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I also support the Deputy AG leading the investigation:

LITIGATOR OF THE WEEK: DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK FILIP
Yesterday appeared to be a watershed moment in the government's crackdown on mortgage fraud. The Justice Department announced that it made more than 60 arrests across the country, punctuated by the very public perp walk of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers indicted on securities fraud and insider trading charges. (The Am Law Daily reports that the government was hell-bent on making a show of the arrests.) We were surprised to learn that the government had charged more than 400 people with mortgage-fraud related crimes in the last few months, since just a couple weeks ago Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the Justice Department didn't need to create a national task force to combat the problem.

Now we know the AG had it all under control with "Operation Malicious Mortgage," a previously unannounced multi-agency enforcement effort that was unveiled yesterday by our Litigator of the Week, Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip. We tip our hat to Filip because he apparently plans to give us plenty to write about in the coming months, not to mention a lot of work to lawyers in the defense bar. The 42-year-old Filip, who chairs the (still alive and kicking!) Corporate Task Force, has a pre-DOJ resume that is as diversified as it is distinguished: Scalia Supreme Court Clerk; Chicago federal prosecutor; Skadden, Arps partner; and federal district judge for the Northern District of Illinois. In his spare time he taught criminal law and civil procedure at the University of Chicago law school. He's only been on the job at Justice since March, but you can expect to hear a lot more from him as "Malicious Mortgage" continues to rack up arrests.