Elise
Bean
Former Staff & Chief Counsel
US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
For nearly 30, years, from 1985 to 2014, Elise Bean worked as an investigator for Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), including 15 years at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). Appointed his PSI staff director and chief counsel in 2003, Ms. Bean handled investigations, hearings, and legislation on matters involving money laundering, shell companies, offshore tax abuse, corruption, and corporate misconduct. After Senator Levin retired in 2015, she helped establish the Levin Center at Wayne Law in his honor, and now works for the Center to help elected legislatures conduct oversight investigations. In 2018, she authored a book: Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse.