Federal Criminal Lawyers

A clean record counts for basically zero under 21 U.S.C. § 841. The statute prescribes the same mandatory minimum for a defendant who has never been arrested as it does for one with three prior felonies. Five years for 500 grams of cocaine. Ten for five kilograms. The judge who is stuck with the sentencing may think the number is wrong, and in a first-offense case the judge o...

A clean record counts for basically zero under 21 U.S.C. § 841. The statute prescribes the same mandatory minimum for a defendant who has never been arrested as it does for one with three prior felonies. Five years for 500 grams of cocaine. Ten for five kilograms. The judge who is stuck with the sentencing may think the number is wrong, and in a first-offense case the judge o...

The most consequential document in a prescriber's career is one page long, and it tends to be presented standing up. DEA Form 104 arrives in person, carried by diversion investigators at the end of an inspection or in the hours after a search, and it offers what the visit has been engineered to make attractive: signature now, silence after, no process. Under 21 C.F.R. § 1301....

Two different people search for a Medicaid fraud lawyer in New York City, and they are not in the same kind of trouble. One is holding a letter from the Human Resources Administration asking her to come in and discuss her case. The other is holding an audit notice from the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, a subpoena from the Attorney Gen...

Dismissal is a courtroom word, and a SNAP trafficking charge spends its first several months nowhere near a courtroom. The charge arrives as a letter from the Food and Nutrition Service, an agency that renamed itself the Food and Nutrition Administration in June 2026, and the letter gives the store ten days to answer for transactions the government spent months assembling. No...