David P. Weber

For other people named David Weber, see David Weber (disambiguation).

David P. Weber
Born
David Paul Weber
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Attorney, Accounting Professor, private investigator, certified fraud examiner, forensic accountant
Employer(s)Perdue School, Salisbury University
Known forformer Assistant Inspector General for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; whistleblower.
SpouseJulie Goodwin Weber
Websitegoodwinweberlaw.com/attorneys/david-p-weber/

David Paul Weber is an American criminalist, and the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).[1] He is the Principal Investigator of a $2.6 million grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to test various white collar crime interventions concerning elder financial exploitation and high-tech crime.[2] He is a Professor of the Practice in Fraud and Forensic Accounting at the Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University.

In the past, Weber was a whistleblower who reported allegations about foreign espionage against the stock exchanges, and misconduct in the Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme investigations.[3][4][5] In June 2013, the SEC settled with Weber his whistleblower protection and U.S. District Court lawsuits, paying him one of the largest federal employee whistleblower settlements ever.[6][7]

On August 5, 2021, Weber met with the President, Speaker of the House, and Senators at the signing of H.R. 3325, the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal for those officers who lost their lives at the Capitol Insurrection, as he represents one of the deceased police officers and his widow.[8][9] Ultimately, he was successful in having his client Police Officer Jeffrey L. Smith designated as having died in the line of duty by the District of Columbia in March 2022,[10] and in August 2023 by the U.S. Department of Justice.[11]

Weber is now a forensic accounting professor at the Perdue School, Salisbury University.[12] As part of his teaching duties, he is a special investigator for the Maryland State's Attorneys Offices in two adjoining counties, and a Virginia financial crimes state prosecutor in the neighboring Virginia county. He supervises his students who act as intern investigators on financial crime cases.[13][14]

  1. ^ "UC grad now with SEC to speak at college". The Observer-Dispatch. January 13, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  2. ^ "Salisbury University's Fraud Program Receives $2.6 Million Federal Grant". WBOC TV. October 20, 2022. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
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  4. ^ Kane, Alex (November 20, 2012). "Matt Taibbi: Lurid Sex and Corruption Scandal at SEC". Alternet. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  5. ^ Hicks, Josh (June 12, 2013). "SEC settles whistleblower case with $580,000". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  6. ^ Schmidt, Robert (June 10, 2013). "SEC Pays $580,000 Over Ex-Investigator's Firing Claims". Bloomberg. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  7. ^ Holzer, Jessica (June 10, 2013). "Accord Reached Over SEC Firing". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  8. ^ "President Biden Signs Bill Awarding Congressional Gold Medals to January 6 Police Officers | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  9. ^ Schneider, Jessica (August 10, 2021). "Widow of police officer who died by suicide after Capitol riot presses Biden for line of duty benefits". CNN. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  10. ^ Schneider, Jessica (March 10, 2022). "First on CNN: DC police officer's suicide days after Capitol attack declared line-of-duty death after months-long fight by widow | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  11. ^ "DOJ finds police officer's suicide after Jan. 6 attack was a death in the line of duty". NBC News. August 18, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  12. ^ "David P. Weber". Salisbury University. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
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  14. ^ "Upper-Division Certificate in Fraud and Forensic Accounting". Salisbury University. Retrieved September 22, 2021.