Government Enforcement and White Collar Representative Matters

• Review of Latin America operations of a multinational company for compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"). This investigative and compliance work entailed interviewing hundreds of employees through out nine Latin American countries to determine whether the company's operations places it at risk of violating the FCPA.
• Participation in an SEC investigation of a local financial institution.
• Counseling a financial institution with respect to an FBI investigation against one of its clients. The bank is also suing the target of the investigation. The project includes counseling a bank employee during FBI and prosecutor interviews, and assisting the employee with the Grand Jury presentation.
• Federal jury trial: a financial institution against its insurance company for denial of coverage for loss cause to institution by employees' misconduct.
• Counseling financial group on criminal statutes and potential criminal risks involved in purchasing various hospitals in Puerto Rico.
• Counseling financial institution as to potential criminal liability if it purchased business associated with convicted felon.
• Negotiation with the United States Attorney's Office for return of funds seized from a financial institution as part of a money laundering indictment against various defendants.
• Counseling client with respect to civil lawsuit subpoena received by it requesting SARs and underlying SAR information.
• Negotiation with the United States Attorney's Office for return of funds seized from a bank account belonging to a steel manufacturer.
• Seminar to Hospital Association on health care fraud: powers and limits of federal investigations.
• Defense of hospital group in an investigation conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") for alleged failure to obtain agency's permit for transfer of NRC licenses.
• Investigation of internal fraud scheme committed by supervisor of a food chain.
• Counseling client with respect to local prosecution of person who stole from it. The project included attending the preliminary hearing, and negotiating an agreement with the prosecutor and the potential defendant.
• Counseling client in Commonwealth Department of Justice investigation of entity that allegedly embezzled GDB funds.
• Participation in federal jury trial against shopping mall for alleged security failures.
• Counseling client with respect to applicability of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to operations in Panama.
• Counseling client with respect to possible criminal statutes and compliance regulations applicable to new entity engaged in casino operations without obtaining a casino license.
• Counseling client as to procedure to follow in potential criminal charges.
• Assessment of federal authorities' interest to open investigation against an entity that took bank collateral outside Puerto Rico, without bank's knowledge or permission.
• Counseling client with respect to potential criminal liability resulting from a car accident.
• Counseling client (victim of fraud scheme) as to its rights under the Victim Protection Act to seek restitution in a criminal case of monies lost in scheme carried out by a federal defendant.