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I am a White Collar and Litigation partner at BakerHostetler, and serve as the Partner-in-Charge of the San Francisco Office. My practice focuses on complex commercial and civil litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues, criminal and regulatory enforcement, compliance, and internal investigations. Prior to joining BakerHostetler, I served for two years as the Executive Director of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, working within DOJ’s Office of the Deputy Attorney General in Washington, DC. As head of the Task Force, which was formed by the President and chaired by the U.S. Attorney General, I was responsible for directing the largest coalition ever assembled to combat financial fraud. I worked with top leaders of the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and more than 25 other federal and state enforcement agencies to confront an array of fraud, including corporate, securities, and commodities fraud; antitrust violations; procurement fraud; False Claims Act violations; and fraud within the mortgage and finance industry.Prior to leading the Task Force, I spent eight years as a criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, focusing on white collar fraud prosecutions, and served as the Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Orange County. I served as lead counsel in more than 50 prosecutions and as first chair in numerous complex fraud trials.From 2005 to 2007, I was a member of the Enron Task Force, serving as a trial attorney in the landmark criminal trial against Enron CEOs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. I also conducted a separate trial against Ken Lay on bank fraud charges, delivering the opening statement and closing argument, resulting in conviction on all counts.

Listed skills include White Collar Criminal Defense, Litigation, Internal Investigations, Trials, and 28 others.