Thursday, February 16, 2023
USC Gould School of Law Faculty Lounge (Room 433)
2:30pm - 5:30pm
665 West Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Thursday, February 16, 2023
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | Doors Open and Registration |
| 2:30 - 2:35 PM | Welcome Remarks: | |
Brian Peck |
| 2:35 - 3:10 PM | Keynote Speaker: | |
Lisa Miller |
| 3:10 - 3:15 PM | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:15 PM | Corporate Enforcement and Compliance | |
Moderator: Panelists:
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| 4:15 - 4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:20 - 5:20 PM | Procurement Collusion and Fraud | |
Moderator: Panelists:
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| 5:20 - 5:30 PM | Break |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM | Reception |
Lisa Miller
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Fraud and Appellate Sections
Criminal Division
United States Department of Justice
Lisa H. Miller serves as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) for the Department of Justice's Criminal Division with responsibility for overseeing the more than 200 prosecutors working in the Fraud Section and the Appellate Section. She also advises the Assistant Attorney General on white-collar and corporate criminal prosecutions and policy issues.
Prior to her current appointment, Lisa served as the Chief of the Market Integrity & Major Frauds Unit within the Fraud Section, supervising 45 white-collar prosecutors as they conducted investigations and prosecutions of varied financial fraud matters across the country, from commodities fraud and spoofing to securities fraud. She also previously served as the Principal Assistant Chief of the Fraud Section's Health Care Fraud Unit; as a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section; and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. She has tried more than a dozen federal criminal jury trials and argued and briefed cases before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Lisa is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Cornell University. Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Lisa clerked for a U.S. District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York and worked as a litigation associate in New York.
Eileen Decker
Lecturer in Law
USC Gould School of Law
Eileen M. Decker serves on the Los Angeles Police Commission and is currently its Vice President after completing the maximum two-year term as President; a Fulbright Specialist in Cybersecurity Law & Policy; and an Adjunct Professor in Cybersecurity and Information Privacy at USC Gould School of Law. She has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security since 2019.
Until March 2017, Eileen served as the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California where she served on five Attorney General Advisory Committees including Cyber/Intellectual Property and Terrorism/National Security. As U.S. Attorney, she led the federal investigation and response into the San Bernardino terrorist attack (including the Apple iPhone case), and cyber attacks on businesses within the district (including the hack of SONY Pictures).
Eileen was the L.A. Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for nearly six years - the only Deputy Mayor to serve both former Mayor Villaraigosa and former Mayor Garcetti - and was responsible for matters related to the LAPD, the LAFD, and the Emergency Management Department. As Deputy Mayor, she was named to the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Airport Security (2010-11), was named to the Mayor's Delegation to Sendai, Japan to evaluate the response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, coordinated the efforts to retrofit LA's buildings and prepared the City's earthquake plan (the 2015 Resilience by Design plan), and developed the City's cybersecurity plan (to include development of the LA Cyber Intrusion Command Center). Prior to being Deputy Mayor, she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) for almost 15 years, becoming the first Chief of the National Security Section (responsible for all counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases). Prior to becoming an AUSA, she worked in private practice and served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor.
Eileen received her undergraduate and law degrees from New York University, a master's degree in Homeland Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, and was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School. Eileen has provided commentary and legal analysis in The Hill, Lawfare, and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
Emma M. Burnham
Acting Director of Criminal Enforcement
Antitrust Division
United States Department of Justice
Emma is the Acting Director of Criminal Enforcement at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She has been a criminal prosecutor at the Antitrust Division since 2014, having served as Acting Chief, Assistant Chief, and Trial Attorney in the Washington Criminal I Section, and as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in 2017-18. Before joining the Division, she worked as a white-collar criminal defense associate at law firms in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Gettleman in the Northern District of Illinois. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and Georgetown University.
Katy Choo
Group VP and Chief Counsel
Global Investigations
General Electric
Katy Choo is Vice President & Chief Counsel, Global Investigations at GE, specializing in government and internal investigations in complex criminal and regulatory matters, compliance initiatives of the Company, and preventive law. Ms. Choo also is a member of GE's Policy Compliance Review Board (PCRB), which oversees the Company's strategic imperatives with respect to compliance. Ms. Choo also has primary responsibility for counseling GE's businesses with respect to anti corruption efforts globally relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti bribery laws and serves as primary compliance counsel to GE's mergers and acquisitions transactions team. Ms. Choo has been the recipient of numerous awards at GE, including GE's Chairman's Award, the Company's highest form of recognition.
Ms. Choo joined GE after serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she was Chief of the General Crimes Unit and a Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division. As a federal prosecutor, she specialized in prosecutions of white-collar offenses and twice was a recipient of the U.S. Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance and a recipient of the Federal Law Enforcement Officer Association's Group Achievement Award. During her tenure in government, Ms. Choo tried numerous federal criminal trials to verdict and argued numerous appeals in the Second Circuit. Prior to her work as a federal prosecutor, she worked as an associate specializing in complex civil litigation at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Ms. Choo is a graduate of Wellesley College (Durant Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa) and Columbia School of Law (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
Matt Miner
Executive Vice President and Global Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Walmart
Matt Miner is Walmart's executive vice president and global chief ethics and compliance officer. He oversees the company's multi-disciplinary ethics and compliance program and team.
Before joining Walmart, Matt led the white-collar litigation and government investigation practice for Morgan Lewis in Washington, D.C., where he focused on matters facing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Congress. Matt has significant experience in government and private practice, and in managing investigations involving alleged corporate misconduct, including matters related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Matt also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, where he developed and implemented the Justice Department's groundbreaking 2019 Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance, as well as first-of-its-kind training to educate prosecutors on compliance program design and key compliance challenges.
Before being appointed to the Justice Department, Matt was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and at White & Case LLP. He has also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama and on the staff of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Cincinnati and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Alison L. Anderson
Partner
Boies Schiller Flexner
Joining BSF Los Angeles office in 2021, Alison advises clients facing government investigations and complex civil litigation. Alison is a seasoned trial lawyer with significant experience litigating complex criminal fraud trials and handling large government investigations. Her work as a federal prosecutor included investigating and litigating numerous, large corporate frauds, including taking seven cases to jury trials. She also supervised criminal corporate resolutions, evaluated corporate compliance programs, and engaged with ongoing corporate monitorships. Alison worked in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, first as a trial attorney in the Securities and Financial Fraud Unit and most recently as Assistant Deputy Chief in the Strategy, Policy, and Training Unit. As a trial attorney, she conducted high-profile investigations of Fortune 500 companies like Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen, securing resolutions that levied significant fines and established compliance monitorships. Alison's work in this area required close coordination with numerous state, federal, and international regulators, giving her deep knowledge of the multifaceted challenges companies may face from government agencies and civil litigants in an investigation. Alison's trial experience included co-leading the team in the high-profile United States v. Connolly matter, which has influenced the way corporate clients approach cooperation with government investigations and the way defense counsel are litigating these issues on behalf of individual clients. As an Assistant Deputy Chief, Alison oversaw the agency's recent criminal corporate resolutions with The Boeing Company, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of Nova Scotia, United Airlines, Inc., and others.
Daniel Glad
Director, Procurement Collusion Strike Force
United States Department of Justice
Daniel Glad is the Director of the U.S. Department of Justice's Procurement Collusion Strike Force. As a Senior Executive and Director, Mr. Glad oversees a nationwide, interagency partnership consisting of more than 500 prosecutors and special agents in 22 cities, including the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, U.S. Attorney's Offices, the FBI, and several federal Offices of Inspector General. The PCSF focuses on combatting antitrust crimes, like bid rigging, and other federal offenses that undermine competition in government procurement, grant, and program funding at all levels, federal, state and local.
Previously, Mr. Glad was an assistant chief and a line prosecutor in the Antitrust Division's Chicago office, where he investigated and prosecuted international and domestic cartels, criminal conspiracies that target public agencies, bid rigging, price fixing, bribery, and other related federal crimes. Mr. Glad also worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he investigated and prosecuted of variety of federal offenses, including complex fraud schemes, bank robbery, embezzlement, money laundering, child exploitation, narcotics and firearms offenses, and violent crimes. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Glad was an Assistant Inspector General in the Office of Inspector General for the City of Chicago. Mr. Glad began his career in private practice in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices of a large, international law firm. Mr. Glad is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Patrick Klein
Assistant Director, Fraud Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch
Civil Division
United States Department of Justice
Patrick Klein is an Assistant Director for the Fraud section of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Department of Justice, Civil Division. Patrick has been with the Fraud section for over 15 years and conducts investigations and brings civil actions under the False Claims Act, primarily for government procurement involving the General Services Administration and Department of Defense. Patrick has tried FCA cases in Arizona and the District of Columbia.
Michael P. McCarthy
Trial Attorney, Fraud Section
Criminal Division
United States Department of Justice
Michael P. McCarthy graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (night program) in 2013. Prior to attending law school, Mr. McCarthy was an active-duty officer in the U.S. Navy. He was stationed at Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Maryland and NIOC Misawa (located on Misawa Air Force Base, Japan). Mr. McCarthy led teams of sailors on tactical intelligence collection missions on ships, submarines, and naval aircraft, and directed all Navy Special Warfare signals intelligence operations in western-Iraq as the Targeting Officer for Special Operations Task Force West.
After completing law school in 2013, Mr. McCarthy joined Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, D.C. In 2015, he joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division. In 2018, he joined the Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, as a Trial Attorney. He currently specializes in complex economic investigations and prosecutions. He has litigated cases in federal districts across the United States. Mr. McCarthy has tried 16 criminal jury trials and dozens of bench trials. He has represented the United States in dozens of hearings before federal district and magistrate judges, and has presented hundreds of witnesses to grand juries. Notable cases include the successful criminal prosecution of Balfour Beatty Communities LLC, the largest provider of privatized housing to the U.S. Department of Defense, which resulted in a corporate guilty plea and fines totaling approximately $66 million, and the successful prosecution of the largest ever Department of Veterans' Affairs education benefits fraud case.
The USC Gould School of Law's Center for Transnational Law & Business is pleased to invite you to join us at the upcoming 2nd Annual Symposium on White Collar Corporate Enforcement and Individual Accountability: Compliance Matters
RSVP is required by Friday, February 10, 2023
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