Moscowitz & Moscowitz, P.A.
The firm's focus is on white collar criminal defense and commercial litigation, including:
- White collar criminal defense: Representing both corporations and individuals, the firm handles a wide range of cases, during their preliminary phases, grand jury investigations and at trial, including antitrust, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, healthcare fraud, mortgage fraud, money laundering, FCPA, export controls violations, RICO, securities fraud, contractor fraud, corruption, tax crimes, OFAC and EPLS debarment matters, and environmental crimes. The firm has on several occasions represented lawyers being investigated for white collar crimes or other alleged misconduct or ethical violations. It has represented corporations at trial and in making voluntary disclosures. In all cases, the first focus for the firm is prevention.
- Civil business litigation defense: The firm represents individuals and corporations involved in commercial litigation, often as part of related criminal or SEC investigations. It also represents individuals and corporations in civil forfeiture proceedings. Most of the firm's cases involve complicated business issues, such as civil securities litigation, shareholder disputes, and the civil fallout of criminal conduct, such as, for example, civil litigation resulting from the collapse of a Ponzi scheme.
- Risk management and compliance guidance: In addition to defending clients in criminal and civil litigation, the firm has considerable experience in internal investigations and compliance work.
- Working with foreign counsel: The firm has relationships with and has on several occasions provided assistance to European and other foreign law firms interested in obtaining evidence through the U.S. judicial process. The firm provides counsel in Spanish, Russian, Hebrew and French.
- Extradition: The firm provides counsel when Americans and international clients are charged with white collar crimes in foreign countries or when the United States government seeks to extradite them to this country.
- International contractual disputes: The firm has substantial experience in matters involving foreign citizens and governments. As just one example, the firm successfully represented the Government of Belize in a lawsuit involving the privatization of its telephone company.
