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 investigated and prosecuted several high-profile financial crimes cases that resulted in top count convictions, jail time, and substantial restitution, including a recent case resulting in a court voiding 15 fraudulent deeds as part of a major deed theft scheme to defraud prosecution.

ADA Stein is currently the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Housing & Worker Protection Bureau and Chief of the Real Estate Theft Unit at the Queens D.A.’s office. She is responsible for supervising other ADAs in the Bureau, in addition to maintaining her own caseload of highly complex, large-scale financial crimes schemes, often involving the theft of generational wealth in the form of real estate, from unknowing victims. ADA Stein also works alongside state and federal law enforcement partners in the DA Office’s Counter-Terrorism Unit 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. 

From 2015-2017, ADA 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 courts.