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Public Trust & Financial Integrity Section

About the Section

Financial Integrity Section Overview

The Fraud Division’s Public Trust & Financial Integrity Section prosecutes the most complex schemes to defraud the United States and its taxpayers. The Section targets companies, organizations, and individuals—foreign and domestic—that abuse the trust placed in federal programs, bilk taxpayer dollars, defraud American investors and consumers, and exploit U.S. financial markets. The Section’s attorneys routinely lead some of the Department’s most impactful financial fraud trials in district courts across the United States.

Working in parallel with regulatory partners and domestic and international law-enforcement agencies, the Section prosecutes a broad array of complex fraud schemes, including:

  • Fraud against federal government programs, including large-scale schemes targeting federal benefits, grants, and relief funds;
  • Procurement and government contracting fraud, including schemes involving defective pricing, false billing, bribery, kickbacks, and self-dealing;
  • Securities fraud, including fraud by public companies and their executives, market-manipulation schemes, corporate accounting fraud, insider trading, and large-scale investment frauds relating to government programs or contracts; schemes to defraud the United States; foreign investment schemes targeting the federal government; schemes targeting U.S. service members; and schemes involving health care fraud, tax fraud, or trade fraud;
  • Large-scale financial fraud schemes, including in connection with a wide range of federal government programs and complex mortgage fraud schemes; and
  • Consumer fraud schemes, including scams relating to government programs or contracts, consumer products, service members, and schemes to defraud the United States.

Leadership

Official photo of Jacob Foster

Jacob N. Foster
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Health Care and Public Trust & Financial Integrity

Lucy Jennings
Acting Section Chief for Public Trust & Financial Integrity

The Section’s prosecutors have expansive geographic and subject matter reach to investigate and prosecute a wide variety of sophisticated financial fraud schemes that affect the federal government.  Attorneys assigned to the Section work alongside of U.S. Attorneys’ offices around the country and coordinate with regulatory partners and with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies.

Using advanced data analytic tools, including from the Fraud Division’s National Fraud Detection Center, Section attorneys build investigations from the ground up: working directly with federal agents and forensic accountants, presenting evidence to grand juries, litigating dispositive motions, and trying some of the most significant white-collar prosecutions in federal district courts.

As the nature of sophisticated fraud schemes constantly evolves, the Section continuously adapts to focus its priorities on the largest and most impactful cases involving the worst offenders, seeking to recover losses for the victims harmed in these schemes, including a variety of government agencies, as well as U.S. investors and consumers.