Leslie R. Caldwell

Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice, Leslie R. Caldwell

Leslie R. Caldwell is an American attorney, and was until January 13, 2017 the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice. She has spent the majority of her professional career handling federal criminal cases, as both a prosecutor and as defense attorney.[1] Since September 2017, she has been a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, resident in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA.

Caldwell served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1987 to 1998, after which she was recruited by then US Attorney Robert Mueller to serve as Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Securities Fraud Section of the United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of California; she served from 1999 to 2002.

Background

In 2002, Caldwell was selected to lead a team of investigators and prosecutors in the Department of Justice’s Enron Task Force.[1] In that role, she recruited a team of federal prosecutors and agents from around the country to investigate the collapse of the former Fortune No. 7 company. Under Caldwell's leadership, more than 30 individuals were successfully prosecuted for their roles in fraud at Enron.

She received a B. A. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1979, and a J. D. from the George Washington University Law School in 1982.[1]

Proving to be a highlight of her time with New York's Eastern District was Caldwell's successful conviction of New York drug lord Howard "Pappy" Mason for the murder of Officer Edward Bryne.[2] Another landmark achievement of her career was the successful conviction of more than 30 former Enron executives including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.[3][4]

In the wake of the Enron convictions, Caldwell turned to private practice as a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius where she worked until early 2014. On May 15, 2014 Leslie R. Caldwell was confirmed as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Meet the AAG". The United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Fried, Joseph P. "On-the-Job Training For a Prosecutor;Neighborhood Mobsters Learn She's No Longer a Novice". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Lattman, Peter; Protess, Ben. "Prosecutor in Enron Case Expected to Be Named to Justice Dept. Post". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Schoenberg, Tom; Farrell, Greg. "Enron Buster Is Back at Justice Taking Aim at Bankers Now". Bloomberg. Bloomberg News. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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