Public Corruption

Overview

Managing personal, professional, and financial exposure before litigation can be as critical as courtroom defense.

Representing government officials, their staff, and others, we explore all options to avoid indictment on public corruption charges in grand jury proceedings and complex investigations and build effective defense strategies to mitigate immediate and future consequences.

Our team of former prosecutors and criminal defense trial lawyers, many of whom have held supervisory positions in DOJ and various state AG offices, brings in-depth knowledge of the complex federal and state laws underlying public corruption offenses, including those brought under the Hobbs Act, Travel Act, RICO, the program bribery statute, and mail and wire fraud statutes.

As a result, we resolve matters successfully, confidentially, and quickly.

Representative experience

• Represent clients in investigation regarding alleged violations of bribery, kickbacks, and gratuities statutes
• Represented quasi-governmental organization in a federal grand jury investigation of possible honest services fraud
• Defended clients for money laundering and tax fraud
• Successfully represented a client in a government inquiry regarding allegations of campaign finance fraud
• Successful defense in election fraud investigation—criminal RICO case
• Economic stimulus fraud: mitigated the consequences of inquiries in connection with stimulus on our clients
• Representations in connection with government relief (e.g., disaster relief) fraud
• Handled charges of financial fraud involving a massive, years-long highway construction project
• Manage investigations in connection with violations of ethics laws
• Before joining NP, served as lead prosecutor on nine-week trial and conviction of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives involving “$90,000 cash in the freezer” and charges of conspiracy, bribery, FCPA, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction charges
• Prior experience as prosecutors in many well-known, high-profile cases involving extortion and perjury