DOJ Criminal Chief to Exit for Return to Private Practice
- Ex-Morgan Lewis partner led Criminal Division since 2021
- Steered efforts on white-collar crime, compliance, crypto
Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.
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The leader of the US Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Kenneth Polite, will leave the agency for a job at a law firm after spending the past two years focusing on efforts to combat corporate misconduct and violent crime.
Polite led the division’s efforts to combat human smuggling, international criminal networks and pursue accountability for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, the DOJ said in a statement Monday. A former white-collar defense attorney and corporate compliance executive, he will depart by the end of July.