Enron Prosecutor Joins Law Firm
The former leader of the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force has switched to defending suspected white-collar criminals.
Leslie Caldwell, who stepped down as the task force’s leader in March, has joined the corporate investigation and criminal defense team in the New York office of Morgan Lewis, a Philadelphia-based law firm.
Caldwell, who was a government prosecutor for 17 years, will lead the firm’s criminal defense team in New York and work with its California offices to enhance the litigation group’s West Coast practice, the firm said Wednesday.
Caldwell stepped down from the Enron Task Force less than two weeks after former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling was indicted in February on charges that include fraud, conspiracy and insider trading. He pleaded not guilty.
Before joining the Enron Task Force, Caldwell headed the U.S. attorney’s office criminal division in San Francisco
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