Mr Jacob Foster

Deputy Assistant Attorney General at U.S. Department of Justice, Member, Attorney General's Super Intelligence Task Force

Speaker

Jacob Foster is Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Fraud Division, where he supervises over 100 white collar prosecutors across the country in cases that involve the health care and industry and financial integrity. Jacob also helps develop the Division’s corporate enforcement policies and whistleblower policies, and supervises the investigation of its corporate fraud matters. Jacob previously was the Chief of the Health Care Fraud Section, its Principal Deputy Chief, Assistant Chief of the National Rapid Response Strike Force and Newark Strike Forces, and a Trial Attorney in the Detroit Strike Force. In those roles, Jacob served as a first chair trial attorney in eight trials in four judicial districts, including leading some of the largest and most significant fraud cases brought by the Department. Jacob helped revolutionize the use of data analytics to prosecute health care fraud and led the expansion of the Health Care Fraud Strike Force program by creating the National Rapid Response Strike Force, West Coast Strike Force, and Boston location of the New England Strike Force. Jacob is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and Northwestern University, and served as a law clerk on the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa.