Andrew Brunsden is General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs at the New York City Department of Investigation. He has extensive experience in the law of government, oversight, and investigations with a focus on public integrity, ethics, and operational matters. Before his current role, Mr. Brunsden was Special Counsel to the DOI Commissioner and Inspector General. He joined DOI in 2013 as the first Inspector General for the City Board of Elections and later served as Inspector General for several investigative units that provide oversight of various City agencies. In these roles, he supervised public corruption investigations, developed new investigative units and initiatives, and advised executives and staff on legal and policy matters. Mr. Brunsden has helped lead a number of significant DOI investigations that resulted in criminal prosecutions or public reports of findings and recommendations, including reports on the NYPD response to the George Floyd protests, the City’s program to upgrade 911 call-taking technology, and the Board of Elections.

Prior to joining DOI, Mr. Brunsden practiced criminal, regulatory, and civil litigation and investigations at the law firm Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C. He previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He graduated with a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, a Masters in Philosophy and Anthropology from the University of St. Andrews, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Brunsden is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, where he teaches courses on administrative law, public corruption law, and advanced legal methods. He has also published articles on government oversight, including an article in the William and Mary Bill of Rights Law Journal titled “Inspectors General and the Law of Oversight Independence.”

Mr. Brunsden is admitted to practice law in New York.

Daniel G. Cort brings more than three decades of law enforcement and criminal justice experience to the role of MTA Inspector General, which he assumed in June 2023. He came to OIG from the New York City Department of Investigation, where he served from 2018 as First Deputy Commissioner. He was DOI's Acting Commissioner from November 2021 to February 2022.

Prior to DOI, Inspector General Cort was Chief of the Public Integrity Bureau at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, leading a team of lawyers, investigators, analysts, and auditors who investigated and prosecuted government corruption, fraud, and abuse of authority across New York State. Under his leadership, that bureau's prosecutions led to the convictions of several judges, a member of the State Assembly, and numerous other public servants.

Inspector General Cort previously worked in the New York County District Attorney’s Office for 19 years as an Assistant District Attorney, including as Chief of the Public Integrity Unit. He also served as Deputy Bureau Chief and Acting Bureau Chief of the Rackets Bureau and as a Senior Investigative Counsel. He tried numerous cases in State Supreme Court, including the successful prosecution of a Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Buildings on corruption charges. He secured the conviction of an NYC Councilmember on campaign finance-related crimes, was lead prosecutor in a multi-year investigation that resulted in the felony convictions and disbarments of fourteen lawyers, and tried a reckless manslaughter case stemming from the death and serious injuries of construction workers.

Inspector General Cort began his professional career in 1988 as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, and served as Assistant Counsel at the New York State Commission of Investigation from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 1995, he worked as a Nominations Counsel at the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and is a cum laude graduate of Drew University.

Ned Schwartz is Deputy Inspector General and General Counsel of the Nassau County Office of the Inspector General. Immediately prior to that position, Ned was a Senior Associate Counsel in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Inspector General’s Office. There, as Chief of the OIG’s Procurement Integrity Unit, he headed the investigation described in the case study.

Ned has been a member of the IG community for over 40 years, at four levels of government. In earlier roles, he was a regional Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Transportation OIG, and a Deputy Inspector General for the City of New York. Ned is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia. He received his JD from New York Law School and has two undergraduate degrees from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ned serves as a Board member and vice president in the AIG’s New York/New Jersey Chapter.