Rachel Stein has worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office since graduating from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2010. Throughout her time at the District Attorney’s Office, she has completed misdemeanor and felony trials and indicted several high profile financial crimes cases that resulted in top count guilty pleas and substantial restitution, including a recent case resulting in nearly half a million dollars in restitution to a grieving widow approaching retirement.

Mrs. Stein is currently the Unit Chief of the Real Estate Theft Unit in the Housing & Worker Protection Bureau, and in the Counter-Terrorism Unit at the Queens D.A.’s office. In her role as Unit Chief, she is responsible for supervising and investigating highly complex, large-scale financial crimes schemes, often involving the theft of generational wealth in the form of real estate, from unknowing victims. In the Counter-Terrorism Unit, she works alongside state and federal law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute highly sensitive matters involving national security.

Prior to her current role in the Investigations Division, she was assigned to a felony trial bureau, where she handled a variety of felonies from arrest through grand jury and trial. She has also previously been selected to be a part of the District Attorney’s Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau Riding Program, where for one week a month she acted as a liaison between the District Attorney’s office and the police department. In that capacity, she interviewed suspects, drafted search warrants, responded to police precincts to conduct line ups, and otherwise helped enhance criminal investigations.

From 2015-2017, Mrs. Stein worked at a mid-sized litigation firm in Manhattan, where she served as lead attorney for general commercial litigation matters in New York Federal and State court