Criminal Law/White Collar Defense

Areas of Concentration

Mail/Wire Fraud
Honest Services
Bribery
Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
Health Care Fraud and Abuse
Nursing Home Fraud and Abuse
RICO
Hobbs Act
False Claims
Money Laundering
Grand Jury Investigations
Internal Investigations
Numerous state offenses, including felony and misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol or drug cases, implied consent charges, traffic related matters

Noted, honored and with a track record of significant success in complex, high-profile cases, AP&S white collar criminal defense attorneys are admitted to practice in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and the United States Supreme Court, as well as in numerous federal district courts and federal courts of appeal, and have represented clients in courts throughout the country.

Authors and frequent lecturers on criminal defense matters, we provide seasoned counseling on conducting internal investigations; represent targets, subjects and witnesses in grand jury proceedings; and have handled and defended numerous trials and appeals in the state and federal courts—including representing clients in major federal investigations: “Plunder Dome,” “Operation Dollar Bill,” “Operation Raw Deal,” and many others.

We work to avoid criminal prosecutions of our clients to the extent possible, regularly negotiating with state and federal prosecutors, striving to convince them not to bring criminal charges. We also work closely with in-house legal counsel and corporate boards of directors conducting internal investigations and, where appropriate, with government prosecutors to negotiate non-prosecution agreements. But when we must go to trial we fight hard and smart, and have tried to verdict cases involving bribery, conspiracy, political corruption, gaming-related charges, construction fraud, money laundering, and more.

Representative Matters

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.

Publications, Lectures and Honors

Our attorneys have authored texts on criminal defense and have also served as editors and contributors to a national criminal defense journal. Additionally, AP&S attorneys have contributed criminal defense articles to such magazines as Criminal Justice, DWI Journal: Law & Science, the Rhode Island Bar Journal, the Connecticut Bar Journal, and The Champion, the magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. From 1984 through 1992 an AP&S attorney served as a regular columnist for The Champion.
AP&S attorneys have spoken at local, regional and national bar programs and seminars on various aspects of criminal defense, including white collar criminal defense, DUI alcohol and drugs, DNA, forensic evidence, opening statements and closing arguments in criminal defense cases, evidentiary issues in criminal defense cases, ethical issues in criminal defense cases, and Daubert and other scientific evidence in criminal defense cases.
Well recognized and honored for their criminal-defense work, our attorneys claim membership in such organizations as the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Bar Association’s White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Section, and as former Regents of the National College for DUI Defense.

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