San Antonio Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The Western District’s biggest division - military-city procurement fraud, I-35 trafficking between the border and Dallas, and healthcare cases from the medical-center economy.
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 courthouse.
Military city, corridor city.
San Antonio’s federal docket reflects its two identities. Military City USA generates procurement and contractor fraud around Joint Base San Antonio, TRICARE and VA billing cases, and the occasional espionage-adjacent matter. The I-35 corridor - the border’s main artery north - supplies trafficking conspiracies charged from interdiction stops and wiretaps, with the district’s border divisions feeding related cases upstream.
The medical-center economy adds healthcare fraud in volume, and Fifth Circuit law governs with its fast docket. The Western District’s judges run efficient courtrooms where prepared counsel gets taken seriously immediately - and the opposite gets remembered.
Federal defense lawyers in San Antonio, military city, corridor city.
Two identities, one docket.
Military City USA generates procurement and contractor fraud around Joint Base San Antonio, TRICARE and VA billing cases, and clearance-adjacent files. The I-35 corridor - the border’s main artery north - supplies trafficking conspiracies from interdiction stops and wiretaps. The medical-center economy adds healthcare fraud in volume. San Antonio’s federal courthouse works all of it, efficiently.
What you’re actually up against.
DCIS and VA-OIG investigators who know the contracting world from inside. Interdiction teams that work I-35 daily. Fifth Circuit review - fast and strict. And in the clearance files, a second sentence no judge announces: the career. We defend the counts and the clearance together, because losing either loses both.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Direct flights from both offices, appearances across the Western District with local counsel where required, and a practice built for exactly this mix: contractor fraud, healthcare, corridor drug files. Prepared counsel gets taken seriously immediately in this courthouse. That’s what shows up.
The clock is already running.
A DCIS interview request. A suspended facility badge. A trooper’s search on I-35. Each one is the same message: the federal clock started without you. 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 San Antonio as everywhere else. San Antonio is a direct flight from both offices; we appear across the Western District of Texas 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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Who we are, how we work, and why clients nationwide trust us with their future - in under a minute.
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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