David P. Weber

David Paul Weber is an American criminalist, and the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He was the Principal Investigator of a $2.6 million grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to test various white collar crime interventions concerning elder financial exploitation and high-tech crime. He is a Teaching Professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University.

In the past, Weber was a whistleblower who reported allegations about foreign espionage against the stock exchanges, and misconduct in the Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme investigations. In June 2013, the SEC settled with Weber his whistleblower protection and U.S. District Court lawsuits, paying him one of the largest federal employee whistleblower settlements ever.

On August 5, 2021, Weber met with the President, Speaker of the House, and Senators at the signing of H.R. 3325, the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal for those officers who lost their lives at the Capitol Insurrection, as he represents one of the deceased police officers and his widow. He again met with the President on January 6, 2023, when his client was awarded, posthumously, the Presidential Citizens Medal. Ultimately, he was successful in having his client Police Officer Jeffrey L. Smith designated as having died in the line of duty by the District of Columbia in March 2022, and in August 2023 by the U.S. Department of Justice, having successfully advocated for Congress to change the Public Safety Officers Benefit Act to allow benefits to families of law enforcement to have died from silent injuries. In June 2025, Weber obtained a jury verdict against Officer Smith's assailant in Washington, DC, federal court.

Weber is a forensic accounting professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. In the past, as part of his teaching duties at Salisbury University, he was a special investigator for the Maryland State's Attorneys Offices in two adjoining counties, and a Virginia financial crimes state prosecutor in the neighboring Virginia county. He supervised his students who acted as intern investigators on financial crime cases.