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Glenn Leon

Oversight and enforcement

PPP · EIDL
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Person
Role
Oversight and enforcement
Programs
PPP, EIDL
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The profile

Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division's Fraud Section during the PPP prosecutions; later a partner at Jenner & Block.

In the archive

Identity and role

Glenn S. Leon served as Chief of the Fraud Section, DOJ Criminal Division (through 2025), running the section that carried the federal PPP/EIDL criminal docket and the COVID-19 fraud trial teams.

Biography / career arc

Federal prosecutor; Deputy Chief, Fraud Section (FCPA) earlier in his career; Hewlett Packard Enterprise chief ethics/compliance officer → returned as Fraud Section Chief → Jenner & Block (Jenner announcement and profile).

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

Fraud Section prosecutors, working with trial attorneys from the Criminal Division's separate Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, prosecuted Blueacorn's founders. The Fraud Section also prosecuted scores of other PPP defendants.

The Fraud Section was not the SBA program office and did not decide which lenders entered PPP; it was the Criminal Division unit that prosecuted large fraud cases after program failures had produced criminal exposure. In the Blueacorn case, Fraud Section trial attorneys prosecuted the founders, and DOJ's June 2025 conviction release describes a lender-service-provider scheme that processed tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent PPP loans. The Fraud Section sits in the Criminal Division under the Assistant Attorney General (see Kenneth Polite and Nicole Argentieri). Enforcement Director Kevin Chambers coordinated the multi-district strike forces that fed cases to the Fraud Section and to U.S. Attorneys offices. Michael Galdo was Deputy Director for COVID-19 Fraud and directed the strike-force teams.

Blueacorn founders Nathan Reis (guilty plea; sentence per his profile) and Stephanie Hockridge (convicted at trial; sentence per her profile) were prosecuted by Fraud Section and MLARS trial attorneys (DOJ release).

Where they are now (2025–2026)

At Jenner & Block (announcement of Jan. 15, 2026; profile).

Additional public-record notes

Lobbying & industry ties

No lobbying registrations. White-collar defense practice.

Documents on this site

Original source documents and archived copies

  • Philip Trout — DOJ Fraud Section supervisor on the Blueacorn prosecution, in the Section Leon led.

Sources

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