For Immediate Release
August 7, 2007
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Brian
D. Lamkin Named Assistant Director of the FBI's Training
Division
Brian
D. Lamkin, a 20-year veteran of the FBI, has been named
Assistant Director of the FBI's Training Division in Quantico,
Virginia. Director Robert S. Mueller, III, appointed him
to this position to replace former Assistant Director Keith
Slotter. Mr. Lamkin has served as the Special Agent in Charge
(SAC) of the FBI's Columbia Field Office since August 2005.
As SAC, he led numerous high-profile investigations to include
violent gang disruptions, public corruption matters, and
national security incidents in South Carolina.
Prior
to his current assignment, Mr. Lamkin served as the chief
of the Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative
Division, FBI Headquarters, where he was responsible for
the FBI's White Collar Crime program. In this capacity,
Mr. Lamkin served as co-chair of the Department of Justice's
National Bank Fraud Working Group, and oversaw numerous
high profile cases involving corporate fraud, health care
fraud, and international economic crimes.
Throughout
his FBI career, Mr. Lamkin has focused on investigating
and managing a variety of white-collar crime matters, including
bank fraud, money laundering, health care fraud, and corporate
fraud. After joining the FBI in 1987, he first served in
the Norfolk, Virginia, and Dallas, Texas, field offices.
While in Dallas, Mr. Lamkin was assigned to the Dallas Bank
Fraud Task Force, which addressed the largest savings and
loan failure crisis in U.S. history. Mr. Lamkin then served
as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Financial Institution
Fraud Unit at FBI Headquarters, and later as a field supervisor
in the Baltimore Division where he was the white-collar
crime coordinator.
In
September 2002, he was appointed as the Assistant SAC of
the Louisville Division, where he was responsible for national
security and criminal investigations, and the day-to-day
operations of the FBI in Kentucky.
Mr.
Lamkin is an active instructor and lecturer to law enforcement,
non-government groups, and corporations. He has conducted
domestic and international training on a variety of white-collar
crime topics, major case management, and intellectual property
crimes, and is an FBI certified firearms and general police
instructor. Mr. Lamkin developed the FBI's international
course module on financial crimes investigations utilized
by the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok,
Thailand, and has lectured at the Far Eastern Bank Training
Center, Vladivostok, Russia, and at the International Economic
Crimes Symposium, Cambridge University.
Mr.
Lamkin has written articles for the ABA Banking Journal
(1994) on advance loan fee schemes and for the Butterworth's
Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (1995)
on the criminal exploitation of emerging banking systems
in East European countries. In November 2004, Mr. Lamkin
was featured in the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's
Journal for his leadership of the FBI's White-Collar Crime
program.
In
1978, Mr. Lamkin received a bachelor of music degree in
instrumental music education from Middle Tennessee State
University. In 1980, Mr. Lamkin received a master of music
degree in trumpet performance from the University of Louisville.
Prior to joining the FBI, he was a certified public school
teacher and music department chairman for nine years in
the Louisville metropolitan area. He is married and has
three children.
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