Austin Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The tech-boom division - crypto and startup fraud joining the capital’s corruption docket and the I-35 corridor - in a courthouse whose calendar grew with the city.
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 courthouse.
Startup money meets a state capital.
Austin’s migration boom brought coastal fraud genres to the Western District: crypto and token prosecutions, investor-deception cases from the startup economy, and wire fraud at tech-money scale. The capital adds public-corruption and state-agency fraud files, and I-35 keeps the division inside the border corridor’s trafficking flow.
Fifth Circuit law governs - fast and consequential - and the division’s docket mixes conveyor-speed drug cases with document-heavy fraud trials, which rewards counsel fluent in both tempos.
Federal defense lawyers in Austin, boom-town cases.
Startup money meets a state capital.
Austin’s migration boom brought coastal fraud genres to the Western District: crypto and token prosecutions, investor-deception cases from the startup economy, wire fraud at tech-money scale. The capital adds corruption and state-agency files. I-35 keeps the division inside the border corridor’s trafficking flow. A docket that was sleepy a decade ago now runs two tempos at once - and defendants get caught between them.
What you’re actually up against.
Prosecutors learning crypto as fast as the founders did - and charging it as plain wire fraud when in doubt. SEC parallel tracks on the token files. Conveyor-speed drug cases sharing a calendar with document-war fraud trials. Fifth Circuit review over everything: fast, textualist, consequential. Austin rewards counsel fluent in both tempos. That fluency is rare here. We import it.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. The founder-fraud argument - vision versus deception - is this firm’s signature; Netflix dramatized it working. Crypto defense, SEC parallel-proceeding management, and trial reputation, direct flights from both offices, local counsel where required.
The clock is already running.
A token-holder demand letter. An SEC inquiry. Agents asking your co-founder about the pitch deck. Austin cases start as emails - and end as captions unless someone moves. 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 Austin as everywhere else. Austin is a direct flight from both offices; we appear in the Western District of Texas 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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