Jennifer Shasky Calvery
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = 7th Director of the United States Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
| predecessor = James Freis
| term_start = September 2012
| term_end = May 2016
| occupation = Attorney
| education = George Washington University (BA), University of Arizona College of Law (JD)
| president = Barack Obama
}}
{{Short description|American attorney}}
Jennifer Shasky Calvery is an American attorney. She is the global head of financial crime threat mitigation for HSBC.[https://www.ft.com/content/b9d7daa6-3983-11e8-8b98-2f31af407cc8 "HSBC brings in AI to help spot money laundering"] Martin Arnold, Financial Times, April 8, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 20222. She served as director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from September 2012 to May 2016.
Education
Calvery holds a JD from the University of Arizona College of Law. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in international affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where she was also an All-American basketball player.[https://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/pdf/bio_director.pdf Govt. Bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513032113/https://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/pdf/bio_director.pdf |date=2016-05-13 }}
Career
Working to prosecute money-laundering and related crimes, she spent 15 years at the U.S. Department of Justice, including as an Organized Crime and Racketeering Section prosecutor, and two years as senior counsel with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, through two federal administrations.
She was director of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from September 22, 2012, until May 27, 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1687.aspx |title=Jennifer Shasky Calvery Named as Director of The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |website=Treasury.gov |date= |accessdate=2016-05-11}}{{cite web|last=Louise |first=Rachel |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/financial-crimes-enforcement-network-director-calvery-to-depart-1461693902 |title=Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Calvery to Depart |publisher=WSJ |date=2016-04-26 |accessdate=2016-05-11}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/pdf/bio_director.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 11, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513032113/https://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/pdf/bio_director.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2016 }}{{cite web|last=Wolf |first=Brett |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-moneylaundering-hsbc-idUSKCN0XN2W7 |title=U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources |publisher=Reuters |date=2016-04-26 |accessdate=2016-05-11}}
During her tenure at FinCEN, while representing the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the Department of Justice, had been "considering seeking a guilty plea from HSBC" as early as September 2012.
On April 16, 2016, she announced she would be leaving the position effective on May 27, 2016,{{cite web |title=Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Calvery to Depart |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=26 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331025541/https://www.wsj.com/articles/financial-crimes-enforcement-network-director-calvery-to-depart-1461693902 |archive-date=2023-03-31 |url-status=live |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/financial-crimes-enforcement-network-director-calvery-to-depart-1461693902 |last1=Ensign |first1=Rachel Louise }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.fincen.gov/news_room/speech/html/20160426.html |title=Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery Departing the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |access-date=2016-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512151638/https://www.fincen.gov/news_room/speech/html/20160426.html |archive-date=2016-05-12 |url-status=dead }} to join banking group HSBC.[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-moneylaundering-hsbc-idUSKCN0XN2W7 U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources]
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|72980}}
- [https://www.hsbc.com/insight/topics/technology-targets-financial-crime HSBC article ]
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Category:American women civil servants
Category:Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
Category:James E. Rogers College of Law alumni
Category:United States Department of the Treasury officials
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)