Aloke Chakravarty

Assistant U.S. Attorney

Aloke is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Massachusetts where he concentrates on Anti-Terrorism and National Security matters. Aloke had previously served as Assistant General Counsel at the FBI and as an Attorney at the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review at the Department of Justice, where he provided legal support for FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations. For the past eight years, Aloke has primarily focused on investigating and prosecuting cases involving terrorism financing, international and domestic terrorist networking, home-grown terrorist development, and the exploitation of homeland security vulnerabilities. In addition, Aloke investigates and prosecutes sensitive export control violations, international human rights violators who are in the United States, and is a member of the office’s Civil Rights Enforcement team. Aloke coordinates international issues and crisis management issues for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and also leads extensive outreach to the important community partners who are most impacted by the current security environment and the response thereto. Aloke worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and left to become a state prosecutor in Massachusetts, first at the Middlesex District Attorney’s office, and later at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, where he brought a wide variety of criminal cases. Aloke has extensive trial experience in the state and federal courts, has taught trial advocacy among other topics, and writes and speaks frequently about ways to reconcile national security investigative priorities with all due respect for civil rights. Most of Aloke’s cases involve diverse defendants of varied immigrant communities and he frequently confronts the need to responsibly avoid improper factors from influencing the court, while also ensuring that relevant contextual facts are not unnecessarily suppressed. Mr. Chakravarty graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the Emory School of Law.