Karl Kadon is the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations at the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General. His leadership positions prior to that include roles as the Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office, and as the Deputy City Solicitor for the City of Cincinnati Law Department. He has extensive investigative and trial experience, and his work has been recognized for excellence by numerous law enforcement agencies, including the United States Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the United States Marshals Service, the United States Secret Service, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations, the Fraternal Order of Police, and others.
He taught Ohio Criminal Law at the Cincinnati Police Academy and has been a frequent speaker/teacher in his professional capacity. He was commissioned an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United States Army Reserve, served 28 years and his active service includes deployments to Afghanistan, the Gulf Region, and other places as an advisor to U.S. and Coalition Special Operations Forces. Thereafter, he twice served as representative of the United States Department of Justice in Afghanistan, and for his second such deployment was appointed by the United States Attorney General as the Justice Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
While in Afghanistan he developed an internship program for female lawyers at the Afghanistan Attorney General’s office, initiated a mentoring program at the Afghan Attorney General’s Anti-Terrorism Prosecution Directorate, and worked closely with U.S, Coalition, and Afghan counter-terrorism operatives to investigate, apprehend, and prosecute terrorists and other threats to public safety.
