{"id":4009,"date":"2025-12-15T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=4009"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:01","slug":"christiaan-highsmith","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/people\/christiaan-highsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Christiaan Highsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Highsmith is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of California, U.S. Department of Justice.\u00a0 He currently serves in the office\u2019s Corporate and Securities Fraud Section.\u00a0 Mr. Highsmith has more than 10 years of experience investigating and prosecuting a broad range of criminal cases, including cases involving cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering, cybercrime, corporate and investment fraud, intellectual property crime, counterfeit goods trafficking, money laundering, bribery, violent national gangs and transnational criminal organizations, racketeering, and firearms offenses.\u00a0 In addition to prosecuting criminal cases, from 2021 to 2022, Mr. Highsmith served at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo as the Intermittent Legal Advisor to Egypt, where he advised the Egyptian justice sector on combatting money laundering, cybercrime, intellectual property crime, and antiquities trafficking.\u00a0 Mr. Highsmith has served as an expert presenter on criminal justice issues at conferences in Egypt, Turkey, Bahrain, Taiwan, and Uzbekistan.\u00a0 Prior to his current role, Mr. Highsmith trained and supervised newly hired criminal prosecutors, coordinated the Northern District of California\u2019s response to investigating and prosecuting COVID-related crime, and served on the office\u2019s hiring committee.\u00a0 Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Highsmith served as a law clerk for a federal district court judge and worked at an international law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4011,"menu_order":2,"template":"","categories":[53],"class_list":["post-4009","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliance.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}