Brian Young

Brian currently serves as the Director of the Whistleblower Office of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He started that role in 2024. Before coming to the CFTC, Brian served for nearly 20 years in the Department of Justice, most recently 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. In that role, he oversaw criminal prosecutions brought under the Sherman Act as well as civil merger and antitrust conduct litigation. Before his time at the Antitrust Division, Brian 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, Brian tried several of the most significant white collar crime matters in the past decade, including trial convictions of 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. In addition to financial fraud, Brian worked on several procurement fraud and public corruption prosecutions. Brian 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, Brian 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.