Brent Wible

Brent led many significant investigations and prosecutions at the DOJ. He also supervised numerous trials, prosecutions, and corporate enforcement matters in leading the DOJ's Criminal Division. This includes supervising the prosecution of Binance for Bank Secrecy Act, sanctions, and related offenses (United States v. Binance Holdings Ltd.), serving as a member of the trial team that convicted Roger Ng, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, for his role in a massive global bribery and money laundering scheme involving the theft of billions of dollars from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (United States v. Ng Chong Hwa, a/k/a "Roger Ng"), and leading the investigation and prosecution of Navinder Singh Sarao, a commodity trader based in the United Kingdom, for manipulating and spoofing the market for equity index futures contracts (United States v. Navinder Singh Sarao).

Additional representative matters include:

Corporate Enforcement:

• United States v. TD Bank, N.A. and TD Bank U.S. Holding Co. (D.N.J.): Supervised the prosecution of TD Bank for Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering offenses that resulted in guilty pleas by two TD Bank entities and the imposition of financial penalties totaling more than $1.8 billion.*
• United States v. Danske Bank A/S (S.D.N.Y.): Supervised the prosecution of Danske Bank arising from its misrepresentations to U.S. correspondent banks regarding the state of its anti-money laundering compliance program and the nature of the business conducted through its Estonian branch that resulted in a guilty plea and the forfeiture of approximately $2 billion.*
• United States v. Glencore International A.G. (S.D.N.Y.): Supervised the prosecution of global trading company Glencore International A.G. arising from its activities in Africa and South America that resulted in a guilty plea, a criminal penalty of over $700 million, and the imposition of an independent compliance monitor.*

Criminal Investigations and Trials

• United States v. John Can Unsalan et al. (M.D. Fla.): Supervised the prosecution of the president of a company and his business partner who paid a sanctioned oligarch over $150 million in return for steelmaking materials. The case was prosecuted as part of Task Force KleptoCapture.*
• United States v. Michael Curtler (S.D.N.Y.): Member of the prosecution team that investigated Michael Curtler, a former senior trader at a global financial institution in London, for manipulating LIBOR to benefit traders' positions in interest-rate swap contracts. Obtained a guilty plea to a wire fraud conspiracy charge.*
• United States v. Hiram Monserrate (S.D.N.Y.): Lead prosecutor in the successful investigation and prosecution of Hiram Monserrate, a former member of the New York State Senate and the New York City Council, for directing government money to a non-profit organization and then misappropriating those funds to his State Senate campaign. Obtained a guilty plea to a charge of mail fraud.*
• United States v. Miguel Martinez (S.D.N.Y.): Member of the prosecution team that successfully investigated and prosecuted Miguel Martinez, who was then a member of the New York City Council, for directing government money to non-profit organizations that paid him kickbacks and using an office expense account to pay a consulting firm that kicked funds back to him. Obtained a guilty plea to a charge of wire fraud.*

Criminal Appeals

• United States v. Doug Whitman (2d Cir.): Successfully defended on appeal the conviction of Doug Whitman, a hedge fund manager, for participating in an insider-trading scheme by obtaining material, non-public information about publicly traded technology companies.*
• United States v. James Fleishman (2d Cir.): Successfully defended on appeal the conviction of James Fleishman, a sales manager at an expert-networking firm, for participating in an insider-trading scheme in which he arranged for employees of public companies acting as consultants to his firm to provide material, non-public information about their companies to his clients.*
• United States v. Michael Nouri (2d Cir.): Successfully defended on appeal the conviction of Michael Nouri, the former Chief Executive Officer and President of Smart Online, and his brother for manipulating the company's stock by bribing stockbrokers to solicit their customers to purchase shares.*
• United States v. Mario "Sammy" Levis (2d Cir.): Successfully defended on appeal the conviction of Mario "Sammy" Levis, the Senior Executive Vice President of Doral Financial Corporation, on charges stemming from a scheme to defraud investors and potential investors in the bank's stock.*
• United States v. Sanjaya Bahel (2d Cir.): Successfully defended on appeal the conviction of Sanjaya Bahel, a United Nations procurement officer, for accepting bribe payments in return for awarding United Nations contracts to a private company.*

* Prior to joining White & Case