Seattle Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Tech-economy fraud, export controls from the aerospace corridor, crypto, and the border’s smuggling docket - the Western District’s flagship courthouse works a global city’s caseload.
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.
A global economy’s criminal calendar.
Seattle’s federal docket tracks its exports: wire and investment fraud from the tech economy, export-control and sanctions prosecutions (aerospace components and semiconductor tech moving to embargoed buyers), crypto cases from the exchange and mining economy, and intellectual-property theft between the giants. The port and the Blaine crossing add smuggling and importation counts; the fishing fleet adds fisheries enforcement.
The district’s cyber unit prosecutes botnet and ransomware cases with international defendants, and Ninth Circuit law governs - active, defense-engaged, and worth briefing well. Amazon-and-Microsoft juries read documents; trials here are document wars.
Federal defense lawyers in Seattle, document wars.
A global economy’s criminal calendar.
Wire and investment fraud from the tech economy. Export-control and sanctions files - aerospace parts and chips moving to embargoed buyers. Crypto cases. IP theft between the giants. The Blaine crossing and the ports add smuggling; the fleet adds fisheries enforcement; JBLM adds military files through Tacoma. Seattle’s federal docket exports as widely as its economy.
What you’re actually up against.
A cyber unit that indicts foreign ransomware crews and reads server logs natively. Export prosecutors fluent in EAR and ITAR. Ninth Circuit review - the most active suppression docket in America. And juries that read documents for a living: Seattle trials are document wars, won by whoever read everything first.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Cyber, export, and crypto defense travel with the bench - and the whole-bench model exists for terabyte cases. Direct flights from both offices, both Washington districts, local counsel where required.
The clock is already running.
A BIS outreach letter. An exchange freeze. A forensic image of your departure laptop. Seattle opens politely and hardens fast - answer while it’s still polite. 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 Seattle as everywhere else. Seattle is a direct flight from both offices; we appear in the Western District of Washington 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 -
212 300 5196