The U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section is advertising for a new compliance counsel to replace Hui Chen, who was hired nearly two years ago as a contract adviser to bring an in-house compliance counsel viewpoint into the department. Chen was the first lawyer to hold the post.

Her departure might come as no surprise, since she has been tweeting out her unhappiness with the Trump administration since May 10, one day after the president fired then-FBI director James Comey over his investigation into possible interference from Russia into the presidential election.

Chen declined to comment on her impending departure and her tweets. A Justice Department spokesman, Wyn Hornbuckle, said Chen's contract was due to expire in September.

“The compliance consultant's existing contract is set to end in September 2017, and the current postings for a compliance expert seek a successor to continue the existing compliance consultant's excellent work in strengthening the Section's compliance program,” Hornbuckle said in a statement.

Hornbuckle said the consultant post “has greatly assisted the Fraud Section's evaluation of company compliance and remediation efforts, trained attorneys in the Section and in other components of the Department of Justice on compliance issues, worked with attorneys in the selection and training of monitors, and assisted the Section in creating a list of sample compliance questions that may be asked to evaluate compliance programs.”

Chen's departure from the Fraud Section, a component of the Criminal Division, will follow that of her boss, Andrew Weissmann, who is joining the legal team of special counsel Robert Mueller III, the former Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner who is leading the Russia investigation. Weissmann, chief of the Fraud Section, previously served as general counsel to the FBI under Mueller's leadership.

The new compliance counsel will be hired for a term of two years, and the contract may be extended for additional terms. The pay is $131,767 to $161,900 a year.

Among other things, the new counsel will assist the Fraud Section in evaluating corporate compliance standards and efforts; work with monitors appointed to fraud section cases; and consult with DOJ litigation attorneys on cases involving corporate compliance matters.

The position, which appears to seek a full-time employee rather than a contract consultant, requires at least four years of legal experience, with at least one year of “specialized” experience, such as “a senior compliance position within a multinational company.”

Chen, who was hired in November 2015, brought considerably more experience than that.

Before becoming DOJ's consultant, she served as global head for anti-bribery and corruption at Standard Chartered Bank. She previously worked as assistant general counsel in Pfizer Inc.'s compliance division, and various in-house positions at Microsoft Corp., including director of legal compliance for the greater China area.

In the early 1990s she also served as a criminal trial attorney for the DOJ, and then as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. And she has served as a visitor scholar at Cambridge University and an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University School of Law.

If you're interested in the compliance counsel job, you have until June 27 to apply.

This story was updated with comment from the Justice Department.

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