Former DOJ Criminal Division Head Joins Sidley as Co-Lead of White Collar Practice
Kenneth Polite, former assistant attorney general for DOJ's Criminal Division, will join Sidley on Oct. 1 as a partner and co-leader of its white collar government litigation and investigations practice. Polite's practice will center on "white collar criminal defense, investigation,…
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and compliance matters," Sidley said. For the past two years, Polite has been working in his Senate-confirmed position at DOJ, leading a team of over 1,400 attorneys and staff responsible for carrying out criminal investigations of securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering offenses and public corruption, the firm said. Polite previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.