Karine Moreno-Taxman
Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice
Karine is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin where she presently handles complex criminal investigations and prosecutions. Ms. Moreno-Taxman also has been detailed by the Department of Justice from 2007-2009 to Brazil, from 2009-2011 to Mexico, during June of 2016 to Panama. She just completed a two and half year detail to Malaysia where she provided mentoring and training regarding human trafficking to law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, NGO’s, members of civil society, and the private sector. She helped Malaysia create its first Multijurisdictional Human Trafficking Task Force and spearheaded Malaysia’s First Victim-Witness Assistance Program. Both have become permanent and central parts of Malaysia’s efforts to combat human trafficking. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she prosecutes both international and domestic commercial sex trafficking cases, forced labor cases, and other complex federal crimes. She was the Chair of the Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Human Trafficking Task Force up until 2019.
In Mexico, she assisted the Government of Mexico in developing and institutionalizing programs to enhance their abilities to address corruption, money laundering, intellectual property rights violations, violent crimes, human trafficking, and gang activities. She also assisted the Mexican Government reform some of Mexico’s penal procedures to enhance Mexico’s ability to investigate and combat crime and to work with the United States. Ms. Moreno-Taxman assisted Mexico in creating their national Amber Alert program, which, to date, has saved over 700 Mexican children. In Brazil, because of the assistance she provided the Brazilian government, Brazil passed its first law that criminalized the possession of child pornography. In addition, she created a program that allowed Brazilian and U.S. authorities, working with the private sector, to identify those who may be victims of human trafficking before they were taken from Brazil to the United States.
Ms. Moreno-Taxman has trained prosecutors in the United States and abroad on how to conduct successful human trafficking prosecutions and the importance of working in a coordinated and proactive manner with non-governmental entities in both the private and public sector.
In Mexico, she assisted the Government of Mexico in developing and institutionalizing programs to enhance their abilities to address corruption, money laundering, intellectual property rights violations, violent crimes, human trafficking, and gang activities. She also assisted the Mexican Government reform some of Mexico’s penal procedures to enhance Mexico’s ability to investigate and combat crime and to work with the United States. Ms. Moreno-Taxman assisted Mexico in creating their national Amber Alert program, which, to date, has saved over 700 Mexican children. In Brazil, because of the assistance she provided the Brazilian government, Brazil passed its first law that criminalized the possession of child pornography. In addition, she created a program that allowed Brazilian and U.S. authorities, working with the private sector, to identify those who may be victims of human trafficking before they were taken from Brazil to the United States.
Ms. Moreno-Taxman has trained prosecutors in the United States and abroad on how to conduct successful human trafficking prosecutions and the importance of working in a coordinated and proactive manner with non-governmental entities in both the private and public sector.