Chief federal law enforcement officer for over 9 million residents, charged with oversight of all litigation, criminal and civil, in which the United States is involved in the Northern District of California. Led 100+ AUSAs and staff professionals in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose responsible for prosecuting crimes including white collar matters, anti money laundering, healthcare fraud, CARES Act fraud, cyber intrusions, public corruption, human trafficking, violent crime, narcotics distribution, and national security. Directed civil litigation involving civil judicial forfeiture, civil liability, and other civil actions.

Handled all the duties of the United States Attorney in his absence, including supervising cases in which he was recused; assisted the United States Attorney in leading the office and overseeing all federal cases in the district; oversaw Criminal Outreach and Public Communication.

Ten-month detail managing OCDETF program nationally; revised financial investigations training program-wide and coordinating OCDETF’s role in combating COVID-19 Fraud schemes through the multi-agency intelligence-sharing resource of the OCDETF Fusion Center and case coordination and intelligence resources at IOC-2.

Developed and spearheaded efforts under the Criminal Outreach Program, among other areas.

Oversaw Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, Organized Crime Strike Force, and Asset Forfeiture Sections.

Led and litigated all criminal and civil judicial forfeiture cases; advise, counsel and provide training to state, local and federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors on federal forfeiture and money laundering laws. Developed and taught Financial Investigative Seminars sponsored by the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) at DOJ. These seminars serve as the primary DOJ training course directed at agents, analysts and lawyers providing the investigative and prosecutorial roadmap to conducting forfeiture and money laundering investigations.

Prosecuted federal crimes, including narcotic offenses, firearm violations, violent crime, public corruption, fraud and money laundering offenses; litigated asset forfeiture cases. Trial and appellate practice.