GermanoLawLLC offers extensive experience handling complex and sensitive financial and securities fraud investigations and other white-collar criminal matters at all stages, from a preliminary investigation, through the grand jury process, and complaint, indictment, trial and appellate stages of a case. We advise and represent companies and individuals, and also work with law firms seeking a subject-matter expert, regarding internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense and SEC enforcement actions.
As the former Chief of Economic Crimes for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, and a Federal Prosecutor for 11 years who also previously worked in a large, multi-national law firm based in Manhattan, Judith Germano has significant experience handling all stages of complex financial fraud investigations and prosecutions. She has directed and supervised hundreds of complex, high-stakes federal investigations and prosecutions, including matters involving:
- Securities fraud (insider trading, Ponzi schemes, material misrepresentations and market manipulation)
- Bank, wire and mail fraud
- Employee embezzlement
- Money laundering
- Corporate and individual identity theft
- Computer-related fraud and unlawful access
- Theft of trade secrets and intellectual property
- Credit card fraud
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations
- Healthcare billing fraud
- Accounting and tax fraud
- Corporate and individual identity theft
- Bribery, corruption, abuse of government assets
- Export enforcement and compliance
- Sensitive matters impacting national security