Jessie Kong Liu (Chinese: 劉潔西; born January 2, 1973) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia from 2017 to 2020.
[8] Liu worked for the 2016 transition team of President-elect Donald Trump, and in 2017 became deputy general counsel at the United States Department of the Treasury.
[1][9] While serving as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Liu received criticism from residents and local lawmakers for her record of not prosecuting hate crimes.
[10] An investigation by The Washington Post found that under her leadership, hate crime prosecutions and convictions in D.C. were at their lowest point in at least a decade.
[12][13][14] On December 10, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Liu as Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes at the Department of the Treasury.
[17] As a US attorney, Liu had overseen some ancillary cases referred by the Mueller investigation including the prosecution of longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, as well as a politically charged case involving former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of Trump's ire.