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TRM Talks: Unpacking DOJ's New Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

Oct 27, 2020 - 39min

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TRM Talks: Unpacking DOJ's New Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

With Sujit Raman,  and Jessie K. Liu,  and Greg Monahan, CPA and

This month, the US Department of Justice published an 83-page Enforcement Framework.  The Report gives a detailed look at legitimate uses of cryptocurrencies, the risks of illicit activity, and federal enforcement challenges and strategies.

In this TRM Talk with the Chair of the Crypto Enforcement Framework Task Force and former Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman, Jessie K. Liu, former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Supervisory Special Agent Greg Monahan, Cyber Crimes Unit, IRS-Criminal Investigation, we discuss DOJ's new cryptocurrency enforcement framework, the ways in which the interagency focuses on cryptocurrency and how the interagency works in close coordination in the cryptocurrency space as highlighted by a number of recent investigations and enforcement actions.

About the guests

Sujit Raman
TRM Labs

Sujit Raman is Chief Legal Officer at TRM and leads the company's global legal operations. Prior to joining TRM in 2022, Sujit was a partner at the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP, where he advised clients on a myriad of high-stakes issues including government investigations, cyber/data protection, and multibillion-dollar transactional matters. Sujit previously spent nearly twelve years as a U.S. federal prosecutor, culminating in his service as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General. In this role, Sujit personally advised the U.S. Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in their oversight of the nation’s cyber-related criminal and national security investigations and prosecutions. He also chaired the task force that formulated the U.S. Department of Justice's Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework, which remains federal law enforcement's strategy blueprint for enforcement in the digital assets space. Sujit also led DOJ’s policy formulation in several critical areas, including cybersecurity, cross-border data transfers and protection, and emerging technologies such as facial recognition and encryption. Sujit brings a wealth of expertise in data privacy, national security, cybercrime prevention and cryptocurrency.

Jessie K. Liu
Skadden

Jessie K. Liu, is a partner at Skadden and the former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.  As United States Attorney, Ms. Liu headed up the largest U.S. Attorney's Office in the nation and, among other things, created a Threat Finance Unit that focused on cases involving terrorist financing, cybercrime, money laundering and cryptocurrency.  This unit was responsible for prosecuting critical national security cases involving cryptocurrency including Welcome to Video, Dark Scandals, Helix, North Korea, Hamas/Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Greg Monahan, CPA
IRS Criminal Investigation

Greg Monahan, Supervisory Special Agent, Cyber Crimes Unit (CCU), IRS Criminal Investigation, has worked for the US Government for over 25 years, most of which, with IRS-Criminal Investigation. Over the last 4½ years, he has been leading the Washington DC Field Office’s CCU Cyber Crimes Unit which has investigated many of the most significant, high profile cyber investigations, which include the recent Twitter hack, the global disruption and dismantling of three terrorist financing cyber-enabled campaigns involving al-Qassam Brigades, al-Qaeda and ISIS, the North Korean-related Exchange Hack of $250 million, Welcome to Video and BTC-e to name a few.

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