Benjamin Wagner

At Gibson Dunn, Wagner handles government investigations, criminal white collar defense and civil litigation, and investigations in the technology sector. His extensive experience involves the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) and the False Claims Act (FCA), as well as mortgage fraud, securities and investment fraud, health care fraud, cybercrime, public corruption, government contracting fraud, and environmental crime.

Appointed by President Obama, Wagner served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2009 through 2016. In that position, he oversaw a team of 90 attorneys. He served for three years on Attorney General Eric Holder’s Advisory Committee, where he worked with DOJ leadership on developing national law enforcement policy. He also served as Co-Chair of the White Collar Crime Subcommittee. Wagner also co-chaired the Mortgage Fraud Working Group of the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.

As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District from 1992 to 2009, he litigated financial crimes, tax evasion, health care fraud, and domestic terrorism. From 2000 to 2009, he was Chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit, where he supervised a team of prosecutors concentrating on major federal crimes. He graduated in 1986 from New York University School of Law.