Sherry Haus

Ms. Haus previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Eastern District of California, where she investigated, prosecuted, and tried cases for the white collar criminal division of one of the largest and busiest federal districts in the country. She focused on economic crimes, including tax fraud, financial fraud, public corruption, procurement fraud, healthcare fraud, and cases involving child exploitation.  She prosecuted a massive unemployment and disability fraud case, involving hundreds of claimants, which Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. called “one of the longest-running, most sophisticated fraud schemes that [the court has] ever seen.”  Ms. Haus also successfully opposed an appeal before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by a former San Joaquin County supervisor and his legal aide in that county’s largest public corruption scandal.

Prior to her work as a federal prosecutor, Sherry specialized in white collar criminal defense and securities litigation defense and counseling at a major international law firm.

Ms. Haus is staunchly committed to pro bono legal work in a variety of arenas. She has performed significant pro bono work in a variety of areas, including immigration, civil rights, constitutional law, diplomatic immunity, and international human trafficking, as well as domestic violence matters. She was a key member of a team that provided legal advice regarding amendments to a country’s peace agreement. She also served on a team that drafted legislation to address sextortion as part of a national effort to craft state laws to address what the FBI has identified as “by far the most significant growing threat to children” on the Internet.