Last winter, as Karl Racine looked ahead to the rest of his second term as the District of Columbia’s attorney general, he turned his attention to an early priority that had gone unaddressed in his first four years in office.

After spending that first term developing “a bit of credibility,” he said, as the district’s first elected attorney general, Racine determined it was time to build a public corruption section tasked with targeting bribery, fraud and campaign violations. “And I immediately went to my handy-dandy Rolodex,” Racine said, to consult current and former prosecutors on whom he might attract to advise his office on “what a public corruption or public integrity section might look like.”

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