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Dickstein Shapiro’s White Collar Criminal Defense Practice includes 20 partners with extensive experience in all aspects of criminal defense. Most are former federal and state prosecutors, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) trial attorneys, and counsel for Congressional investigatory committees. Firm Attorneys have tried hundreds of cases and conducted dozens of internal investigations. Attorneys in the White Collar Criminal Defense Practice have represented corporations and individuals in complex criminal cases involving allegations of health care fraud and abuse, false statements to government investigators, public corruption, money laundering, foreign corrupt practices, government contract fraud, environmental crimes, securities fraud, computer fraud, immigration fraud, federal tax crimes, mail and wire fraud, insurance fraud, violations of mining regulations, and violations of federal election law. Our clients include prominent corporations and financial institutions which are facing high-risk criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as their directors, officers, and managers. While we have an impressive record of success at trial, we never lose sight of the fact that often we can best assist our clients by resolving matters promptly and discreetly outside of public scrutiny. Many of our biggest successes are matters that were never publicized because we successfully resolved them without any formal charges.

Among Dickstein Shapiro’s past and present clients and cases are:

• Representing a mine owner with respect to issues arising from mine collapse in parallel proceedings before Congressional committees, the U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, state mine commission, and grand jury investigations;
• Representing a Fortune 100 multinational telecommunications corporation in inquiries by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the SEC regarding allegations of stock option backdating and earnings manipulations;
• Representing witnesses in the Congressional and independent counsel investigations into Whitewater and related matters, including a Cabinet member, the head of the President’s Secret Service detail, and other high-ranking political appointees;
• Trying a complex criminal case arising from an Independent Counsel investigation into allegations of fraud at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD);
• Representing witnesses and organizations in the Congressional investigation into campaign finance reform and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Campaign Finance Reform Task Force;
• Representing a Nasdaq-listed media company in connection with an investigation by the New York State Attorney General and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concerning payola allegations;
• Representing a former high-ranking executive of Tyco in connection with an investigation by the SEC and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office regarding alleged accounting irregularities;
• Representing a former senior officer of Hollinger International, Inc. in criminal fraud proceedings alleging the diversion of proceeds during the sale of newspaper assets. The firm also represented the executive in parallel SEC investigation and civil proceedings;
• Representing a national higher educational lender in connection with investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Department of Education;
• Representing a Wall Street investment banker at a federal criminal trial, before the SEC, and before a Congressional oversight committee in connection with a transaction between Enron and the investment bank;
• Representing a magazine publisher in connection with an investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York into allegations of circulation fraud;
• Representing individual and corporate defendants in criminal trials in the Espy Independent Counsel investigation;
• Representing a New York branch of a Latin American bank in connection with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office regarding compliance with anti-money laundering provisions;
• Representing executives at a national insurance brokerage arising from an investigation by the New York State Attorney General regarding possible antitrust violations;
• Obtaining appellate reversal of the conviction of a Connecticut businessman on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud;
• Representing the president of an NYSE-traded firm in an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office concerning commercial bribery allegations in the electrical contracting industry;
• Representing a multinational bank in connection with an SEC investigation concerning treatment of lost shareholders;
• Representing officers and directors of several financial institutions in grand jury investigations involving allegations of money laundering, false statements, and bank fraud;
• Representing a corporation charged with violations of environmental laws;
• Representing a national labor union and its executive board in a matter involving allegations of racketeering activity in more than 20 states; and
• Representing a corporation charged with  bribery, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.