Courtney Linn '90 Honored by US Department of Justice

Courtney Linn '90, an assistant United States Attorney, received the U.S. Department of Justice's John Marshall Award for excellence in legal performance at the department's Annual Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C. on October 28.  The John Marshall Award is the highest honor the Attorney General awards for contributions by Department of Justice lawyers in specific subject areas.

Linn will receive the award for his work in the areas of money laundering and asset forfeiture.  He is the chief architect of strategies the Department of Justice has employed to detect and prosecute financial crimes including terrorist financing and money laundering.  He has authored numerous papers on money laundering and asset forfeiture that have appeared in government publications and legal journals in the U.S. and Great Britain.