By Matt Squire m.squire@fortent.com James Freis Jr., a deputy assistant general counsel for the U.S. Treasury Department, has been named director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the bureau charged with administering anti-money laundering regulations. He replaces Robert Werner, who left FinCEN at the end of 2006 for a job at Merrill Lynch & Co. William F. Baity has served as acting deputy director since the beginning of this year. In his role at the general counsel's office, Freis, 36, provides legal support to the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and supervises the legal counsel for FinCEN,...
A former director of the nation's financial intelligence unit will join the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as of counsel, the law firm said Monday.
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