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Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section
Prosecuted white-collar crime. Cases included public corruption, money-laundering, health care fraud, HUD fraud and immigration fraud.
Prosecuted and tried only case in the Central District that convicted defendant of money-laundering for the purposes of tax evasion.
Trials included:
Received award from FBI for Laser Eye Center prosecution.
Served as Indian Crimes Coordinator and Tribal Liaison for the Central District of California. Coordinated all tribal issues involving the United States Attorney's Office arising in the Central District of California.
Served as Immigration Fraud Coordinator.
Headed Department of Justice pilot program designed to effectively prosecute fraud crimes perpetrated against undocumented aliens.
Served as member of Immigration Fraud Task Force.
Served as chairperson of multi-jurisdictional task force targeting fraud perpetrated by immigration consultants and attorneys. Law enforcement members of the task force included representatives from the United States Attorney's Office—Los Angeles County; the District Attorney's Office—City of Los Angeles; the California Attorney General's Office; the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the California State Bar. Full task force also included non-law enforcement groups, including the Mexican American Bar Association, the Coalition for Human Rights, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and a US Immigration Courts judge.
Central District of California-Civil Division Los Angeles, California Assistant United States Attorney
Civil litigation defending the United States of America
Argued cases involving allegations of torts, constitutional torts and Title VII violations.
Areas of litigation included:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA):
Defended US Navy in environmental protection suit brought by community activists to halt demolition of former Long Beach Naval Station. Prevailed in District Court, on appeal to Ninth Circuit. (Howser v. City of Long Beach, et al)
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA):
Defended civil action brought by Hasidic inmate against the Federal Bureau of Prisons for injunctive relief involving 200 religious accommodations under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Won summary judgment on all but five accommodations. Case settled after trial. Received Special Service Award September 14, 1998, for work on this litigation. (Rabbi Low v. Warden)
Indian law:
Brought actions for injunctive relief, declaratory relief and asset forfeiture against nine Indian tribes operating large-scale casinos. Court granted judgment for the United States and ordered cessation of gaming at the casinos. Ninth Circuit stayed injunction. (United States v. Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians, et al)
Coordinated statewide litigation with other districts and the Department of Justice regarding such gaming. Case mooted by the passage of Proposition 1A.
Represented Indian allottees in eminent domain case (City of Palm Springs v. 16.88 Acres of Land)
Morrison & Foerster (Hufstedler & Kaus - firms merged in 1995) Los Angeles, California Litigation Associate
Areas of litigation included:
Legal Malpractice:
Defended $7 million legal malpractice allegation brought against former city attorney by a municipality. (City of Baldwin Park v. Greenberg, Glusker, et al.) Won major motion. Case settled.
Corporate/Entertainment:
Head Associate in defense of $1.4 billion fraud lawsuit (MGM v Tracinda, et al.) Obtained favorable judgment on the pleadings. Won case.
Handled appeal of conspiracy to commit fraud suit brought by television show creator against syndicator. (Kidron v. Claster Television). Won appeal in unanimous decision.
Securities Fraud:
Defended client in $100 million class-action securities fraud litigation. (In re ZZZZ Best Securities Litigation) Case settled.
Estates:
Defended $50 million action brought by estate of deceased against surviving spouse. (In the Matter of the Estate of Neenah Minerva Rosenberg, Decedent)
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