Delaware Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The incorporation capital’s federal court - bank fraud out of the credit-card headquarters economy, entity-laundering cases built on Delaware LLCs, and a small district where reputations are made fast.
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.
Where the entities live.
Half the country’s corporations are chartered in Delaware, and the federal docket reflects it: money-laundering and fraud cases built on Delaware LLCs and shell structures, bank fraud out of the credit-card headquarters economy, and securities-adjacent prosecutions that run alongside Chancery’s civil docket. When the government’s theory involves “layers of anonymous entities,” the subpoenas come to Wilmington.
The district is small and professional: a compact bench, a U.S. Attorney’s office that picks cases deliberately, and Third Circuit law - including some of the better privilege and corporate-attorney-client doctrine - governing the fights.
Federal defense lawyers in Delaware, where the entities live.
Half of corporate America is chartered here.
So Delaware’s federal court sees what follows: laundering and fraud theories built on Delaware LLCs, bank fraud from the credit-card headquarters economy, securities cases running parallel to Chancery. When a prosecutor anywhere says “layers of anonymous entities,” the subpoenas route through Wilmington. Sometimes the whole case does.
What you’re actually up against.
A small, deliberate U.S. Attorney’s office that picks its cases - and wins them. FinCEN and IRS-CI entity-tracing that draws your structure chart before anyone knocks. And Third Circuit law with real privilege doctrine, which matters enormously when corporate counsel and personal exposure tangle. In a district this small, reputations form in a single case. Both ways.
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.
Wilmington is an Amtrak ride from headquarters - Delaware gets home-district immediacy with local counsel where required. We read corporate structures the way the government’s forensic accountants do, and we litigate privilege on exactly the circuit doctrine that governs here.
The clock is already running.
Entity cases start with paper: the registered-agent subpoena, the bank records demand. By the time a person gets interviewed, the chart is drawn. Shape how you appear on it - before that interview, not after. 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 Delaware as everywhere else. Wilmington is an Amtrak ride from New York; Delaware matters get handled with the same immediacy as our home districts, 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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