Michigan Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Detroit’s healthcare-fraud strike force, auto-industry and supplier fraud, a corruption docket that never empties, and an international border in the middle of a metro area.
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.
Strike-force country.
Detroit hosts one of the original Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, and the Eastern District’s healthcare docket - home health, pharmacy, physician kickbacks - has produced some of the country’s largest billing prosecutions. Around it: public corruption from city hall to the suburbs (a docket that has reached mayors, councilmembers, and union leadership), auto-industry cases (supplier kickbacks, emissions and safety certifications, UAW-adjacent prosecutions), and the Ambassador Bridge’s border docket - smuggling, export violations, and cross-border money movement.
The Western District runs leaner: fraud out of Grand Rapids’ manufacturing economy, drug conspiracies on the I-94/I-96 corridors, and Sixth Circuit law over both districts.
Federal defense lawyers in Michigan, strike-force country.
Detroit built the healthcare strike force.
One of the original Medicare Fraud Strike Forces sits in Detroit, and the Eastern District’s billing prosecutions - home health, pharmacy, physician kickbacks - are among the largest ever charged. Around them: a corruption docket that never empties (city hall to the suburbs, councilmembers to union leadership), auto-industry cases, and an international border in the middle of a metro area. The Western District runs Grand Rapids’ fraud and the I-94 corridors.
What you’re actually up against.
Billing analytics that flagged your practice before anyone complained. Cooperators wearing wires into union halls and clinics. Border teams working the Ambassador Bridge. Sixth Circuit review with an active sentencing-appeal docket. Strike-force cases are volume cases - and volume cases have seams: attribution, intent, the difference between sloppy billing and fraud. We litigate the seams.
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.
Detroit is a ninety-minute flight from New York, and we appear in both Michigan districts with local counsel where required. Strike-force defense is exactly the practice this firm runs in Miami and Houston - Michigan gets the same team.
The clock is already running.
The audit that went silent. The employee who got a subpoena. The billing consultant who stopped calling back. Strike-force cases announce themselves - answer before the indictment does. 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 Michigan as everywhere else. Detroit is a ninety-minute flight from New York; we appear in both Michigan 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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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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