Brian Young is the Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He is responsible for leading the CFTC’s efforts to investigate and prosecute alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations.
Brian Young is the Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He is responsible for leading the CFTC’s efforts to investigate and prosecute alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations.
Mr. Young Brian joined the CFTC in 2024 as the Director of the Whistleblower Office following nearly 20 years at the Department of Justice. His most recent role at DOJ was as the Acting Director of Litigation for the Antitrust Division, where he served as the highest-ranking career official in the Antitrust Division’s litigation program. There, he oversaw criminal prosecutions brought under the Sherman Act as well as civil merger and antitrust conduct litigation. Before his time in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Mr. Young served in various roles in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, culminating in his appointment as Chief of the Fraud Section’s Litigation Unit.
While at the Fraud Section, Mr. Young tried several of the most significant white collar crime matters in the past decade, including jury verdicts involving the first individuals tried in the United States for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate to which hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial productions were tied; a conviction of the former head of HSBC Bank’s Foreign Exchange (FX) desk in connection with a scheme to “frontrun” a client on a $3.5 billion FX trade; and the conviction of two former London and Singapore-based Deutsche Bank precious metals traders arising from a scheme to “spoof” the futures markets by placing over $1 billion in non-bona fide orders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Mr. Young began his career at DOJ as an Attorney General’s Honors Program Attorney assigned to the Fraud Section of the Civil Division, where he worked on civil False Claims Act matters. During his time at DOJ, Mr. Young tried 12 multi-week fraud jury trials and spearheaded numerous criminal and civil corporate resolutions. Immediately following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Alice M. Batchelder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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