Maryland Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Spodek Law Group defends clients in one district with two very different dockets - Baltimore’s corruption and violent-crime initiatives, and the federal-contractor economy and NIH-corridor healthcare fraud of the Washington suburbs.
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.
One district, two economies.
Baltimore’s federal docket carries the city’s story: public-corruption prosecutions that have reached mayors and police commanders, violent-crime and firearms initiatives that adopt state gun cases in volume, and the port’s trafficking calendar. Greenbelt works the other Maryland - procurement and contractor fraud out of the federal economy, healthcare and research-grant cases along the NIH/FDA corridor, and white collar files with security-clearance consequences attached.
Fourth Circuit law governs - historically government-friendly, with a sentencing-appeal docket that rewards preserved objections - and the U.S. Attorney’s office coordinates closely with the D.C. offices next door, which matters when conduct crosses the district line.
Federal defense lawyers in Maryland, two dockets in one district.
Baltimore’s cases, Greenbelt’s cases.
Baltimore’s federal courthouse carries the city’s story: corruption prosecutions that have reached mayors and police commanders, violent-crime initiatives adopting gun cases in volume, the port’s trafficking calendar. Greenbelt works the other Maryland: contractor and procurement fraud from the federal economy, healthcare and research-grant cases along the NIH corridor, files with security clearances hanging over them.
What you’re actually up against.
A U.S. Attorney’s office that coordinates with Washington’s next door. Fourth Circuit review - historically the government’s favorite - which moves the defense leverage early: charging talks, element fights, preserved objections. In the clearance-adjacent files, the real sentence is often professional: the job, the facility access, the career. We defend those alongside the counts.
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.
Baltimore and Greenbelt are an Amtrak ride from headquarters - same-week appearances, local counsel where required. Corruption, guns, and contractor-fraud defense are all standing practice here.
The clock is already running.
An OIG interview request. A suspension of facility access. A subpoena for the contract file. Maryland cases telegraph - and the telegraph is the window. 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 Maryland as everywhere else. Baltimore and Greenbelt are an Amtrak ride from New York; Maryland matters get same-week appearances 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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