{"id":27808,"date":"2020-08-27T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27808"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:14:49","slug":"former-fincen-director-robert-werner-leaves-libra-association-after-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-fincen-director-robert-werner-leaves-libra-association-after-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FinCEN Director Robert Werner Leaves Libra Association After Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former FinCEN director Robert Werner has stepped down as Libra Association&#8217;s chief legal officer after three months in the role.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a comment to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/libra-association-lands-former-homeland-security-general-counsel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg Law<\/a> he explained that the position would have required him to resign from his seats on the boards of Deutsche Bank Trust Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas.<\/p>\n<p>His successor will be former US Department of Homeland Security General Counsel Steve Bunnell. Up to 2013 he was managing partner at international law firm O\u2019Melveny &#038; Myers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSteve is an outstanding lawyer and a great guy. I decided that this position wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d Werner said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As previously reported, Libra Association announced Werner&#8217;s appointment on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>In early May, the Libra Association appointed former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Stuart Levi, as its new CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FinCEN director Robert Werner stepped down as Libra Association&#8217;s chief legal officer after three months in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1089],"class_list":["post-27808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-libra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27809,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808\/revisions\/27809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}