Cody Matthew Herche

Cody Matthew Herche is the Acting Chief of the Global Trade & Commerce Enforcement Section, which investigates and prosecutes criminal trade and other fraud offenses that undermine American industries, evade external revenue collection, threaten consumers’ health and safety, finance foreign adversaries, promote forced labor through illegal trade practices, and violate United States laws governing domestic and foreign commerce. He also serves as Head of the Trade Fraud Task Force, a joint initiative with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security combating customs fraud, and the Department’s Principal on the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, an interagency body that monitors and enforces the prohibition on importing goods made with forced labor. Cody joined the Fraud Division in April 2026.

Prior to joining the Fraud Division, Cody served as Senior Counsel in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General, where he led the Department’s trade fraud enforcement strategy and helped manage the Criminal Division’s fraud portfolio. Cody previously served in the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement and as a Trial Attorney in the Department’s former Consumer Protection Branch, investigating and prosecuting criminal health and safety violations, consumer fraud schemes, and money laundering offenses.

Before entering public service, Cody practiced at a litigation firm in Washington, D.C. He clerked for the Honorable Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Cody received his law degree from Cornell Law School and undergraduate degree from the University of the Pacific.