Louisiana Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Public corruption as a civic tradition, disaster-fraud waves after every storm, port-driven drug importation, and three districts under a Fifth Circuit that sits in the French Quarter.
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.
Corruption cases with a port attached.
New Orleans federal court has convicted congressmen, mayors, and a governor - public corruption is the district’s signature, prosecuted by an office that knows the genre cold. Around it: healthcare fraud in volume (home health and hospice cases especially), the port’s importation docket feeding § 841 conspiracies and MDLEA maritime cases, and the disaster-fraud wave that follows every hurricane - FEMA, insurance, and contractor prosecutions that spike for years after each storm.
Baton Rouge works the capital’s corruption and the petrochemical corridor’s fraud; the Western District carries oilfield economy cases and I-20/I-49 trafficking. All of it appeals to the Fifth Circuit - strict, fast, and sitting in the same city as the Eastern District’s courthouse.
Federal defense lawyers in Louisiana, corruption with a port attached.
New Orleans prosecutes its own history.
Congressmen. Mayors. A governor. Public corruption is the Eastern District’s signature, and the office knows the genre cold. Around it: healthcare fraud in volume - home health and hospice especially - the port’s importation docket, MDLEA maritime cases from far offshore, and the disaster-fraud wave that follows every hurricane for years. Baton Rouge works the capital; the Western District runs oilfield fraud and the I-20 corridor.
What you’re actually up against.
Wired cooperators in the corruption files. Billing data in the healthcare ones. And the Fifth Circuit - fast, strict, and sitting blocks from the Eastern District’s own courthouse. Louisiana juries have watched officials fall for generations; they convict without ceremony. The cases that end well here end early, in charging decisions and presentations most defendants never knew were possible.
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.
New Orleans is a direct flight from New York, and we appear across all three Louisiana districts with local counsel where required. Corruption defense, healthcare defense, forfeiture fights - the practice matches this docket precisely.
The clock is already running.
A grand jury subpoena for your agency’s contracts. An auditor’s referral after the storm money. Agents at the clinic. The file is being assembled now - so is your defense, or it isn’t. 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 Louisiana as everywhere else. New Orleans is a direct flight from New York; we appear across all three Louisiana 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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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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