It is my responsibility as a criminal defense attorney to review and analyze the evidence against my client and then design and implement a strategy for success. I approach each legal case based upon my more than thirty-five years of experience.

I graduated from the George Washington University, one of the premier law schools in the United States, in 1982. As the result of my academic achievements, I was then hired to work for a United States federal district judge in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, I joined a very large law firm, with offices in more than a dozen cities in the United States. While at the law firm, I participated as a defense attorney in a ten month long criminal trial, where my client was the former Secretary of Labor of the United States. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to all 137 counts in the case.

I thereafter joined the United States Department of Justice and for the next twenty-two years I prosecuted every type of criminal case imaginable, including fraud, gang cases, international drug conspiracy and money laundering cases. I was the lead counsel in more than eighty jury trials, including the successful prosecution of Colombian Senator Santander Lopesierra. I appeared as an attorney in thousands of other court proceedings and was an instructor at the Department of Justice’s training academy for prosecutors.

In 1999 I left the Department of Justice to begin the next phase of my professional life as a defense attorney. As a criminal defense attorney, I have represented defendants in federal courts in Washington, D.C., Miami, Tampa, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Virginia as well as other jurisdictions. I specialize in the defense of foreign nationals charged in criminal cases in the United States. I have represented defendants from Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, Lebanon, Argentina, Mexico, and Lithuania.

I believe that I bring to bear a unique set of experiences and ability to the defense of criminal cases. Most notably, I have filed hundreds of legal motions as a defense attorney challenging every aspect of criminal cases, including claiming that: (1) the criminal statute is unconstitutional; (2) the criminal statute does not apply to conduct committed outside the United States; (3) the criminal charges are too vague and that due process requires them to be dismissed; (4) the Government failed in its responsibility to provide the defense with notice of the evidence against the defendant; (5) the Government intercepted the defendant’s phone calls and/or messages in violation of the law; (6) the defendant withdrew from the criminal conspiracy and the Government cannot use its evidence against him; and (7) the defendant was not a member of the conspiracy charged by the United States. Examples of these motions and others can be found on the website.

In my professional opinion, a defendant needs a lawyer who has the ability to challenge the Government’s case – and not simply try to make a deal with the prosecutors and “hope” for the best. Moreover, it is quite often necessary to challenge the Government’s case in order to obtain the best possible outcome in a case. Since every accused person wants the best result, they should hire a lawyer who has the skills, the ability, the determination, and the experience to achieve that result. I am that lawyer.