Head of the DOJ’s Criminal Division to speak at CW National Conference

As they sing in “Hamilton,” you want to be “in the room where it happens.”

In this case, the room is the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., and what’s happening is the May 7 keynote address by A. Tysen Duva, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

This will be AAG Duva’s first public appearance before the compliance community since the DOJ unveiled its new Corporate Enforcement Policy in March.

In July, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was recently named acting Attorney General with the dismissal of AG Pam Bondi, spoke to a crowd of compliance officers at the Fellows meeting of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI), a sister organization of Compliance Week. (Both are owned by Verdian Insights).

Blanche told the assembled compliance officers that the department’s encouragement of companies to self-disclose misconduct did not represent a pullback by the DOJ in white collar enforcement.

In May, former DOJ Criminal Division head Matthew Galeotti had described a change in DOJ enforcement policy in which white-collar crimes would be moved to the back burner while immigration enforcement, as well as investigations of foreign drug cartels and international money laundering, moved to the front.

In June, the DOJ announced it was taking a step back from imposing monitorships, in exchange for the business community taking more responsibility for self-disclosure.

By October, the DOJ had ended a number of significant monitorships early, a Compliance Week review found.

AAG Duva has served in this role since December 2025, overseeing more than 1,100 federal prosecutors and staff across investigations and prosecutions spanning organized crime, cybercrime, public corruption, money laundering, securities and health care fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, sanctions offenses, and more.

Before joining the division, Duva spent nearly two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, where he built a record fighting financial crime and public corruption and led complex federal prosecutions. He is a recipient of multiple federal agency awards, including the 2024 FBI Director’s Recognition of Excellence.

He joins a keynote lineup that includes Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)’s Greg Ruppert.

For more information on CW National and to register, visit the official event page.