Washington DC Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The district where politics is the docket - public corruption, lobbying and FARA cases, contractor fraud, and the investigations the country argues about - tried at the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse.
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.
The government’s hometown docket.
The District of Columbia’s federal court tries the cases Washington generates: public corruption and bribery, FARA and lobbying-disclosure prosecutions, congressional-investigation referrals (contempt, false statements), leak and Espionage Act cases, and the contractor fraud of the world’s largest procurement economy. Its U.S. Attorney’s office - uniquely - also prosecutes local crime, making it the largest such office in the country.
The D.C. Circuit upstairs shapes administrative and separation-of-powers law for the nation; the jury pool is government-fluent; and cases here run under press scrutiny as intense as Manhattan’s - a dynamic this firm knows from home. When the matter is political-adjacent, media strategy and defense strategy have to move together, and we run both.
Federal defense lawyers in Washington DC, where politics is the docket.
The government’s hometown court.
The District of Columbia’s federal court tries what Washington generates: public corruption and bribery, FARA and lobbying files, congressional-referral cases - contempt, false statements - leak and Espionage Act prosecutions, and the contractor fraud of the world’s largest procurement economy. Its U.S. Attorney’s office is the country’s largest, and the D.C. Circuit upstairs shapes national law as a matter of routine.
What you’re actually up against.
Prosecutors who handle the country’s most political cases without blinking. A government-fluent jury pool. Press scrutiny as intense as Manhattan’s - starting before arraignment. And in the political-adjacent files, a truth most firms learn too late: media strategy and defense strategy have to move together, or both fail.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. High-profile defense is this firm’s native habitat - the Sorokin trial, the Maxwell juror inquiry, the analyst chair on Fox and CNN when federal cases break. The cameras were already outside our courtrooms. Washington is a shuttle flight from headquarters, with local counsel where required - and our Virginia rocket-docket practice next door.
The clock is already running.
A congressional referral. A FARA letter. An OIG interview request. In this city the story breaks before the indictment does - be represented before either. 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 Washington DC as everywhere else. Washington is a shuttle flight or train from our New York headquarters; we appear in the District of Columbia with local counsel where required - and the state page for our Virginia rocket-docket work is one click away. 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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