Criminal Law/ White Collar Defense

• AP&S attorneys successfully defended the former Mayor of Providence’s Chief of Staff in federal corruption, bribery and conspiracy charges, obtaining a jury verdict on all counts.
• AP&S attorneys represented through two trials and appeals a U.K.-based gaming institution on public corruption, honest services and bribery charges.
• We represented the subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company in a significant grand jury investigation relating to alleged fraudulent lending-schemes, convincing a federal prosecutor not to seek indictment.
• AP&S attorneys represented owners of nursing homes and health care facilities, defending them on Medicaid, Medicare, equity-skimming and fraud claims.
• We represented a major wire and cable manufacturer on internal investigations relating to kick-back and fraud charges in that industry.
• AP&S attorneys represent a national utility company on defense of criminal environmental charges brought under federal statutes relating to the alleged improper storage of chemicals.
• We represent an Asian foreign pharmaceutical company in a multi-state, multi-jurisdictional regulatory and criminal prosecution arising out of the Mitchell Report and involving distribution of HGH.
• AP&S attorneys successfully defended the employee of a precious-metals firm on charges of stealing gold and silver, obtaining a defense verdict on all charges.
• AP&S attorneys defended a foreign national physician on charges of money laundering, healthcare fraud and conspiracy.
• We successfully represented a financial institution investigated for allegedly paying kick-backs to a local politician, convincing prosecutors not to bring charges.
• On a pro bono basis, AP&S attorneys, working with the ABA Death Penalty Project, represented a death-row inmate through state and federal appeals and habeas corpus proceedings.
• AP&S attorneys were court appointed by the chief judge of a federal court to represent a member of the Latin Kings gang.  We were successful in convincing the U.S. Department of Justice to decline seeking the death penalty and defended, through the court appointment, the reputed head of the Latin Kings gang through a trial that lasted several months.