Justice Department Said to Tap Ex-FBI Lawyer as Fraud Chief
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The U.S. Justice Department has tapped Andrew Weissmann, a former top lawyer at the FBI, to lead prosecution of financial and corporate fraud, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Weissmann, who led the Enron Task Force, will oversee U.S. investigations into interest-rate manipulation and foreign bribery, said the people, who asked not to be named because the hiring hasn’t been made public. He is now a professor at the New York University School of Law.