White Collar Criminal Defense

We unearth what you need to know.

As the premier investigative firm for white collar defense practitioners, Nardello & Co. works collaboratively and creatively with defense counsel from the pre-indictment stage through the end of the trial to create investigative strategies designed to challenge the government’s case and bolster defense theories.

When the client’s future is on the line in a criminal case, access to information can mean the difference between acquittal and conviction.

Our professionals have worked on numerous high-stakes and high-profile criminal cases, as well as on a wide range of complex civil matters, including civil RICO, securities fraud, regulatory, money laundering, and libel cases across multiple jurisdictions around the world.

Our work, in connection with the defense of white collar criminal matters, includes:

Collecting evidence and adducing facts in support of defense motions

Conducting background investigations of the government’s cooperating witnesses to impeach their credibility

Identifying, locating, and interviewing potential witnesses

Interviewing confidential sources for background information where public records are unavailable, unhelpful, or non-existent

Investigating credentials of expert witnesses

Tracing and locating assets

Identifying undisclosed links between subjects and witnesses

Testing the government’s theory to see if it is supported by information in the public record or information obtained through confidential sources

Creating alternative theories to counter the government’s theory of prosecution

Providing material for plea negotiation and cross examination

Retrieving and analyzing data files using computer forensic methods

Conducting forensic accounting reviews of financial records

Supporting counsel and jury consultants in jury selection research

In highly public legal proceedings, getting to the truth of the matter requires investigative services that dig deeply.

The Nardello & Co. team includes former US federal prosecutors, former special agents from US law enforcement agencies, seasoned investigators previously with foreign law enforcement agencies, and former forensic accountants and computer forensic specialists with long-standing experience conducting criminal investigations. Our experience includes complex and criminal defense in cases involving charges of insider trading, fraud, and corruption, RICO, money laundering, tax evasion, and other significant, reputation-damaging and criminal enforcement issues.

We work with speed and discretion to get the information you need to mount a successful defense.

White collar crimes involving high-profile individuals are often decided in the court of public opinion before a formal trial even begins. When a public trial garners media attention, it can influence witnesses and cloud the facts. Our white collar investigations team gets ahead of the case and gets the facts from the people closest to it before they have a chance to be influenced by outside actors.

We’re committed to ethically sourcing information that’s usable in a criminal trial.

Information uncovered in a white collar investigation not only has to be accurate, but it must also be usable in court. With a background in federal investigations, the Nardello & Co. team has the experience necessary to find the information that will make a difference in your case. Rather than simply presenting you with our findings, we’ll take the time and effort to analyze information, separate fact from fiction, and ultimately, provide you with evidence that can help you mount a successful defense.

We have a global reach with offices in eight cities.

Matters such as money laundering and RICO investigations often have global consequences. Nardello & Co. maintains offices in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London, Dubai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. We also have field investigators around the world, so we can quickly provide in-depth investigations into these far-reaching matters. Wherever a white collar investigation takes our teams, we have the connections, the language skills, and the local expertise to get the facts in any environment.