Matthew Bogdanos

Matthew Bogdanos has been an assistant district attorney in Manhattan since 1988. A colonel in the Marine reserves and an amateur boxer, he holds a law degree and a master’s in classics from Columbia University, as well as a master’s in strategic studies from the Army War College. Recalled to active duty after September 11, 2001, Bogdanos received a Bronze Star for counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and served in Iraq in 2003 and again in 2004. Released from active duty in October 2005, Bogdanos returned to the district attorney’s office and heads New York’s first antiquities task force.