The former executive director of Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, Michael Bresnick, is joining Venable.

Michael will chair Venable's financial services investigations and enforcement practice. He headed the President's task force on financial fraud enforcement from 2011-13, working with more than 10 government agencies on driving enforcement initiatives and setting priorities for fraud prosecutors. He launched the Task Force's Consumer Protection Working Group. Previously, Michael spent a decade in the DOJ, including as assistant chief in the fraud section. (Before joining Venable, he chaired Stein Mitchell's financial institutions practice.) In Venable's financial regulatory group, Michael joins the former FDIC assistant GC Ronald Glancz, Treasury acting GC Ed Wilson, and OCC director of enforcement and compliance Ralph Sharpe.