Jonathan J. Rusch

Jonathan J. Rusch is Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. His areas of responsibility include serving as the Department's coordinator of the Internet Fraud Initiative, a nationwide initiative established in 1999 to increase Internet fraud prosecutions and improve public education and prevention on Internet fraud. He also serves as Chair of the national-level Telemarketing and Internet Fraud Working Group, Co-Chair of the U.S.-Canada Binational Working Group on Cross-Border Mass-Marketing Fraud, and a member of the United States delegation to the G-8 High-Tech Crimes Subgroup.

Mr. Rusch received an A.B. degree with honors from Princeton University in 1974, an M.A. degree in Government from the University of Virginia in 1978, and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review, in 1980. Mr. Rusch was an associate with a Washington, D.C. law firm, Counsel to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, and Director of the Office of Financial Enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury before coming to the Justice Department. Since then, he has been the lead prosecutor in a number of major fraud and public corruption prosecutions, including successful prosecutions of former Treasurer of the United States Catalina Villalpando, former House Sergeant at Arms Jack Russ, and former Members of Congress Mary Rose Oakar and Chris Perkins. In 1995, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for his work in investigating the House Bank scandal, which included the latter three prosecutions.

Since 1996, Mr. Rusch has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on "Global Cyberspace Law," "Comparative and International Law of Cyberspace," and "Trial Practice." He has written a variety of law review articles on cyberspace law and related white-collar crime issues, and lectured at numerous legal and information security programs, as well as the FBI Academy and other law enforcement agencies, on Internet fraud.

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