Compliance Hot Spots: Meet DOJ's New Fraud Section Chief + Cravath Moves to DC + Sullivan & Cromwell in Two Major Corporate Resolutions
The arrival of Glenn Leon, a former federal prosecutor and chief compliance executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, underscores the department's focus on compliance programs in corporate enforcement.
June 09, 2022 at 09:59 AM
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Compliance Hot Spots
Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. Today, we profile the new head of DOJ's fraud section, a former federal prosecutor who was most recently a compliance executive at a major multinational. Plus, Cravath seeks to splash into the regulatory market with its new D.C. office and Greenberg Traurig defends a former NFT exchange employee indicted in the first crypto insider trading case. Please get in touch with tips and feedback. Contact me at [email protected] and @AGoudsward on Twitter.
Glenn Leon, the former chief compliance officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, was named the new chief of the Justice Department's fraud section. Credit: Glenn Leon Compliance Exec Takes Charge of DOJ Fraud Section
The Justice Department this week named Glenn Leon, the chief compliance executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as the next chief of its criminal fraud section, the Main Justice unit that leads many of the government's most significant white-collar investigations and prosecutions.
Leon has been with HP since 2014 and has served in his current post, senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, since 2015. Prior to his time at the IT giant, Leon served as a supervisor in the fraud section and spent more than 12 years as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.
"With his extensive background in managing a wide range of investigations of Fortune 500 corporations and financial institutions, his courtroom experience trying more than 25 jury trials, and his expertise as in-house counsel overseeing ethics and compliance programs, Glenn has the right combination of skills to meet the moment and lead the talented women and men of the Fraud Section into their next chapter of success," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite, the head of the criminal division, said in a statement.
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