A federal court has appointed Jay Clayton to continue serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York as his term as interim attorney came to an end without him receiving Senate confirmation.
Clayton, who previously served as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was named in November by then-President-elect Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is one of the top prosecutor positions in the United States, with high-profile cases like the one against rapper Sean Diddy Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell.
