Vikas Khanna
Acting United States Attorney // District of New Jersey
Vikas Khanna serves as the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, overseeing all federal criminal prosecutions and civil litigation involving the federal government within the state. He is responsible for managing the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Newark, Camden, and Trenton, supervising a team of approximately 155 federal prosecutors and 130 support staff members.
Mr. Khanna previously held the position of First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from January 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, from 2019 to early 2022, he worked as a partner at a law firm. Between 2011 and 2019, Mr. Khanna served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey, where he began in the General Crimes Unit and the Special Prosecutions Division. He was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Health Care and Government Fraud Unit in June 2017, and later became Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in June 2018.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Khanna worked in private practice from 2007 to 2010. In 2006, he clerked for the Honorable Mark Wolf, Chief Judge of the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Khanna is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.
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