The Commission's 2007 Edition
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New Executive Director Named

Carlos Vélez was named the Executive Director of the Commission’s Law Enforcement Bureau in June 2007. His responsibilities include overseeing and implementing the Commission’s prosecutorial and investigative mandates under the NYC Human Rights Law. Most recently, Mr. Vélez practiced law in Geneva, Switzerland, representing international civil servants at disciplinary hearings and the administrative tribunals of the International Labor Organization and the United Nations. Prior to his work abroad, he served as the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Kings County District Attorney’s Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau and Supervising Attorney of the Money Laundering Unit. As a prosecutor, Mr. Vélez conducted thousands of investigations into the sale, distribution, and use of illegal drugs and successfully oversaw many long-term investigations and prosecutions of organized narcotics trafficking. Mr. Vélez also served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Westchester County D.A.’s Office; an Assistant State’s Attorney at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago; and a Special Narcotics Assistant at the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor in NYC. Mr. Vélez received his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law and a B.A. from Ithaca College.