Brendan
Shelley
Brendan Shelley is a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) / Section Chief assigned to the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU). His areas of investigative expertise include violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, federal sex trafficking statutes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and laws governing money laundering and financial fraud.
From 2007 through 2018, SSA Shelley was assigned to the HSI DC field office where he served as the lead investigator for over 150 investigations targeting transnational criminal organizations that resulted in arrests, convictions, seizures, money judgements and forfeiture orders. He successfully executed complex investigative case strategies that secured federal convictions against members of violent criminal street gangs, money laundering networks, financial fraudsters and corrupt foreign government officials involved in money laundering activity.
In 2018, SSA Shelley assumed leadership of the HSI Seattle Border Enforcement Security Task Force and Asset Identification and Removal Group– a multi-agency initiative that combats international contraband smuggling, money laundering and financial fraud networks.
In his current position at AFU, SSA Shelley is responsible for developing and deploying national training initiatives designed to enhance HSI’s capabilities to conduct complex asset forfeiture and financial investigations.
SSA Shelley graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and with a Masters of Science degree from the American University’s School of Public Affairs in Washington D.C.