John and Lawrence Bonzani Memorial Law Lecture: Duty to Disclose: When is it Okay to Remain Silent? with lecturer: Michael Zeldin '73 CNN Legal Analyst and Former Mueller Aide (Virtual)

Michael F. Zeldin '73

CNN Legal Analyst Former Mueller Aide

Michael F. Zeldin ’73 is a CNN legal analyst and provides legal commentary on various radio shows and podcasts. He is an internationally recognized financial crimes expert. He has served clients and lectured throughout the world on topics ranging from money laundering, terrorist financing and economic sanctions. 

Zeldin is a board member of the Association of Certified Financial Crimes Specialists, as well as a member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He has lectured throughout the U.S. and internationally on financial crime topics as well as testified before the U.S. House of Representatives (Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime) on the topic of international money laundering.

Zeldin is a member of the board of KEEN Greater DC, an organization that empowers youth with disabilities by providing free, non-competitive, one-to-one programs of exercise, fitness and fun, led by volunteer coaches.

He also serves as a committee member of KidSave, which endeavors to end the institutionalization of abandoned children through programming which enables the adoption of older children throughout the world. 

Zeldin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Binghamton University, a Juris Doctor from George Washington University, and a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University where he was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow.

Before joining CNN as a legal analyst, Zeldin served as special counsel at Buckley Sandler LLP’s Washington office, offering experienced guidance to companies inside and outside the financial services industry as well to individual board members and senior executives surrounding their responsibilities under anti-money laundering laws.