Walmart Hires Justice’s Ex-Acting Fraud Chief as Vice President

Walmart Inc. said it hired Justice Department ex-acting chief of fraud Joe Beemsterboer as vice president for government enforcement and legal investigations.

Beemsterboer spent more than 12 years at Justice’s fraud section, including a year as acting chief, before leaving last month. He led the health care fraud unit for three years prior to taking leadership roles at the section.

His work at Justice, and five years before that as a prosecutor with the Cook County, Ill., State’s Attorney’s Office, “will translate very well to Walmart,” company spokesman Randy Hargrove said.

The Justice section Beemsterboer led, within the agency’s criminal ...