Michael Bresnick

Michael Bresnick is chair of the Federal Services Investigations and Enforcement Practice at Venable LLP. He advises clients on a wide range of financial services, government enforcement actions, consumer protection, mortgage fraud, FIRREA, BSA/AML, securities matters, and congressional investigations. An accomplished trial and appellate attorney, Bresnick has led 16 federal trials and numerous cases in federal and state appellate courts.

Prior to Venable, Bresnick served in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to 2013, and during the last two of those years he served as executive director of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. In this role, he served as a top advisor to the U.S. attorney general and led the largest interagency coalition ever assembled to combat financial fraud. Bresnick previously worked as an assistant chief in the Fraud Section of the DOJ Criminal Division, supervising a team of attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes, including mortgage fraud, bank fraud, securities fraud, investment fraud, and grant and procurement fraud, among others. Prior to that, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, one of the largest in the country. He began his career as a litigation associate, focusing on white-collar criminal defense, including securities and corporate fraud, complex commercial litigation, and bankruptcy litigation.