Pandemic Darlings · Oversight careers
Where Pandemic-Oversight Lawyers Went Next
Seventeen moves by congressional, Justice Department and FTC lawyers and inspectors general who worked on pandemic-relief oversight or enforcement, and where public records show them later. Color shows the kind of destination.
Law-firm investigations or defense practice
Lobbying
Industry / advisory
Oversight or other public service
To law-firm investigations practices
Jenner & Block, Kirkland & Ellis, Morrison & Foerster and Arnold & Porter each market a congressional-investigations practice; Latham & Watkins and King & Spalding took two former Justice Department officials into investigations practices.
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Morrison & Foerster
via DOJ Asst. Attorney General · co-chairs Congressional Investigations practice
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Latham & Watkins
White-collar defense & investigations partner
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Kirkland & Ellis
congressional-investigations partner
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Jenner & Block
via GC to Scalise & Speaker Johnson · co-chairs Congressional Investigations
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Arnold & Porter
via Deputy Counsel to the President · Congressional Oversight & Investigations team
DOJ — Criminal Division Fraud Section Chief
led the section that carried the PPP/EIDL criminal docket
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Jenner & Block
partner (2025)
U.S. Attorney (D.N.J.) · led DOJ’s COVID-19 Hoarding and Price Gouging Task Force
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King & Spalding
Special Matters & Govt Investigations
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Jenner & Block
partner (via IMF)
To K Street
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theGROUP DC
registered lobbyist — clients incl. Coinbase
Into industry
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Capitol Peak Strategies
advises regulated fintech & crypto (AML/sanctions)
Oversight or other public service
Select Subcommittee — Chief Investigative Counsel
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Senate PSI — Staff Director
since February 2023
Select Subcommittee — Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel (2020)
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White House Counsel's Office
Deputy Counsel to the President (Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2025)
SBA Inspector General (confirmed 2018)
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Removed as Inspector General (January 2025)
one of the inspectors general removed that month
signed the 2024 FTC v. Womply complaint
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At the FTC, as of the 2024 complaint
career staff — no later move recorded
Of the seventeen moves on this board, eight went to law-firm investigations or defense practices, one to lobbying, three to industry or advisory work, and five to oversight or other public service. This is a hand-built roster of named people, not a survey of everyone who worked the pandemic-relief files, so it shows where these seventeen went and not a rate.
Sourcing: every career move is from public records — committee, Justice Department and FTC records, law-firm announcements, LegiStorm and federal lobbying disclosures — and each name above opens its sourced profile. Several of these lawyers had left the Select Subcommittee before its December 2022 staff reports.
In the archive: Profiles · Carlos Uriarte · Glenn Leon · Hannibal Ware — FTC v. Womply · All interactives
In the archive: Profiles · Carlos Uriarte · Glenn Leon · Hannibal Ware — FTC v. Womply · All interactives