1. Brian Allen Benczkowski was born on October 5,1969 and is an American lawyer who served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.
13 Facts About Brian Benczkowski
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Brian Benczkowski attended the Washington University School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law.
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Early in his career, Brian Benczkowski served on the staff of former US Senator Pete Domenici and US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner.
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Brian Benczkowski was the Republican Staff Director for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where he advised Republican members of the committee on legislative, oversight, and nomination issues.
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Brian Benczkowski was a member of President Donald Trump's 2016 transition team, helping to manage the Justice Department transition.
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In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Brian Benczkowski to become Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division.
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At his confirmation hearing, Brian Benczkowski refused to recuse himself from dealing with the Mueller investigation, even though he supervised an internal investigation of a bank owned by two Russian oligarchs.
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Brian Benczkowski did agree to recuse himself from all matters related to the bank.
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Brian Benczkowski managed the Fraud, and Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Sections, the largest team of white collar prosecutors in the country.
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Brian Benczkowski was responsible for enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an antibribery law, and helped negotiate several FCPA settlements against multinational corporations, including the resolution with Ericsson AB that resulted in the telecommunications-equipment maker paying more than $1 billion in fines.
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Brian Benczkowski was responsible for the division's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program Guidance, the Department's Inability to Pay Guidance, revisions to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy, and the FCPA Unit's publication of declination letters online.
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On June 10,2020, Brian Benczkowski announced he would resign on July 3.
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On September 1,2020, Kirkland and Ellis announced that Brian Benczkowski had returned to the firm as a partner in its Washington, DC office.