With the Trump administration’s push to aggressively pursue immigration-related crimes, career prosecutors in the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section are worried about attention being shifted away from their work.
Bracewell’s Seth DuCharme, who served as the top-ranking career prosecutor in the DOJ under Trump’s first administration, told Law360 that if white-collar-focused prosecutors “see the wind blowing another direction, it can be harder to do the job.”
DuCharme added that quasi-regulatory enforcement actions, such as charges brought under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and public integrity cases, “where the line between normal politics and corruption is not always clear,” are examples of the types of cases likely to fall out of favor.
