Michael Fagan

Michael Fagan served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) for the Eastern District of Missouri for twenty-five years, until February 2008, and now consults on domestic and transnational criminal law and procedure, anti-money laundering, counterterrorism, intelligence, and emergency planning issues. Since 2012, he continues as both General Counsel and as Policy, Risk, & Compliance Strategist for the St. Louis Fusion Center. In April 2026, the National Fusion Center Association presented Mike its Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties award. Selected as Coordinator of the USDOJ’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council in 2001, Mike governed regional counterterror efforts in that role for over six years, and continues today as a Special Advisor to the Missouri Office of Homeland Security, following his years of membership on the St. Louis Regional Response System Advisory Board. The U.S. Department of Justice conferred on Mike the National Exceptional Service Award and the EOUSA Director’s Award. In addition to decades of gaining convictions in highly-sensitive and complex cases, Mike was the architect of proceedings resulting in approximately $150 million in forfeiture and tax judgments in favor of the United States. During his twenty-five year tenure as an AUSA, Mike served as a Special Attorney to the United States Attorney General from 1995 to 1997. He also served for three years as the Regional Coordinator for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. In 2019 and 2020, he was called back to serve as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney to handle an extensive international and multi-district money laundering investigation and prosecution. Mike taught at the National Advocacy College, as well as lectured at international, law school, corporate, law enforcement, and college training sessions. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Justice in 1983, he spent a year as a litigator at Bryan, Cave, McPheeters, and McRoberts (now Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLC), in St. Louis. Mike began his law career as an Assistant Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, after graduating from Washington University School of Law in 1977. He played college football at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, from which he graduated with honors in 1974.