03/28/2024
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Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski, with the United States Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced he was resigning from his position with the US DOJ last month. He has played a vital role in essential investigations related to North Carolina. 

Brian C. Rabbitt replaced Benczowski as the acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division in July. 

Before stepping down, Benczkowski, played an interictal role in the inquiry against U.S. Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican suspected of insider-trading crimes and in the investigations of fraud regarding a loan program to help businesses during the Coronavirus Pandemic.   

According to Law.com, Benczkowski announced his plans to step down from the US DOJ in June, but had planned the exit in 2019. 

The DOJ announced investigations into the allegations of fraud with the PPP funding program. Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at: https://www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form.

There have been reports the investigation into Sen. Richard Burr’s stock trades faces constitutional hurdles as the DOJ pursues the first prosecution under the law banning insider trading by members of Congress. 

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