covert world of mercenary work as well as selling missile technology to Iran and smuggling weapons to rebels and warlords. In June 2018, Judge Abrams presided over a trial of individuals charged with helping run a scheme, masterminded by serial fraudster Jason Galanis, to defraud a Native American tribe and multiple pension funds through the issuance of $60 million worth of tribal bonds. The judge ordered a new trial for one of the men convicted, Devon Archer, concluding that it was not clear that Archer knew that the bond issue was fraudulent, or that he received any personal benefit from it. Abrams said she was thus “left with an unwavering concern that Archer is innocent of the crimes charged.” Archer's conviction was reinstated by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which clarified the standard for when a district court may grant a new trial, holding that it may not do so "based on the weight of the evidence alone unless the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict to such an extent that it would be 'manifest injustice' to let the verdict stand." Archer was business partners with Hunter Biden, although Biden was not implicated in the scheme. A lawyer for Hunter Biden has said that he cut ties with those involved when he learned of the conduct alleged. In July 2018, Judge Abrams presided over the trial in an action brought by Enrichetta Ravina, a former finance professor at Columbia University's Business School against Columbia and a more senior tenured professor, Geert Bekaert, for sex discrimination and retaliation. The jury found that Ravina had not been sexually harassed but that she had been retaliated against by Bekaert, who wrote at least 30 emails calling Ravina "evil" and "crazy," including to a number of industry players at the Federal Reserve Bank, top-tier universities and economic journals. Personal life Abrams and her husband, Greg Donald Andres, formerly a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. were married in 2001 by Judge Loretta A. Preska. Greg Andres served with Robert Mueller on the Special Counsel investigation. See also List of Jewish American jurists References External links 1968 births Living people 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Columbia Law School faculty Cornell University alumni Dalton School alumni Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyers Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Lawyers from New