Vermont Federal Criminal Lawyers.
A quiet district with loud cases - the Jay Peak EB-5 fraud was the largest of its kind in history, the Canadian border feeds smuggling counts, and appeals run to this firm’s home circuit.
Netflix told the story. The defense was ours.
When Shonda Rhimes built Inventing Anna, the defense at its center was Todd Spodek’s - argued for the so-called fake heiress in a Manhattan courtroom long before Arian Moayed of Succession played him on screen. What 320 million hours of viewers watched is the method every client of this firm gets, in every federal district.
The record, dated and sourced.
The district.
Small docket, landmark cases.
Vermont’s federal court tried the Jay Peak scandal - hundreds of millions in EB-5 investor funds misapplied across Northeast Kingdom projects, the largest EB-5 fraud prosecution in the program’s history - and the district’s fraud calendar still carries its aftershocks. The Canadian border generates smuggling and cross-border movement cases; the I-89/I-91 corridors carry New England’s fentanyl pipeline north.
The strategic fact for any Vermont defendant: this district sits in the Second Circuit - the law governing your case is the law made in the Manhattan courthouse this firm calls home, and briefing it is our daily work.
Federal defense lawyers in Vermont, quiet district, landmark cases.
Jay Peak set the scale.
Vermont’s federal court tried the largest EB-5 fraud in the program’s history - hundreds of millions in investor funds misapplied across Northeast Kingdom projects - and the fraud calendar still carries its aftershocks. The Canada border adds smuggling files; I-89 and I-91 carry New England’s fentanyl north; and the district’s size means every serious case gets senior attention.
What you’re actually up against.
Cross-border task forces. Investor-fraud prosecutors who learned on a nine-figure case. And one strategic fact worth more than the rest: Vermont sits in the Second Circuit. The law governing your case is made in the Manhattan courthouse this firm calls home - briefed by us, weekly, for years.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Over 50 years of combined experience. Thousands of federal cases since 1976, second generation. The Sorokin defense became a Netflix series. The R. Kelly witness matter made the AP wire. When federal cases break, the press calls this firm - and prosecutors know exactly which defense lawyers try cases. It changes every conversation about yours.
Burlington is an hour’s flight or a morning’s drive from headquarters - home-circuit treatment, local counsel where required. Investor-fraud and border-file defense both run on doctrine we live in.
The clock is already running.
An investor demand letter. A border secondary that went long. A subpoena for the project accounts. Vermont files are few enough that each one gets the government’s full attention - get yours. The consultation is free. It’s confidential. It’s answered 24/7 - 212 300 5196. The government has a head start. Stop giving it a bigger one.
Any district is home ground.
Federal procedure is national - the same rules, the same guidelines, the same DOJ playbook in Vermont as everywhere else. Burlington is an hour’s flight or a morning’s drive from New York; D. Vt. matters get home-circuit treatment with local counsel where required. Admission is handled by pro hac vice motion with local counsel where required, the client portal keeps every document and conversation in one place across any distance, and the person standing up in court is the lawyer you hired - not a referral.
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Todd A. Spodek is a second-generation trial lawyer whose defense of Anna Delvey became Netflix's Inventing Anna. He appears on Fox News and CNN as a legal analyst, authored "My Advice to Diddy" in The Spectator, and is quoted by the Associated Press when the biggest federal cases break. The record behind the profile: a complete acquittal in a $26M money-laundering trial, RICO charges carrying a 10-year minimum dismissed, and 6 months on a $12M Ponzi case.
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Who we are, how we work, and why clients nationwide trust us with their future - in under a minute.
Why this firm.
Five decades of federal courtrooms. Whatever the government has charged, this firm has defended it before.
No allegiance to U.S. Attorneys, agents, or agencies. The client is the only constituency.
Every district in the country, one client portal - documents, invoices, counsel, in real time.
We decline more federal matters than we accept - and every accepted case gets the whole bench.
The first 72 hours decide the next 72 weeks.
No interviews, no consents, no explaining, no deleting. The words said in hour zero are the exhibits at trial. Write down what was asked and by whom - then stop.
Privilege attaches, facts get mapped while memory is fresh, documents get preserved the right way, and nobody in your orbit talks to agents unrepresented again.
We contact the government as your counsel: target, subject, or witness gets confirmed, deadlines get calendared, and the defense - not the investigation - sets the tempo.
How your case unfolds.
THE FULL PROCESS →Risk-free, in person or by phone. Ask anything, for as long as it takes. Strategy starts the same day.
Subpoenaed inboxes and a drawn timeline - we engage prosecutors at the target-letter stage, where charging is still a choice.
Suppress the overbroad seizure, contest intended loss, redraw the timeline - and when trial is the advantage, intent gets tried on the whole inbox, not the excerpts.
On the record, on the wire.
Get ahead of the case.
Answered within 24 hours, guaranteed. Some stories are better told out loud -
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