Investigations, Receiverships & White Collar Defense

Select experience includes:

  • Represent the receiver appointed by the Manhattan federal court (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) to recover and distribute assets from a massive nine-figure cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.

  • Represented several victims of the Ponzi scheme at consumer-debt fund Aequitas to successfully resolve receivership claims.

  • Served as counsel to the Securities Investor Protection Act trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, including investigating accounting-related matters and litigating subsequent transferee cases. Investigations on behalf of the trustee have involved collaboration with the United States Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission, handling the unwinding of the largest-ever known Ponzi scheme.

  • Investigated and recovered $230 million of fraudulent transfers for the court-appointed receiver of the nine-figure Ponzi scheme at the Michael Kenwood Group. A hedge fund transferred money belonging to the receivership to another hedge fund to avoid discovery of a Ponzi scheme and in furtherance of that scheme. After suing the recipient fund we successfully recovered the funds owed.

  • Counseled a major real estate construction company on its government compliance procedures.

  • Defended the CEO of a nationwide real estate conglomerate against an expansive multi-count indictment charging fraud and money laundering. The team secured dismissal of the indictment and prevented subsequent investigations from resulting in any further indictments.

  • Represented a high-profile witness in an FBI sports gambling investigation, preparing the client for witness interview by the FBI and prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York.

  • Sworn in as a Special Assistant District Attorney by New York D.A. Robert Morganthau to brief, argue and win a criminal appeal on statutory and constitutional grounds.

  • Obtained full dismissal of a multi-count felony indictment against the president of one of New York City’s largest heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractors. The team used its knowledge of the New York construction industry to persuade prosecutors that the client was not the proper target of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into corrupt billing practices of general contractors, who exploited subcontractors to overcharge high-end construction clients.