A target letter, a grand jury subpoena, or an agent at the door is not the end of the process. It is the beginning of the part where representation matters most.
We defend individuals and companies against federal prosecution for healthcare fraud, pandemic-relief and PPP fraud, RICO Act violations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering, bank and wire fraud, tax offences, and government-contract fraud. We appear in the Southern District of Texas and in federal courts across the country.
Before charges
Much of this practice happens in the period nobody sees. Responding to grand jury subpoenas without conceding the government’s framing. Managing a document production so that it answers the request and nothing more. Running an internal investigation that produces the truth for the client rather than a roadmap for the prosecutor. Making a presentation to the line prosecutor, and then to the supervisor, that results in a case never being brought.
Declinations do not make the news, which is precisely why they are the most valuable thing this practice produces. Early, quiet work is frequently the entire representation.
Charged cases
- Pretrial motions — suppression, severance, bills of particulars, and challenges to the sufficiency of the indictment
- Document and ESI review in multi-defendant prosecutions where the production runs to millions of pages and the case turns on a few dozen of them
- Trial defense, including cross-examination of cooperating witnesses, case agents, and government summary analysts
- Sentencing — Guidelines litigation, loss-amount and intended-loss disputes, role adjustments, and mitigation developed over months rather than weeks
- Appeals and post-conviction relief
The offences we see most
| Area | What the government usually has to prove |
|---|---|
| Healthcare fraud | That claims were false and that the defendant knew it — frequently an argument about billing judgment, not deception |
| PPP and pandemic-relief fraud | Material misstatements in an application prepared at speed under guidance that changed repeatedly |
| RICO | An enterprise, a pattern, and the defendant’s agreement to participate in it — three separate fights, often conflated |
| Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | Corrupt intent behind a payment, across borders, usually reconstructed from documents and third-party intermediaries |
| Money laundering | Knowledge that funds were criminally derived, and a transaction designed to conceal that |
| Bank and wire fraud | A scheme, an intent to defraud, and a use of the wires — the breadth of which is why these counts are attached to almost everything |