New Jersey Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Public corruption as a running genre, pharma and healthcare fraud from the industry’s home state, port trafficking through Newark and Elizabeth - and a district where this firm’s Joseph Alter won a complete acquittal at trial.
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.
Pharma money, port cargo, and politics.
New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney runs one of the country’s largest offices, and its signature genres track the state’s economy: pharmaceutical and healthcare fraud from the industry’s corporate corridor (off-label, kickback, and clinical-data cases), securities and fund fraud spilling over from Manhattan, and public corruption - mayors, senators, and machine figures - as a permanent calendar item. The Port Newark-Elizabeth complex feeds importation conspiracies and cargo-theft prosecutions.
This is home turf: our New Jersey practice runs through Joseph Alter, who tried and won a complete acquittal - not guilty on all counts - in a 2025 New Jersey jury trial, and the office’s proximity to our New York headquarters means D.N.J. matters get same-day attention across all three vicinages.
Federal defense lawyers in New Jersey, home ground.
Pharma money, port cargo, and politics.
The District of New Jersey runs one of the country’s largest U.S. Attorney’s offices, and its docket tracks the state: pharmaceutical and healthcare fraud from the industry’s corporate corridor, securities cases spilling over from Manhattan, port importation through Newark-Elizabeth, and public corruption as a permanent calendar item - mayors, senators, machine figures. Three vicinages: Newark, Trenton, Camden. All of them twenty minutes to two hours from our front door.
What you’re actually up against.
An office big enough to staff cases like the SDNY next door - and close enough to borrow its playbook. Third Circuit review with real privilege doctrine. And in the corruption files, wired cooperators years deep. New Jersey defendants often learn the government’s theory from a newspaper. The prepared ones learned it earlier - from counsel who asked.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. And New Jersey is not a district we travel to; it’s home ground. Joseph Alter tries cases here - in March 2025 he won a complete acquittal, not guilty on all counts, in a New Jersey jury trial. Newark’s courthouse is twenty minutes from our Manhattan headquarters. The whole bench - 50+ years combined, the Netflix defense, the press-row reputation - works every accepted New Jersey case at home-district speed.
The clock is already running.
A target letter from Newark. A subpoena to your practice in Bergen County. An HHS agent at the Cherry Hill office. The first-72-hours protocol applies with no travel discount. 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.
Home ground, literally.
Newark’s federal courthouse is twenty minutes from our Manhattan headquarters, and the firm’s New Jersey practice - anchored by Joseph Alter, admitted in New Jersey and the District of New Jersey - appears across the Newark, Trenton, and Camden vicinages as a home district. The client portal, the whole-bench staffing model, and the 24/7 desk all apply with no travel discount: a D.N.J. target letter gets the same first-72-hours protocol as an S.D.N.Y. one.
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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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