The United States Department of Justice (DOJ),also known as the Justice Department,is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general,who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland,who has served since March 2021.
Alice Stevens Fisher is an American lawyer and partner at the Washington,D.C. office of Latham &Watkins LLP. Fisher served as Deputy United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division from 2001 to 2003 and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice Criminal Division for three years,from 2005 to May 23,2008.
The Corporate Fraud Task Force was a United States Federal Government-wide task force formed by President George W. Bush in the wake of corporate accounting scandals that shook investor confidence. Task Force establishment occurred through delegated legislation with the issuance of Executive Order 13271 of July 9,2002,‘‘Establishment of the Corporate Fraud Task Force’’.
The United States Department of Justice Criminal Division is a federal agency of the United States Department of Justice that develops,enforces,and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and implement criminal enforcement policy. Division attorneys also provide advice and guidance to the Attorney General of the United States,the United States Congress,and the White House on matters of criminal law. The Division was founded in 1919.
The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) is a federal drug enforcement program in the United States,overseen by the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify,disrupt,and dismantle the major drug trafficking operations and tackle related crimes,such as money laundering,tax and weapon violations,and violent crime,and prosecute those primarily responsible for the nation's drug supply.
William Pelham Barr is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice that enforces U.S. antitrust law. It has exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. federal criminal antitrust investigations and prosecutions. It also has jurisdiction over civil antitrust enforcement,which it shares with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Antitrust Division often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses.
The California Department of Justice is a statewide Investigative Law Enforcement Agency and Legal Department of the California Executive Branch under the elected leadership of the California Attorney General (AG) which carries out complex criminal and civil investigations,prosecutions,and other legal services throughout the US State of California. The department is equivalent to the State Bureau of Investigation in other states.
Matthew Glen Olsen is an American attorney who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division since 2021. He is the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Vanita Gupta is an American attorney who served as United States Associate Attorney General from April 22,2021,to February 2,2024. From 2014 to 2017,Gupta served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama.
Kathryn "Kathy" Ruemmler is an attorney who formerly served as Principal Deputy White House Counsel and then White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. Previously a partner at Latham and Watkins co-chairing its white-collar defense group,Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 as a Partner and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs. In 2021,she was promoted to Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th and current United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Leslie Ragon Caldwell is an American attorney,who served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2014 to 2017. She has spent the majority of her professional career handling federal criminal cases,as both a prosecutor and as defense attorney. 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. In September 2017,she became a partner at the law firm of Latham &Watkins,in San Francisco,CA. In late 2022,Caldwell retired from her partnership at Latham &Watkins.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020,he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Division. In 2020 and 2021,Clark allegedly helped then-president Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Clark's actions in that endeavor were reviewed by the District of Columbia Bar –the entity authorized by law to pursue attorney discipline and disbarment in the District of Columbia –which recommended discipline to the DC Court of Appeals in July 2022. He was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. On August 14,2023,he was indicted along with 18 other people in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia.
The Cole Memorandum was a United States Department of Justice memorandum issued August 29,2013,by United States Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole during the presidency of Barack Obama. The memorandum,sent to all United States Attorneys,governed federal prosecution of offenses related to marijuana. The memo stated that given its limited resources,the Justice Department would not enforce federal marijuana prohibition in states that "enacted laws legalizing marijuana in some form and ... implemented strong and effective regulatory and enforcement systems to control the cultivation,distribution,sale,and possession of marijuana," except where a lack of federal enforcement would undermine federal priorities.
Associate deputy attorney general is a position in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice. The number of positions varies widely depending on the staffing discretion of the deputy attorney general,but in 2017,there were five such positions,all of whom served as advisors to the deputy attorney general. There is also a separate principal associate deputy attorney general,who is the principal advisor to the deputy attorney general,and to whom all associate deputy attorneys general report. The associate deputy attorney general positions are filled by Senior Executive Service (SES) career attorneys,by SES political appointees,or by non-SES career attorneys serving on detail assignments from elsewhere in the department.
Michael Rafi Sherwin is an attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2020 to 2021. He was appointed by Attorney General William Barr during the Trump administration. He is partner at the law firm Kobre &Kim where he handles international government investigations.
Task Force KleptoCapture is a United States Department of Justice unit established in March 2022 with the goal of enforcing sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
