Brian T. Rafferty

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Brian Rafferty is an experienced trial lawyer, former federal prosecutor and federal criminal defense attorney. He focuses on the representation of individuals, business executives, health care professionals and corporate clients in white collar criminal investigations, prosecutions and enforcement proceedings. His national federal criminal defense spans an array of industries, including health care, government contracting and financial industries, and includes investigations and prosecutions of allegations of health care fraud, government procurement fraud, securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, bribery, public corruption and money laundering.

While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Georgia, Brian directed a staff of 25 assistant U.S. attorneys, contractors and support staff, actively managing and supervising all criminal prosecutions in the District. For the last three years, he served as the 11th Circuit representative on the Criminal Chiefs Working Group, providing counsel and input to the Attorney General’s Advisory Counsel on a variety of issues related to federal criminal prosecutions. Prior to that, Brian also served as the office’s Criminal Healthcare Fraud Coordinator for several years, where he supervised investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) into a variety of health care offenses, including investigations involving medical practitioners, pharmacies, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.