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NEW U.S. ATTORNEY EYES TOUGHER ENFORCEMENT IN SILICON VALLEY

By
Matt Drange
 |  March 25, 2019 11:47 AM PDT
Photo: New U.S. Attorney David Anderson is sworn in in January. Photo: San
Francisco U.S. Attorney’s Office


The message to a roomful of corporate attorneys representing a who’s who of tech
companies was clear: The once-sleepy U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco has
awoken.

New U.S. Attorney David Anderson, who recently took over the office responsible
for federal criminal prosecutions in the Bay Area, outlined his plan to ramp up
the volume of cases during a panel discussion last week at the federal
courthouse in San Francisco. The question on the minds of the dozens of
prominent white collar defense attorneys in the room was what they should be
telling their corporate clients, who historically have had little reason to fear
the office.


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