FEDERAL MONEY LAUNDERING AND WIRE FRAUD (MULTIPLE COUNTS)
FACTS: Client, while working as an executive for a pharmaceutical company illegal routed over $1,000,000 in company funds to a personal account in another state during the COVID pandemic. He subsequently used much of the illegally obtained proceeds to purchase a house for his family. Client was looking at up to 80 years in prison as well as a criminal forfeiture where the U.S. government would have taken his primary residence, leaving his wife and two children homeless.
RESULT: Attorney Brett Schwartz, through extensive negotiation with the government was able to save his home from governmental forfeiture and convince the court to a sentence well below his Federal sentencing guidelines, over the governments objection.
