Prior to joining McDermott, Ted spent nine years at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, serving most recently as Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. In that capacity, Ted supervised a team of approximately twenty senior prosecutors, overseeing some of the Office’s most sensitive and high-profile matters, including those involving fraud and financial crimes, the FCPA and the domestic bribery statutes, the campaign finance laws, and the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Notable matters that Ted supervised include the investigation of attorney to the former president Rudolph Giuliani and the prosecutions of former Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, former presidential advisor Stephen K. Bannon, financier Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and attorney Michael Avenatti.

At the US Attorney’s Office, Ted also served in its Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit, leading investigations and prosecutions of both corporations and individuals for a wide variety of financial crimes, including violations of the BSA, US sanctions laws, and domestic and international money laundering offenses. Ted also handled significant civil and criminal asset forfeiture matters and spearheaded domestic and international asset recovery efforts. As an Assistant US Attorney, Ted also led investigations focused on healthcare fraud, misbranding and the unlawful distribution of oxycodone and other controlled substances, including matters involving wholesale distributors, pharmacies, and healthcare providers.

An experienced trial and appellate advocate, Ted has successfully tried ten jury trials to verdict and briefed or argued more than a dozen cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Prior to joining the US Attorney’s Office, Ted clerked for the Hon. Debra Ann Livingston, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for the Hon. Sidney H. Stein, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.  He was an Articles & Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal.

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• Convicted two business owners, after jury trial, of operating a $100 million unlicensed money remitting and internal money laundering scheme through their corporate front. *
• Led investigation into international bank’s processing of $1 billion in transactions that violated US sanctions law and related violations of the BSA, resulting in corporate indictment, two-year deferred prosecution agreement. *
• Led international efforts to freeze and recoup, through civil forfeiture actions, nearly $100 million obtained through fraud from a Fortune 100 company. *
• Convicted owner of pharmaceutical distribution company for $100 million misbranding, healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme *
• Convicted pharmacy owners and operators of unlawful oxycodone distribution and money laundering scheme after three-week jury trial. *

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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