Vanessa Sisti

Fraud Prosecutorial Liaison to the United Kingdom at United States Department of Justice

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Vanessa Sisti is the United States Department of Justice’s Fraud Prosecutorial Liaison to the United Kingdom. In this role she is detailed to both the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) where she works to further develop and expand the close collaboration and cooperation between the SFO, FCA, and the US Department of Justice on complex cross-border fraud and corruption cases. Prior to her detail, she was an Assistant Chief in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Unit of the Fraud Section where she supervised and handled over fifty corporate and individual FCPA investigations. While in the FCPA Unit, she resolved corporate cases resulting in more than $4 billion in global monetary sanctions, and she secured charges against fourteen individuals, including nine guilty pleas, a $1.2 billion forfeiture award, and a trial conviction on FCPA charges. Previously, she served for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, where she prosecuted white collar crime, charged over 120 individuals, handled over twenty federal criminal trials, and argued twice before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Vanessa spent five years at Hogan Lovells. She also clerked for the Honorable Federico A. Moreno of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the Honorable Peter T. Fay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Vanessa graduated with honors from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Master of Accounting, and Juris Doctor, and she is a Certified Public Accountant. She also earned a Master of Science from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.