The Justice Department has promoted a Brooklyn line attorney to oversee a heightened focus on white-collar enforcement at the intersection of national security.
Ian Richardson, who spent the past eight years as a prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, will be the National Security Division’s first chief counsel for corporate enforcement, the department announced Monday.
The move comes amid a broader push to staff up NSD with additional prosecutors to investigate companies and individuals for export controls and sanctions violations.
“We have watched with concern as investigations of corporate misconduct increasingly reveal violations of laws that protect the ...
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