Meredith Fitzpatrick is a leading subject matter expert in cryptocurrency and helps clients navigate complex cryptoinvestigation and AML compliance needs. She is a former FBI Special Agent with deep experience investigating cryptocurrency-enabled money laundering, market abuse, and financially motivated and nation-state enabled computer intrusion incidents, and was an early member of the FBI's elite Virtual Currency Response Team. She has extensive experience working complex, multinational investigations, as well as liaising with cryptocurrency and FinTech platforms to provide AML and cybersecurity guidance. During her time in the FBI, she successfully investigated matters involving darknet marketplaces, non-compliant cryptocurrency exchanges, on-chain money laundering typologies, investment schemes, hacked or stolen funds, state-sponsored computer intrusions, and use of cryptocurrency by Russian intelligence agencies and North Korea. At FRA, Meredith uses her investigative experience and deep ties in the crypto and blockchain intelligence industries to support organizations resolving issues associated with cryptocurrency and emerging financial technology. She has served as an expert witness in numerous jurisdictions and has lead multi-jurisdictional crypto investigation and liquidation cases.
