Kevin Chambers

Kevin Andrew Chambers is an American attorney and former certified public accountant serving as an associate deputy attorney general in the Biden administration. In March 2022, he was appointed to serve as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement in the United States Department of Justice.

Kevin Chambers
Chambers Official DOJ Photo
Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement
Assumed office
March 2022
Appointed byMerrick Garland
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byPosition created
Associate Deputy Attorney General
Assumed office
February 2021
Serving with John P. Carlin, David Newman, Emily Loeb
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byMulti-member position
Personal details
Born
Kevin Andrew Chambers
EducationUniversity at Albany, SUNY (BS)
Yale University (JD)

Education

Chambers earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, and a Bachelor of Arts in English, from the University at Albany, SUNY in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2004.[1]

Career

From 1997 to 2000, Chambers worked as an auditor at Ernst & Young. After law school, he worked as an associate at WilmerHale from 2004 to 2006. Before joining the DOJ, Chambers was a partner at Latham & Watkins where he earned over $3 million during 2020 according to his financial disclosure form. [2] As Associate Deputy Attorney General, he managed the Criminal Division portfolio and advised the Deputy Attorney General on the Department's corporate criminal enforcement policy and related prosecutions. [3] Earlier in his legal career, he served in the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he worked on the prosecution of musician Chris Brown.[4]

In March 2022, following President Biden's announcement of a chief prosecutor during his State of the Union Address, Chambers was selected to serve as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement.[5][6] In the role, Chambers will manage the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, a multi-agency task force that will include officials from the DOJ, United States Department of Labor, United States Department of the Treasury, United States Department of Homeland Security, Small Business Administration, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, and others.[7][8][9]

References
  1. "Kevin Andrew Chambers – Latham & Watkins LLP". Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  2. Barber, C. Ryan. "Top Justice Department official Kevin Chambers will lead a COVID fraud crackdown".
  3. Monaco, Lisa O. "Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Delivers Remarks at COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force Roundtable".
  4. Barber, C. Ryan. "Top Justice Department official Kevin Chambers will lead a COVID fraud crackdown".
  5. Ward, Myah. "DOJ names chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud task force". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  6. Ngo, Madeleine (2022-03-10). "Justice Dept. names director to pursue cases of Covid-19 relief fraud". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  7. "Justice Department Announces Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement". www.justice.gov. 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  8. "Attorney General Announces Task Force to Combat COVID-19 Fraud". www.justice.gov. 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  9. "New Covid fraud prosecutor steps up effort to convict people who stole billions in relief benefits". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
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