Biography
Matt Baughman is Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chair of the Department’s Corporate Enforcement and Accountability Working Group. He is also the Director of the President’s Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud. In that capacity, he is responsible for assisting the Task Force in providing guidance for the investigation and prosecution of cases involving fraud on the government, the financial markets, consumers, cyber-fraud, digital currency fraud, money laundering, health care fraud, tax fraud, and other financial crimes. Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Baughman was a partner in the Government Investigations practice of an international law firm for more than 10 years. He was also an Enforcement Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Baughman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and clerked for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.