U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office for United States Trustees
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PRESS RELEASE
For
Immediate Release
December
4, 2003
SANDY
KLEIN IS APPOINTED
REGIONAL
CRIMINAL COORDINATOR
FOR
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE PROGRAM
WASHINGTON,
D.C.–It was announced today that Sandy Klein has been
appointed as a Regional Criminal Coordinator for the United
States Trustee Program in the Central and Southern Districts
of California, the District of Arizona, and the District of
Hawaii. The announcement was made by Lawrence Friedman, Director
of the Executive Office for United States Trustees.
The
U.S. Trustee Program is a component of the Justice Department
that protects the integrity of the bankruptcy system by overseeing
case administration and litigating to enforce the bankruptcy
laws. The Program established a Criminal Enforcement Unit
in July 2003 to build upon its efforts to identify, refer,
and assist the United States Attorneys in prosecuting bankruptcy
fraud. The Criminal Enforcement Unit is headed by Peter Ainsworth,
who previously served as a Trial Attorney in the Justice Department’s
Public Integrity Section and its Office of Consumer Litigation.
Sandra Rasnak, Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Program’s
Chicago office, is the Acting Deputy Chief of Criminal Enforcement.
Other Regional Criminal Coordinators are Celeste Miller of
Boise, Idaho, and Robert Calo of Philadelphia.
Sandy
Klein has been an employee of the U.S. Trustee Program for
six years, prosecuting bankruptcy fraud cases as a Special
Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Los Angeles office. She created
the “Stop Identity Theft Now” videotape, which
was co-sponsored by the Program and has been distributed to
approximately 10,000 recipients nationwide, and she has lectured
across the country on bankruptcy fraud and identity theft
issues. She received her law degree magna cum laude from Loyola
Law School in Los Angeles, where she now teaches as an adjunct
professor, and her undergraduate degree from the University
of Lowell in Lowell, Mass.
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