James D. Harmon, Jr., chief executive officer of The Harmon Firm, is a West Point graduate who holds a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law of Penn State and a Master of Laws degree in trade regulation from the New York University School of Law.
From 1971 through 1986, he held various law enforcement positions including: Executive Director and Chief Counsel, President’s Commission on Organized Crime; Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Attorney’s Office; Deputy Chief, Organized Crime Strike Force, Eastern District of New York and Assistant District Attorney, Homicide Bureau, New York County.
During this period, Mr. Harmon spent one year as a federal prosecutor working with the Joint Terrorist Task Force in New York, investigating and prosecuting a terrorist organization.
While with the President’s Commission during the Reagan administration,
Mr. Harmon testified before various Congressional committees in support of anti-money laundering legislation which the President’s Commission had drafted and advocated. This initiative led Congress to make money laundering a crime for the first time. The Commission also urged labor and business to use their own resources to remove the influence of organized crime from the marketplace, aided by the government’s temporary takeover of certain unions, including the Teamsters Union.
For over ten years, through the Fall of 1997, Mr. Harmon was engaged in the private practice of law. He has extensive trial and appellate litigation experience in federal and state courts in New York and elsewhere, and has successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court. His law practice focused on civil and criminal representation of business interests in commercial, employment discrimination and white crime contexts. This included internal and financial investigations, as well as the development of business codes of ethics and compliance programs.
Among his published articles are: RICO Meets Keiretsu: A Response to Predatory Transfer Pricing, 25 Vanderbilt J. of Transnt’l L. 3 (1992); United States Money Laundering Laws: International Implications, 9 N.Y.L. Sch. J. of Int’l. and Comp. L. 1 (1988).
Mr. Harmon is a decorated combat veteran of the United States Army as a result of
service in Vietnam.
He recently testified before committees of the New York State legislature concerning the issues of identity theft and the impact of information processing technology on personal privacy.
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