Maine Federal Criminal Lawyers.
One district from Kittery to the Canadian border - drug importation up I-95, fisheries enforcement unique to the working coast, and a small federal bar where preparation is reputation.
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.
The end of I-95, and the start of the cases.
Maine’s drug docket is an importation story: fentanyl and cocaine moving north on I-95 from Massachusetts and New York, charged as conspiracies built on interdiction stops, parcel cases, and cooperating couriers - with out-of-state defendants a constant, which makes multi-district defense coordination routine here. The Canadian border adds smuggling and cross-border counts.
The working coast generates a fisheries-enforcement genre - catch reporting, quota, and Lacey Act cases - and the state’s hospital and benefits systems feed periodic fraud prosecutions. The federal bar is small; judges know every lawyer, and thorough work travels further than theatrics.
Federal defense lawyers in Maine, at the end of I-95.
An importation docket in a small district.
Maine’s drug cases are the interstate’s last chapter: fentanyl and cocaine moving north from Massachusetts and New York, charged as conspiracies from interdiction stops, parcels, and cooperating couriers - with out-of-state defendants a constant. The working coast adds fisheries enforcement almost nowhere else has. The Canada border adds smuggling counts. One district, Portland and Bangor, and a federal bar small enough that thorough work is reputation.
What you’re actually up against.
Task forces that work the corridor daily and know its patterns. First Circuit review - careful, scholarly, procedure-minded - which rewards defense work done precisely. And for the many defendants charged here while living elsewhere: a multi-district life the government exploits unless counsel coordinates it. We do.
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.
Portland is two hours from Boston’s flights, and we appear in the District of Maine with local counsel where required. Corridor cases, parcel litigation, out-of-state coordination - the practice travels north as easily as the pipeline does.
The clock is already running.
If your name is in a courier’s phone or a parcel’s return address, the conspiracy chart already has a box for you. The window is before the box gets a caption. 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 Maine as everywhere else. Portland is a two-hour drive from Boston’s flights; we appear in the District of Maine 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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