Fabio Leonardi is a former federal prosecutor who served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Dallas, Texas, where he investigated and prosecuted corporate crime, financial fraud, corruption, and violent crime. He also worked as Investigative Counsel with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery, coordinating nationwide fraud investigations affecting multibillion-dollar pandemic relief government programs. Before his government service, Fabio was a Counsel in the Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Defense group at a major international law firm in Washington, DC, where he defended corporations and executives in high-stakes government investigations and litigation. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching financial crime and tax fraud.

Fabio is an alumnus of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding's James Wilson Fellowship and the National Review Institute's Burke to Buckley Fellowship. Fabio holds an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Padua (Italy). He lives in Dallas with his wife and their three children.