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DOJ’s AML Chief Will Head New York’s Economic Crimes Bureau
printThe New York District Attorney's Office has hired a prominent U.S. Justice Department official to head a new bureau established to investigate financial fraud, bribery, terrorist financing and money laundering. The new group, the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, combines the Frauds Bureau with attorneys from its Investigation Division Central division, according to a statement from the office released Thursday. Richard Weber, currently the chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, will head the bureau. Weber's departure is the second and most prominent name to leave the Justice Department's money laundering division this month. Wells Fargo...
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