Minnesota Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Home of the largest pandemic-fraud prosecution in America - a district that turned program fraud into its signature, alongside healthcare cases and a Fortune-500 white collar docket.
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 district.
Where program fraud became the headline.
Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney charged the Feeding Our Future case - the largest COVID-era fraud prosecution in the country, hundreds of millions in federal child-nutrition funds - and the district’s program-fraud practice has defined itself around it: dozens of defendants, juror-tampering headlines, and trials still rolling through the calendar. The message for anyone under investigation here is simple: this office builds big conspiracy cases and tries them.
The rest of the docket: healthcare fraud from the medical-device and insurer economy (UnitedHealth’s home turf), Fortune-500 white collar matters, fentanyl conspiracies on the I-94 corridor, and Eighth Circuit law - mechanical on guidelines, strict on suppression - governing the fights.
Federal defense lawyers in Minnesota, after Feeding Our Future.
The biggest pandemic-fraud case in America.
Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney charged Feeding Our Future - hundreds of millions in federal child-nutrition money, dozens of defendants, juror-tampering headlines, trials still running. It remade the district’s identity: this office builds sprawling conspiracy cases and tries them. Around it: healthcare fraud from the device-and-insurer economy, Fortune-500 white collar files, fentanyl on I-94.
What you’re actually up against.
Program-fraud prosecutors with subpoenaed spreadsheets three years deep. Cooperators trading testimony for years. Eighth Circuit law - mechanical on guidelines, strict on suppression. In multi-defendant program cases, your outcome is shaped by other people’s choices weekly - unless your lawyer moves you out of the pack early: severance, role, attribution, or the exit the government offers the prepared.
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.
Minneapolis is a direct flight from either office, and we appear in the District of Minnesota with local counsel where required. Program-fraud defense at conspiracy scale is precisely what the whole-bench model exists for.
The clock is already running.
If your nonprofit, site, or signature appears anywhere in a program file, assume the chart exists. The window is before your box gets drawn - not after. 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 Minnesota as everywhere else. Minneapolis is a direct flight from either office; we appear in the District of Minnesota 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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