Daniel V. Shapiro
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MetLife
VP & Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity
As Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, supervised the Cybercrimes Unit, Economic Crimes Unit, Health Care Fraud Unit, Opioid Abuse and Prevention Unit, Government Fraud Unit, National Security Unit, and Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit.
Served as the COVID-19 Fraud Coordinator, eLitigation & eDiscovery Coordinator, Filter Review Coordinator, Giglio Officer, and International Coordinator.
2020 : 2022
United States Attorneys' Offices
Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division
As Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit, supervised the Office’s prosecution of securities fraud, cybercrime affecting financial markets, commodities fraud, investment advisor fraud, corporate fraud, cyber-enabled fraud, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. Worked extensively with the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
2019 : 2020
United States Attorneys' Offices
Chief, Economic Crimes Unit
2012 : 2019
United States Attorneys' Offices
Assistant United States Attorney - Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property Crimes
2008 : 2012
Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman P.C.
Associate
About
Dan Shapiro currently serves as Vice President & Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity at MetLife. He is the principal lawyer for MetLife on cybersecurity issues and is the principal lawyer for MetLife's Global Security Organization.
Prior to joining MetLife, Dan spent ten years investigating and prosecuting cyber and white-collar crimes as a federal prosecutor. He served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, where he supervised dozens of federal prosecutors in the units that investigate and prosecute cybercrimes, financial crimes, health care fraud, and national security crimes. He supervised the Office's affirmative civil enforcement actions, the investigation and resolution of qui tam whistleblower actions, and corporate resolutions. He also served as Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit where he supervised the prosecutors that investigate and prosecute complex fraud cases, including securities fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, commodities fraud, accounting fraud, corporate fraud, financial institution fraud, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
In addition, Dan served as a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) prosecutor, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving ransomware, digital intrusions, business email compromises, dark web vendors and marketplaces, intellectual property crimes, digital currency frauds, and other internet-based financial schemes. He investigated and prosecuted the first major hack-to-trade cases brought by the Department of Justice, including the hacking of major newswire services and the hacking of the SEC's EDGAR database.
Prior to his government service, Dan practiced in New York as a civil litigator and white-collar defense attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and at Stillman Friedman & Shechtman. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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