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Amelia Medina focuses on criminal, civil, and congressional disputes involving technology, life sciences, healthcare, financial services, insurance, energy transition, artificial intelligence, defense, and government contracting. Amelia also advises major corporations and executives on potential impacts of evolving national security and law enforcement priorities to manage corporate strategy and risk.
Prior to rejoining King & Spalding, Amelia served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Director of the FBI, and as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General (DAG) at the Department of Justice.
At the FBI, Amelia worked on priority domestic and international investigations, including: complex financial fraud and corporate malfeasance, sanctions and export controls, nation-state-sponsored theft of proprietary corporate data, cyber and security-related critical incidents, official corruption, and issues before the National Security Council.
Amelia is experienced in steering responses to oversight requests and preparing witnesses to testify before House and Senate committees. For “members only” classified briefings to the full U.S. Congress, at which only the testifying agency leaders, the House Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader were permitted to bring an aide, Amelia accompanied and advised the FBI Director.
As Senior Counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Amelia managed a department-wide portfolio of white-collar criminal matters, corporate enforcement priorities, compliance initiatives, and other case-specific issues arising across Main Justice divisions and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, as well as with SEC, CFTC, the Federal Reserve, and various agency Offices of Inspector General. Amelia served as the first Chair of the Corporate Enforcement & Accountability Working Group, a leadership committee responsible for guiding the DOJ’s strategy and policies to combat corporate criminal and civil fraud nationwide. She played an integral part in the development and implementation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy and served as the principal staff counselor to the DAG on approvals of corporate compliance monitorships.
Amelia also litigates and conducts investigations in the areas of white collar criminal defense, fraud, regulatory enforcement, and False Claims Act and qui tam suits. She previously served as a federal criminal prosecutor in the Financial Crimes & Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Amelia speaks and authors publications on topics in government investigations and related litigation. She is a member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court for white collar practitioners in Washington, D.C.
Amelia graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, with a degree from the School of Public & International Affairs. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and was a member of The Yale Law Journal.
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