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Carmina Hughes is an executive director with Daylight in its Washington office. She is an attorney with over 27 years of investigation and litigation experience in the financial services industry and law enforcement.

Before joining Daylight Forensic, Carmina was a principal with the forensic practice at a "Big Four" accounting firm where she specialized in anti-money laundering compliance and investigations. Carmina’s focus has been on the financial services sector where she works with compliance, audit and legal groups to perform anti-money laundering assessments, training, risk assessments and investigations. She also performed corporate governance reviews and pre-acquisition due diligence compliance assessments.

Prior to joining the private sector, she served as special counsel for enforcement and special investigations at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In this role, Carmina was responsible for conducting money laundering and fraud investigations, bringing all types of enforcement actions against banks and individuals, shaping domestic and international anti-money laundering policies, and implementing the USA PATRIOT Act and Bank Secrecy Act.

Carmina spent 16 years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, where she was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all types of federal crimes including white collar fraud, tax fraud, securities fraud, money laundering and violent crimes. She has held various supervisory posts such as Chief of General Crimes, Chief of Priority Crimes and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. Prior to that, Carmina was an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maryland, handling criminal appeals and representing state officials in correctional litigation matters.

Carmina has a bachelor's degree from Bethany College and earned her law degree from the University of Maryland.