Success So Far This Year

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York –represented defendant in multi-defendant conspiracy charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York with effectuating a private equity ponzi scheme resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to investors, allegedly creating “fake” financial guarantees that promised potential portfolio losses would be resolved by a financial partner. The defendant pleaded guilty to wire fraud and testified at trial against the co-defendants. At sentencing, held on September 15, 2025 in New York, my co-counsel and I were able to persuade the court to sentence our client to “time served.” The client walked out of the court room a free man.
• United States District Court for the Southern District of California –represented a wife and husband charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California (San Diego) in a $125 million health care fraud scheme, allegedly billing government health care programs for medically unnecessary treatments. At sentencing held on March 1, 2024 in federal court in San Diego, Probation recommended that the wife be sentenced to six years incarceration and the husband be sentenced to eight years. Taking into account a lesser role and assistance to the Government, the Government recommended over three years for the husband. However, based on vigorous argument at the sentencing hearing, coupled with years of assistance to the Government by the defendants, we were able to persuade the court to issue a more lenient sentence of 27 months (2.3 years) for both husband and wife.
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey – represented the CEO and majority shareholder of an 80 year old manufacturing company as plaintiff against the company’s private equity investor; won a preliminary injunction evidentiary hearing blocking the takeover of the company.
• New York State Supreme Court – represented plaintiff against private equity investor in preliminary injunction battle to force release of lien and won injunction in trial part and defeated emergency appeal by defendant to appellate division.
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York –represented defendant CEO and his company in post-judgment collection litigation versus a large pharma plaintiff claiming a $33 million damage award; defeated motion to freeze assets.
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York –represented white collar defendant in parallel DOJ-SEC action alleging private equity fraud scheme; client resolved criminal allegations by way of plea agreement and consent agreement with SEC.