Steven
Merrill
FBI Financial Crimes Section Chief Steven Merrill entered on duty with the FBI in 1991 as a Forensic Scientist, and as an FBI Special Agent (SA) 1994. Until 2006, SA Merrill was assigned to the San Francisco Division, where he was assigned to the investigation and prosecution of Theodore Kaczynski on the UNABOM Task Force, and conducted Public Corruption investigations. Mr. Merrill received the 2007 Central District of California U.S. Attorney’s Office award for his investigation of Federal Grand Jury leaks in the BALCO Laboratories drug investigation. In 2006, Mr. Merrill served as an acting Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) at FBIHQ as a DOJ advisor to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. In 2007, SA Merrill was promoted to FBI Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) at New Delhi, India, responsible for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. ALAT Merrill was the FBI’s first responder to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. In 2009, Mr. Merrill served as SSA, supervising corruption, Civil Rights, and antitrust investigations in San Francisco and Oakland. Mr. Merrill served as ALAT Manila from November 2013 to 2017, handling national security matters, including international terrorism. Mr. Merrill was selected as Assistant Special Agent in Charge at Boston in 2017, managing White Collar Crime (WCC) matters for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and Forensic Accountant programs until 2019. He managed corruption and complex WCC investigations, including the Varsity Blues college admissions case. Mr. Merrill is currently the Chief of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Section, leading the FBI’s efforts to identify, deter, and disrupt significant complex financial, health care, money laundering, virtual assets, and intellectual property crime threats impacting the U.S. In this role, Mr. Merrill led the FBI’s efforts to combat fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic.