Colorado Federal Criminal Lawyers.
One district, its courthouse two blocks from the circuit that reviews it - securities and investment fraud out of Denver’s money economy, drug conspiracies off I-70 and I-25, and a cannabis industry that keeps generating federal edge cases.
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.
Money cases in the money economy.
Denver’s federal docket skews financial: investment and securities fraud out of the region’s capital and energy economies, Ponzi and crypto schemes charged as wire fraud, and PPP prosecutions still rolling through. The cannabis industry adds a uniquely Colorado genre - state-legal businesses generating federal exposure through banking, § 280E tax positions, and money-transmission theories the government tests here first.
The drug docket runs on I-70 and I-25 interdiction plus parcel cases, with the Tenth Circuit’s suppression law setting the terms - and firearms adoptions and Bruen litigation fill out the calendar.
Federal defense lawyers in Colorado, money cases at altitude.
Denver’s docket is a money docket.
Investment fraud from the capital and energy economies. Ponzi and crypto schemes charged as wire fraud. PPP files still cycling through the Arraj courthouse. And a genre Colorado invented: state-legal cannabis businesses with federal exposure - banking access, § 280E tax positions, money-transmission theories the government tests here first. Legal in Colorado has never meant legal to Washington.
What you’re actually up against.
FBI and IRS-CI financial squads with your subpoenaed records already indexed. I-70 interdiction under the Tenth Circuit’s exacting stop law. And the circuit itself two blocks from the district courthouse - appellate review is a neighbor here. Objections get preserved from day one or they get lost forever. We build records like the appeal already exists. Because functionally, it does.
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.
Denver is a direct flight from either office, and we appear in the District of Colorado with local counsel where required. Securities and crypto defense practiced against the SEC’s and DOJ’s best travels well - document wars are won by teams that read everything, and that’s what the whole bench is for.
The clock is already running.
Investment cases surface early - an SEC inquiry, a receiver’s letter, investors comparing notes. Declinations and civil resolutions live in that window. Nowhere else. 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 Colorado as everywhere else. Denver is a direct flight from either office; we appear in the District of Colorado with local counsel as required, and the circuit’s proximity makes appeal-aware trial work the default here. 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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