Executive Order 13519: Establishment of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
President: Barack Obama
Created a Justice-led interagency task force to coordinate investigation and prosecution of financial fraud arising from the financial crisis.
Status: Revoked.
Is Executive Order 13519 still in effect? No. Revoked and task force terminated by EO 13844 in 2018.
What does Executive Order 13519 do?
EO 13519 brought federal departments, regulators, inspectors general and state and local partners together to target mortgage, securities, procurement, recovery-fund and other financial fraud. It organized cooperation rather than creating new crimes. EO 13844 terminated the task force and revoked the order in 2018.
Before and after
Before the order
Financial-crisis enforcement was spread across many agencies and jurisdictions.
After the order
Working groups pooled intelligence and coordinated investigations, prosecutions and public reporting.
Who had to do what
| Agency / office | Action | Timing / position |
|---|---|---|
| Attorney General | Chair and direct the task force | Ended |
| Member agencies | Share information and coordinate cases | Moved to later structures |
| Executive director | Manage operations and working groups | Ended |
What happened next
EO 13519 created the task force.
EO 13844 terminated it and created a different fraud task force.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
The order conferred no new investigative or prosecutorial power; agencies relied on statutes, warrants, subpoenas and court process.
Sources by type
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Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
- Justice Department — task-force archive (opens in a new tab) Official record
How we checked this
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