Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh has been appointed to serve as co-chair of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s white collar/fraud subcommittee.
The subcommittee is part of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee which advises Holder on a variety of critical Justice Department issues.
Walsh recently concluded a two-year appointment to that committee. He has a career-long history of prosecuting white collar criminals.
In Colorado, while Walsh has been U.S. Attorney, white-collar crime prosecutions have included those of Philip Lochmiller Jr. and Sr.; Mark Yost; Michael VanGilder; Gerald Rising and James Burg.
Walsh also serves as one of five national co-chairs of the Attorney General’s Residential Mortgage-Backed Security Fraud Working Group.
The group’s focus is on initiating, organizing, and advancing new and existing investigations by federal and state authorities into fraud and abuse in the residential mortgage-backed securities market that helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.
Walsh said it was an honor to be appointed co-chair of the white collar subcommittee.
“Since first becoming an assistant U.S. Attorney in the 1980s, prosecution of white collar offenses has been a focus and passion of mine, reflected in the many cases I’ve worked both while as assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles as well as serving as U.S. Attorney here in Colorado,” Walsh said in a news release.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939, hpankratz@denverpost.com or
