New York Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The headquarters state - four districts including the two most consequential federal courthouses in America, and the firm’s home: 85 Broad Street stands blocks from both of them. This is where the practice was built.
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.
The center of the federal universe.
The Southern District of New York calls itself the Mother Court and prosecutes like it: securities and commodities fraud from Wall Street, sanctions and FCPA cases with global reach, crypto’s biggest prosecutions, public corruption, and the celebrity dockets the world watches. The Eastern District across the bridge runs organized crime, trafficking through JFK, securities cases of its own, and trials - Brooklyn juries decide more high-profile federal cases than almost any courthouse in America.
This firm was built in these two buildings: the Sorokin trial that became Inventing Anna, the Maxwell juror inquiry, the R. Kelly witness matter, thousands of matters since 1976. Upstate, the Northern District works state-capital corruption from Albany while the Western District carries the Canadian border’s smuggling and the region’s fraud calendar - and the whole state appeals to the Second Circuit at Foley Square, the most influential criminal-law circuit in the country and this firm’s daily companion.
Federal defense lawyers in New York, the home court.
The center of the federal universe.
The Southern District calls itself the Mother Court and prosecutes like it: Wall Street, sanctions, crypto’s biggest collapses, the celebrity dockets the world watches. The Eastern District across the bridge tries organized crime, JFK trafficking, and the cases Brooklyn juries decide with the country watching. Upstate, Albany works state-capital corruption while Buffalo runs the border. Four districts. One Second Circuit. And this firm’s offices in the middle of all of it.
What you’re actually up against.
The most credentialed prosecutors in the profession, building cases for years before you hear a word. Cooperators everywhere. Press pressure that starts before arraignment. And the Second Circuit’s doctrine - made blocks from our office - governing every fight. In New York, the government’s head start is measured in grand jury months. The answer is a defense that starts the hour you call.
Why Spodek Law Group.
This is where the practice was built. Todd Spodek is a second-generation New York federal lawyer - thousands of matters since 1976, offices at 85 Broad Street, Brooklyn, and Midtown. The Sorokin trial became Inventing Anna. The Maxwell juror inquiry made the Post. The R. Kelly witness matter made the AP wire. When the caption reads United States v. You in a New York courthouse, you want the firm the press already calls - because the prosecutors already know it.
The clock is already running.
S.D.N.Y. and E.D.N.Y. investigations are mature before they surface. A subpoena, a proffer invitation, an agent’s card under the door - each means the file is thick already. 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.
This is the home court.
The firm’s headquarters at 85 Broad Street stands ten minutes’ walk from 500 Pearl Street and one subway stop from Cadman Plaza - S.D.N.Y. and E.D.N.Y. are not districts we travel to; they are the buildings where this practice lives. Todd Spodek is a second-generation New York federal practitioner; the bench appears in all four New York districts continuously; and the Second Circuit’s case law is the water we swim in. When the caption reads United States v. You in any New York courthouse, the defense you want is the one that calls it home.
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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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