Trial Attorney and Human Trafficking Finance Specialis, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice*

Jane Khodarkovsky is a Trial Attorney and Human Trafficking Finance Specialist in the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), Criminal Division, in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).  She investigates and prosecutes multi-jurisdictional and international money laundering and financial crimes.  She also serves as a subject-matter expert on how to conduct money laundering investigations in human trafficking, human smuggling, and child exploitation cases for DOJ’s litigating components, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, federal, state, and local law enforcement.  She regularly provides guidance and training on forfeiture and restitution for victims of human trafficking.  Before joining the DOJ, she prosecuted enterprise corruption, scheme to defraud, public corruption and tax fraud schemes at the New York County District Attorney’s Office and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.  She graduated from the University of Michigan Law School where she represented victims in the Human Trafficking Clinic and served as Executive Editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, and clerked for the Hon. Ronald D. Wigler, P.Cr. in New Jersey.  She received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University.