By Allan Lengel
Jeffrey B. Veltri was recently named head of the FBI’s Miami Field Office. In his last job he served as a section chief in the Security Division at FBI headquarters.
He joined the FBI in 2002 and worked health care fraud in the San Diego Field Office. He also served on the joint terrorism task force and investigated international terrorism matters.
In 2006, he deployed to Iraq to support the Regime Crime Liaison Office, according to a press release. He investigated war crimes and supported the Iraqi High Tribunal’s prosecution of former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein.
In 2011, he was promoted to supervisory special agent and transferred to the Cyber Division at FBI headquarters, where he served as the special assistant to the division’s assistant director.
In 2013, he moved to the San Diego Field Office to supervise the health care fraud, public corruption, and civil rights squads. He also supervised FBI San Diego’s Imperial County Resident Agency, where he oversaw border corruption, human trafficking and child exploitation task forces.
In 2016, he headed back to D.C. to become chief of the Civil Rights Unit in the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters.
Two years later he was named assistant special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Office. He then returned once again to FBI headquarters in 2021.
Before joining the FBI, he was a public defender with the Broward County Public Defender’s Office in Florida. He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology from the University of South Florida and a law degree from Widener University School of Law in Delaware.
