Pennsylvania Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Philadelphia’s corruption-and-union docket, Pittsburgh’s cyber prosecutions with global defendants, and a middle district that tried kids-for-cash - three courts, three specialties, one circuit headquartered in the state.
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.
Three courthouses, three specialties.
Philadelphia’s federal docket carries the city’s political economy: public corruption from city hall to the unions (councilmembers, labor leaders, judges), healthcare fraud from the hospital systems, and violent-crime initiatives adopting gun cases in volume. Pittsburgh built something different: the Western District’s cyber unit pioneered indicting foreign state hackers - the Chinese PLA and Russian GRU indictments came from this courthouse - and its ordinary docket runs dark-web, botnet, and fraud cases with international texture.
The Middle District tried kids-for-cash and keeps a corruption calendar around Harrisburg, plus the I-81 corridor’s trafficking volume. The Third Circuit sits atop the Byrne courthouse in Philadelphia - a circuit with genuinely good privilege and suppression doctrine that rewards technical defense work.
Federal defense lawyers in Pennsylvania, three courthouses, three specialties.
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the middle.
Philadelphia’s federal docket carries the city’s institutions: corruption from city hall to the unions, healthcare fraud from the hospital systems, gun adoptions at volume. Pittsburgh built something different - the cyber unit that indicted Chinese PLA and Russian GRU officers, plus dark-web and ransomware cases with global defendants. The Middle District tried kids-for-cash and keeps a corruption calendar around Harrisburg, with I-81 trafficking underneath.
What you’re actually up against.
In Philadelphia: cooperators years deep in political and union structures. In Pittsburgh: forensic cyber evidence that most defense lawyers cannot read - and we can. Over all of it, the Third Circuit, whose privilege and suppression doctrine is genuinely favorable terrain for technical defense. Pennsylvania cases are won by lawyers who match the district’s specialty. The government certainly does.
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.
Philadelphia is an Amtrak ride from headquarters and Pittsburgh a short flight; we appear in all three Pennsylvania districts with local counsel where required. Corruption, cyber, and healthcare defense - the exact trio this state charges.
The clock is already running.
A union subpoena. A hospital audit. An imaged server. Three different Pennsylvanias, one identical truth: the file is being built now. 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 Pennsylvania as everywhere else. Philadelphia is an Amtrak ride from our New York headquarters and Pittsburgh a short flight; we appear in all three Pennsylvania 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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