Vigorous Defense for Complex White-Collar Crime Investigations in East Texas
When your career, reputation, and freedom are on the line, you need a defense team with the sophistication to handle complex financial allegations.
Fighting the Paper Trail
White-collar crime allegations are not about street fights or bar brawls; they are about navigating a maze of documents, digital records, and complex financial transactions. These cases are often investigated for months or even years by state and federal agencies like the FBI, IRS, and SEC before charges are ever filed. If you are under investigation or have been charged with a white-collar crime in East Texas, you need an attorney who can get involved immediately to protect your rights, manage the investigation, and begin building a strategic defense.
Defending Professionals and Businesses in East Texas
Our firm provides discreet, sophisticated defense for individuals and businesses facing all types of white-collar allegations, including:
Fraud
Including allegations of mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, healthcare fraud (Medicare/Medicaid), and insurance fraud. The government must prove a deliberate scheme to defraud someone of money or property.
Embezzlement & Theft
The unlawful taking of assets by a person to whom they were entrusted. These cases often arise in an employment context and involve complex accounting issues.
Money Laundering
The process of making illegally-gained proceeds appear legal. These charges are often attached to other underlying criminal allegations like drug trafficking or fraud.
Tax Evasion & Tax Fraud
Allegations of intentionally underreporting income or falsifying information on state or federal tax returns, often investigated by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.
A Threat to Your Entire Way of Life
While non-violent, white-collar convictions carry severe penalties. A federal conviction can result in years in prison, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and restitution, and the loss of professional licenses. A conviction can permanently destroy a career and a reputation built over a lifetime. Our goal is to intervene early and aggressively to prevent that from happening.
Our Defense Strategy: Deconstructing the Government's Case
The government's case in a white-collar crime is often built on a mountain of documents and digital data. Our job is to climb that mountain and find the weaknesses.
Challenging Criminal Intent
This is the cornerstone of most white-collar defenses. The government must prove you acted willfully and with fraudulent intent. We work to show that the actions were the result of a mistake, a misunderstanding of complex regulations, or reliance on the advice of other professionals, not a deliberate scheme to defraud.
Conducting Our Own Financial Investigation
We do not rely on the government's interpretation of the evidence. We work with a network of forensic accountants and financial experts to conduct our own independent analysis of the records, often uncovering exculpatory evidence or alternative explanations that the government ignored.
Attacking Illegal Searches and Seizures
Government agents must follow strict constitutional rules when obtaining financial records, emails, and other private data. We scrutinize every subpoena and search warrant for defects that could lead to the suppression of key evidence.
Early Intervention with Prosecutors
Whenever possible, we engage with prosecutors during the investigation phase, before charges are filed. By presenting our own evidence and legal arguments, we can sometimes persuade the government to decline prosecution altogether or to agree to a much less serious resolution.
Sophisticated Representation Across East Texas
Our firm provides high-level white-collar crime defense for clients in state and federal courts throughout East Texas, including:
Longview
Tyler
Marshall
Kilgore
Henderson
Gilmer
Texarkana
Easter District of Texas
Gregg County
Smith County
Harrison County
Rusk County
Upshur County
Panola County
Wood County
...and beyond.
Protect Your Reputation. Protect Your Freedom.
If you are being investigated or have been charged with a white-collar crime, it is critical to have experienced legal counsel on your side immediately. Contact us for a discreet and confidential consultation.