Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the DoJ announced today that Andrew Weissmann has been named Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. Weissmann fills the position left vacant in September 2014 when Jeffrey H. Knox departed the DOJ to join law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. The Chief of the Fraud Section is responsible for leading the DoJ’s prosecution of fraud cases including securities fraud, healthcare fraud, financial fraud and defense procurement fraud, as well as all FCPA criminal investigations and prosecutions in the United States.
