Bonnie S. Klapper  Bonnie S. Klapper (born in Brooklyn, New York, United States) was an Assistant United States Attorney in both the Central District of California and the Eastern District of New York from January 1984 to February 2012. She is currently in private practice, specializing in the defense of extraditables and in matters before the Office of Foreign Assets Control. She is a member of the bar in the States of New York, California, and the District of Columbia and has been admitted to Federal District Court in New York, California, Florida, Texas and the District of Columbia. Klapper earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, graduating magna cum laude. She received her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1982, graduating Order of the Coif. After law school, Klapper was a district court law clerk from 1982 to 1983 for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima in the Central District of California. Upon completing her clerkship, Klapper joined the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles, California, where she worked for two years in the litigation department working on complex civil litigation. In 1984, Klapper became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California, where she specialized in narcotics money laundering investigations, prosecuting the first Title 31 structuring case in the country. In 1986, Klapper became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. She began in that office's money laundering unit in Brooklyn, investigating and prosecuting both drug and non-drug money laundering cases. In 1989, Klapper moved to that office's Long Island office, where she developed an expertise in money laundering and international narcotics trafficking cases. She was one of the founders of the El Dorado Task Force, a multi-agency task force set up to combat narcotics money laundering frequently lauded as a model of interagency cooperation. At that time, she worked with what was then the U.S custom service and the Immigration and Customs and the Internal Revenue Service to help found the El Dorado Task Force, a multi-agency task force set up to combat narcotics money laundering frequently lauded as a model of interagency cooperation. In 2006, Klapper was asked to return to the Brooklyn office to become one of the founding members of the International Drug Trafficking Section. During her career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, Klapper prosecuted many of the United States' most significant money laundering and international drug trafficking cases.