their reporting in a positive way, towards facts, logic, reason, and fairness.
My hope is that consumers of news also ask for and expect this type of reporting, based on these positive attributes and not based on fear, anger, or demonization.
Thus, my listing of media mentions does not imply approval of the article, nor of how I was quoted.
Above, sometimes I add a short blurb which is my takeaway, and probably not related to how I was quoted or attributed.
This page is hosted at https://johnbandler.com/media-mentions-and-appearances. Copyright John Bandler, all rights reserved. Of course, no claim to the work of the media linked to.
Updated 2/10/2024.