Private Practice Experience

• Represented Fortune 100 companies in FCPA, OFAC, and other criminal and regulatory matters. Conducted transnational internal investigations. Secured resolutions without charges, sanctions, or publicity.
• Represented a Fortune 50 company in successfully challenging a fraudulent multibillion-dollar judgment.
• Represented a Fortune 50 company in responding to a federal congressional inquiry relating to a multibillion-dollar matter.
• Represented nine student-plaintiffs in a two-month trial and landmark education lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of five statutes related to teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs.

Government Experience

• Led the high-profile corruption prosecution of a university dean and sitting Los Angeles City Councilman and former Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Secured a guilty plea from the dean and convictions against Ridley-Thomas following a widely-publicized four-week trial.
• Represented the United States as sole trial and appellate counsel in a corruption and extortion case against an aide to a United States Congressmember in one of the nation’s first post-McDonnell bribery cases. Argued before the Ninth Circuit and successfully defended the convictions on appeal, securing a published opinion and precedent-setting changes to the court’s model jury instructions on federal bribery.
• Served as lead counsel in a multimillion-dollar bribery, fraud, and tax evasion case against high-level public officials and a prominent real estate developer. Secured convictions against all defendants across four related cases following a complex wiretap investigation.
• Represented the United States as trial and lead appellate counsel in a civil rights and obstruction case stemming from the investigation of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca and Undersheriff Paul Tanaka. Secured convictions against all deputy-defendants and successfully defended the convictions before the Ninth Circuit.
• Led a civil rights prosecution against a corrupt deputy sheriff and the fake law enforcement team who committed a multimillion-dollar heist disguised as a search warrant operation. Argued before the Ninth Circuit and successfully defended the trial convictions on appeal.
• Represented the United States as co-lead counsel in a US$15 million bank fraud, wire fraud, tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud, and identity theft case against the CEO of a clothing company. Secured guilty pleas across multiple cases.
• Served as lead trial counsel in a structuring case against a federal public official, securing across-the-board convictions.
• Oversaw election security and integrity for the 2018 and 2020 elections as the appointed District Elections Officer for the Central District of California.