Month: July 2021

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Michael J. Driscoll as the assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office. He most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office.

Mr. Driscoll has served in New York several times since becoming a special agent in 1996, including his first assignment working counterterrorism cases. He was part of the team that investigated al Qaeda conspirators, including those responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the attacks on 9/11. In 2003, he was appointed as the FBI’s representative to the al Qaeda Department of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

In 2005, Mr. Driscoll was promoted to supervisor and returned to the New York office, where he led the squad responsible for extraterritorial investigations in Africa. He also led the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts in the New York Hudson Valley region and was later promoted to the coordinating supervisory special agent for New York’s counterterrorism program.

Mr. Driscoll was named assistant legal attaché for London in 2013, overseeing the cyber program and working closely with United Kingdom counterparts. In 2016, he was appointed assistant special agent in charge of Philadelphia’s counterintelligence and cyber programs.

He returned to FBI Headquarters in 2018 as the chief of the Violent Crime Section, which leads the FBI’s Crimes Against Children program and efforts to reduce violent crime. Mr. Driscoll was promoted to special agent in charge of New York’s Criminal Division in 2019 and was later transferred to lead New York’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division.

He was appointed special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office in 2020.

Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Driscoll worked in commercial litigation as an attorney. He graduated from the State University of New York in Albany and received his law degree from Hofstra University School of Law.

With more than 2,000 special agents, professional staff, and task force members, the New York Field Office is the FBI’s largest in terms of personnel. It is one of three field offices to be led by an assistant director in charge instead of a special agent in charge.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Jennifer L. Moore as the assistant director of the Security Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ms. Moore most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Intelligence and Incident Response Division at the Washington Field Office.

Ms. Moore joined the FBI in 1995 as an office automation assistant in the San Diego Field Office. She was promoted to a supervisor, then was selected as a special agent in 1998. Her first assignment as a new agent was in the Dallas Field Office, where she worked complex financial crimes and public corruption. She was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2005 and oversaw personal, physical, and information security at the office.

In 2010, Ms. Moore transferred to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters as a supervisor in internal investigations. She was promoted to supervisory special resident agent in 2012 and placed in charge of three resident agencies under the Las Vegas Field Office.

Ms. Moore was promoted to an assistant special agent in charge in the Louisville Field Office in Kentucky in 2015, leading the FBI’s criminal investigations throughout the state. She also oversaw the incident response teams and the administrative functions for the field office.

Ms. Moore was promoted to section chief in the Security Division at Headquarters in 2017, focusing on internal security issues. She transferred to the Strategic Realignment Project Management Office in 2019, where she oversaw the expansion of FBI Headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Pocatello, Idaho.

She was named SAC of the Intelligence and Incident Response Division at the Washington Field Office in 2019.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Moore was a manager with an international marketing firm. She earned a degree in business management.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Christine O’Neill as the assistant director of the Human Resources Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ms. O’Neill most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division at the Washington Field Office.

Ms. O’Neill joined the FBI as a special agent in 1999 and was assigned to the Meriden Resident Agency, a satellite office of the New Haven Field Office in Connecticut. She primarily investigated white-collar crime. In 2005, she was promoted to supervisory special agent and was assigned to the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters. She worked in the Global Operations Unit and the Iraq Unit of the International Terrorism Operations Section II in McLean, Virginia. She also served as the FBI liaison to Iraq for several months in 2007.

Ms. O’Neill was promoted in 2007 to supervisor of the Boston Field Office’s health care fraud program, which she led for nearly seven years. In 2014, she was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of Boston’s Intelligence/Administrative Branch. She transferred to ASAC of Boston’s White Collar Branch in 2016.

In 2017, Ms. O’Neill was promoted to chief of the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Section of the Security Division at Headquarters. She shifted to chief of the Security Operations Section in 2018 and was promoted to deputy assistant director of the division’s Security Operations Branch I in 2019.

She was promoted to special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division at the Washington Field Office in 2020.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. O’Neill worked in the investment sector. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bentley University.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Timothy M. Dunham as the assistant director of the Training Division. Mr. Dunham most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Dunham joined the FBI as a special agent in 2002 and worked counterintelligence cases in the Chicago Field Office. He was promoted in 2007 to a supervisory special agent in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters. In 2009, he transferred to the Counterterrorism Division as the program manager for the FBI’s extraterritorial counterterrorism investigations that originated in Western Europe.

In 2011, Mr. Dunham was detailed to the Central Intelligence Agency, where he coordinated FBI human intelligence operations overseas with U.S. Intelligence Community partners. He transferred to the FBI’s Albany Field Office in New York in 2012 as the supervisor of a Joint Terrorism Task Force squad, overseeing international and domestic terrorism investigations. He later served as the acting assistant legal attaché in the FBI’s newly established office in Stockholm, Sweden.

In 2015, Mr. Dunham was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Albany office’s criminal and administrative branches. He returned to FBI Headquarters in 2017 as the section chief of the Leadership Development Program.

Mr. Dunham moved to the Washington Field Office in 2018, where he first served as the special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division. In 2019, he was appointed the special agent in charge of Washington’s Criminal Division.

He was promoted in 2020 to deputy assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at Headquarters, where he was in charge of programs dealing with transnational organized crime, violent crime, and operational support.

Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Dunham practiced law in Richmond, Virginia. He earned a degree in accounting from the University of Richmond; Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees from the College of William and Mary; and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University.