Erica Liu, previously chief of the Opioid Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Unit created in early 2018, was more recently promoted to deputy chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, supervising upward of 30 attorneys in four units. Beyond her prosecutions (including the case of a doctor “who called himself the ‘El Chapo of Opioids,’” according to the office), Liu has frequently traveled to speak with officials and law enforcement on the opioid epidemic. Earlier this year, she led a nationwide Justice Department effort targeting a large health-care fraud operation. Liu, a first-generation American, previously was an assistant Essex County prosecutor.

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