Indiana Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Two districts split at the Kokomo line - Indianapolis’ healthcare and fraud docket in the south, the Gary-Hammond firearms and trafficking corridor in the north, and Seventh Circuit law over all of it.
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 districts.
Healthcare money south, corridor cases north.
Indianapolis anchors the Southern District’s docket: hospital-system and home-health billing fraud, pharmaceutical and device cases from the med-tech economy, PPP prosecutions, and wire fraud out of the logistics industry. The Northern District works the lake corridor - firearms in volume through Gary and Hammond, drug conspiracies moving between Chicago and Detroit on I-80/90, and the task-force cases that ride those interstates.
Both districts sit under Seventh Circuit law - rigorous on appeal, fast on the docket - and both U.S. Attorney’s offices charge § 922(g) adoptions aggressively, which makes prohibited-status and suppression litigation the daily bread of Indiana federal defense.
Federal defense lawyers in Indiana, north and south of the line.
Two districts, two different fights.
Indianapolis runs the Southern District’s money docket: hospital-system billing fraud, med-tech and pharma cases from the Lilly corridor, PPP files, logistics wire fraud. The Northern District works the lakefront - firearms in volume through Gary and Hammond, drug conspiracies riding I-80/90 between Chicago and Detroit. Same state, entirely different caseloads. Your courthouse decides your fight.
What you’re actually up against.
HHS-OIG data in the healthcare files. ATF adoptions that turn a state gun arrest into ten years of federal exposure overnight. And the Seventh Circuit over both districts - fast, exacting, and unforgiving about arguments nobody preserved. Indiana cases reward lawyers who build the record from week one. They punish everyone else.
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.
Indianapolis and the northern courthouses are a short reach through Chicago, and we appear in both Indiana districts with local counsel where required.
The clock is already running.
A records subpoena to your practice. An ATF agent asking about a gun you thought was a state matter. Both mean the same thing: it’s federal now, and the early window is open. 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 Indiana as everywhere else. Indianapolis and the northern division courthouses are a short flight or a drive from Chicago’s hub; we appear in both Indiana 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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