Recent Representations By Firm Attorneys

Healthcare Fraud

• Successfully negotiated corporate plea avoiding personal criminal charges for pharmacy owner facing massive federal fraud investigation.
• Successfully avoided state criminal charges against two pharmacists and negotiated return of all seized bank accounts and funds.
• Represented executive of national medical device manufacturer in federal investigation of fee for services and product development agreements with doctors that resulted in a corporate plea and civil settlement.
• Represented several doctors in federal and state investigations for no show contracts with hospitals.
• Represented several owners of medical centers and pain management centers that were charged with mail and wire fraud and money laundering.

Mortgage Fraud

• Successfully negotiated a plea for misrepresentation on HUD form avoiding multi-million dollar mortgage fraud charges and restitution
• Represented mortgage brokers, bankers, appraisers, real estate brokers and tax preparers in numerous mortgage and bank fraud investigations involving hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
• Obtained no jail sentence of probation for defendant charged in massive mortgage fraud conspiracy after extensive plea negotiation, arguing successfully in sentencing hearings on loss, relevant conduct and special offense characteristics to reduce offense level.

Money Laundering and Structuring

• Negotiated a no jail time plea for owner of waste disposal company that had structured more than $1 million over the course of two years.
• Represented international business owner in two year investigation of money laundering and wire fraud that resulted in no prosecution.

Perjury

• Acquittal at federal trial for perjury in grand jury and trial involving client's brother.

Securities Fraud

• Represented attorney involved in Galleon Hedge Fund case in S.D.N.Y.; negotiated favorable criminal plea with U.S. Attorney's Office and civil settlement with SEC.
• Successfully argued against charging hedge fund manager in D.N.J. for massive drop in fund value of mortgage backed securities; negotiated favorable settlement with SEC.
• Represented financial adviser in federal fraud scheme; negotiated plea to lesser charges and successfully argued for drastically reduced sentence.

Federal Seizures of Funds at Airports

• Represented several foreign business owners whose cash was seized by DEA and ICE; litigated and/or negotiated return of more than $1 million of seized funds.

Criminal Tax Investigations

• Represented owner of mortgage company in two year investigation and convinced DOJ Tax Division not to proceed with charges.
• Represented accountant charged with preparing and filing hundreds of false returns and successfully avoided prison.
• Represented numerous business owners in failure to file income and payroll taxes.

Drugs and Guns

• Federal trial acquittal for felon in possession of a handgun who faced fifteen years in prison if convicted.
• Federal drug distributor received four years rather than twelve in multi-state major drug conspiracy.
• Defended numerous individuals on federal and state drug charges in New Jersey and New York.

Murder/Death Penalty

• Successful motion to strike several aggravating factors in high profile federal death penalty case in New York.
• Motion to suppress briefing resulted in a district court decision holding, for the first time, that non-citizen defendants interrogated by U.S. law enforcement on foreign soil are entitled to Fifth Amendment protections.