Junior Employee of Dewey & LeBoeuf Cleared of Charges

Zachary Warren, the junior staff employee who faced criminal charges of accounting fraud in connection with the bankruptcy of Dewey & LeBoeuf, was officially cleared of those charges on Friday following a court hearing in Manhattan.

Last February, Warren, 32, entered a deferred prosecution agreement with Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, under the terms that charges would be dropped in one year if he completed 350 hours of community service.

The official dismissal of charges came Friday morning, about a month before the one year had expired, after prosecutors moved for the charges to be dropped. New York Supreme Court Judge Robert ...