Los Angeles Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The nation’s largest federal district, prosecuted from the First Street courthouse - fraud, crypto, healthcare, and the entertainment-adjacent cases that draw cameras. Our Los Angeles office sits in the middle 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 courthouse.
The volume leader, prosecuted on camera.
The Central District of California is the largest federal district in America, and Los Angeles generates its docket: wire and investment fraud at coastal scale, crypto and NFT prosecutions, healthcare fraud from the clinic economy, entertainment-industry cases (royalty schemes, agent kickbacks, celebrity tax matters), and the money-laundering flows of a global city. The U.S. Attorney’s major-frauds and public-corruption sections staff deep and try cases with the press watching - a dynamic this firm knows from both coasts.
The Ninth Circuit’s defense-friendly suppression and Second Amendment doctrine governs, and the district’s size means judicial assignment matters enormously - knowledge that comes only from appearing here, which we do from our own office at 611 Wilshire Boulevard.
Federal defense lawyers in Los Angeles, from our own office at 611 Wilshire.
The nation’s largest district, prosecuted on camera.
The Central District of California is the biggest federal district in America, and Los Angeles fills its docket: wire and investment fraud at coastal scale, crypto and NFT prosecutions, clinic-economy healthcare fraud, entertainment-industry cases - royalty schemes, agent kickbacks, celebrity tax files - and the laundering flows of a global city. The U.S. Attorney’s major-frauds section tries cases with the press watching. So do we. It’s our natural habitat.
What you’re actually up against.
Strike-force staffing on the healthcare files. SEC and state parallel proceedings running alongside the criminal case. Judicial assignments that genuinely change outcomes in a district this size - knowledge you only get by appearing here. And Ninth Circuit law: the most defense-engaged suppression doctrine in the country, wasted on lawyers who process instead of litigate.
Why Spodek Law Group.
Because C.D. Cal. is a home court. Our Los Angeles office at 611 Wilshire puts the team minutes from First Street - same-day MDC visits, appearances without a flight, and Chad Lewin’s twenty-three years of LA courtrooms on the bench. The founder-fraud argument - the line between vision and deception - is this firm’s signature; the country watched it work when Netflix dramatized the Sorokin defense. New York standard, Pacific time, whole bench on every accepted case.
The clock is already running.
A grand jury subpoena from downtown. A clinic audit. A crypto exchange freeze. LA files run quiet until they run loud - get ahead of the loud part. 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.
The western office is here.
Spodek Law Group’s Los Angeles office at 611 Wilshire Boulevard makes C.D. Cal. a home district: same-day attorney visits at MDC Los Angeles, appearances at First Street without a flight, and Chad Lewin’s twenty-three years of LA courtroom knowledge on the bench. New York standard, Pacific time - and the whole firm behind every accepted case.
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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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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 -
212 300 5196