NEW YORK (Reuters) – A top U.S. Justice Department official and longtime prosecutor focused on stamping out white-collar crime will resign on Monday, the latest in a series of departures at the DOJ ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s fraud and appeals division, told Reuters that Friday will be her last day at the department. She started at the Chief Justice in 2014 as a healthcare fraud attorney.
Miller declined to comment on his next steps.
While at the DOJ, Miller became the first woman to lead the DOJ’s market integrity unit at a time when the team began to use data more creatively to spot market misconduct.
Those efforts led to cases against traders who rigged commodity markets, corporate executives who used corporate trading plans to illegally trade on non-public information, and the indictment of a high-profile short seller on charges of market manipulation.
In her most recent role, Miller helped draft new rules to recover compensation from executives implicated in misconduct and create the DOJ’s new whistleblower program.
