Represented wholesale seafood supplier during a federal investigation that ended by convincing prosecutors to decline bringing charges against the client.
 

Successfully defended gas utility facing $26 million in fines for alleged violations of pipeline maintenance regulations by establishing that regulators misapplied federal law and potentially violated the client’s due process rights leading to a resolution with no finding of fault or payment of a fine.  
 

Conducted internal investigation that cleared officers of a Manhattan-based state public authority of alleged ethical misconduct.
 

Won dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit against a state investigator who testified accurately at the corruption trial of former New York City Councilman, who sued after his conviction was overturned.
 

As deputy General Counsel for the Long Island Power Authority, led multi-agency investigation into the service provider’s lack of preparation for a summer storm that left most of the utility’s customers without power for days.  The investigation’s findings led to numerous operational and contract reforms.

As a Justice Department prosecutor:
 

• Tried and convicted an Ohio-based shipping company and its vice president of operations of intentionally dumping waste oil and other pollutants into the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers during a twenty-year conspiracy to violate the Clean Water Act.
   

• Led an eight-year investigation and two trials that ended with the convictions of defendants involved in a decade-old, cold-case triple homicide.
   

• Took over a stalled federal investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of the highest-ranking uniformed member of the Suffolk County Police Department on criminal civil rights charges arising from his beating of a handcuffed prisoner, whom he also threatened to kill.