Originally posted on Global Investigations Review
An experienced trial attorney at the DOJ Criminal Division’s corporate enforcement and compliance unit has stepped up as chief.
Marnee Rand has been elevated as the unit’s permanent leader roughly a year after her long-tenured predecessor, Andrew Gentin, left for private practice. The DOJ updated its leadership webpage to reflect her new role on 25 August.
Part of the recently renamed White-Collar and Corporate Enforcement Section, the Corporate Enforcement and Compliance Unit advises prosecuting teams on compliance elements of resolutions, evaluates companies’ compliance programmes, oversees post-resolution matters such as monitorships and helps draft key policy documents.
Rand was supervised by Gentin, who took over the unit in 2021 and played a crucial role in shaping the DOJ’s current approach to corporate enforcement, before he left the government for RosettiStar in September 2025.
Gentin, who once served as a prosecutor at the FCPA Unit, said in an email to GIR that Rand “is extraordinarily hard-working and very well-versed in compliance and corporate criminal enforcement”.
In her new role, Rand will oversee the division’s corporate misconduct investigations and prosecutions. The unit is responsible for “all aspects” of the white-collar section’s corporate criminal enforcement practice, according to the department. It closely follows the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) framework, last updated in 2024, to assess the effectiveness of companies’ programs.
Rand is also currently serving as acting CEC chief for the department’s newly created Fraud Division, where she is on a detail until February 2027, according to a person familiar with the matter. Her name appeared in a July press release announcing the Fraud Division’s decision to decline prosecution of a management services company.
Appearing at a GIR event in March, Rand said last year’s updates to the DOJ’s corporate enforcement policy created more predictability for companies and prosecutors.
“We have been able to effectively apply the principles and guidelines set forth in the corporate enforcement policy across the wide gamut of our cases,” she said at the conference, hosted by Paul Hastings in Washington, DC.
Before joining Main Justice, Rand worked as a special assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia, where she prosecuted fentanyl trafficking. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2018 after graduating from Boston College Law School.
Seth DuCharme, a former top DOJ official now at Bracewell in Washington, DC, said Rand is a career professional with relevant experience from her time at the white-collar section.
“She’s been a repeat player in a number of the complex cases that I’ve resolved with the department, and I’ve found her to be a professional and capable lawyer,” said DuCharme, who served as principal associate deputy attorney general under the first Trump administration.
A white-collar lawyer who asked to remain anonymous told GIR that the CEC chief position “really grew under [Gentin]to encompass both review of compliance programmes, supervision of monitorships and helping define policy issues”.
“For example, the various safe harbor policies were all mid-wived in his shop,” they added.
The lawyer said the DOJ probably didn’t feel a need to go outside the CEC unit for a high-profile hire because existing corporate enforcement policies are mature, enforcement has slowed and monitorships have become rare.
“My strong sense is that those functions can adequately be fulfilled by Marnee and the existing leadership at the White Collar and Corporate Enforcement section,” the person said.
Like everything else at the Fraud Section, the role has been downsized under the current administration, they added.
The development should not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been dealing with the white-collar section on a regular basis.
“Marnee has been across the table since Andrew left,” the lawyer said.
