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Provided by David Vicinanzo

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A trial lawyer, David A. Vicinanzo serves a broad array of clients—from Fortune 100 to pro bono—in New England, New York, the Washington, DC, area, and elsewhere. He practices primarily in the area of government investigations and the representation of organizations and individuals in complex civil and criminal matters, and in representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Career

Before joining the firm, I was a federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, and New England for thirteen years. I served in Washington, DC, as an Advisor to the U.S. Attorney General, and as Chief Prosecutor in the campaign finance investigation of the 1996 presidential election. In that position I managed a task force of approximately one hundred attorneys, agents and analysts that interviewed thousands of people, reviewed millions of documents, and obtained the convictions of more than twenty defendants, including John Huang, Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie and Maria Hsia (organizer of the Buddhist Temple matter).

I also served as Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (investigation of U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli), and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. In addition, I served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire, where I managed an office of fifty lawyers, analysts and staff. In this position, I was responsible for all aspects of office management including case development, civil enforcement and criminal prosecutions, agency relations and personnel decisions as well as a substantial litigation caseload.

Previously, I spent ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and five years as Criminal Division Chief. During my tenure as a prosecutor, I tried or supervised hundreds of cases, from securities fraud, FCPA violations, environmental crime and intellectual property infringement to health care fraud, child protection, asset forfeiture, government contract fraud, export violations and major racketeering. These included some of the most difficult and complex cases brought by the USDOJ in the 1990s.

My representative experience includes:

• Outside pro bono counsel to the NH Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence

• New Hampshire state Supreme Court task force on domestic violence

• As a federal prosecutor, initiated and prosecuted the first major organized crime trafficking conspiracy in child sexual abuse images in New England

• Served as a prosecutor for the “Code of Silence” racketeering murders case which led to the RICO convictions of a Boston organized criminal gang for abductions, murders and a dozen armored car and bank heists from Maine to Florida

• Served as a prosecutor for the American Honda Executives case, which resulted in the conviction in federal court of twenty-four former executives or dealers of the American Honda Motor Company nationwide. The New York Times called the case “the biggest commercial bribery case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice”

• Served as a prosecutor for one of the largest drug importation cases in New England, which resulted in twenty convictions, life sentences, and millions of dollars in fines and forfeited drug proceeds and laundered assets

• Managed over fifty prosecutions for bank fraud, bribery, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, and market manipulation arising from numerous large bank failures in New England including the conviction of front-running bank stock trader Charles Howard

• Obtained declinations of criminal prosecution for numerous federal and state officials investigated for alleged campaign finance and election law violations.

• Successful representation of the New Hampshire legislature in decennial redistricting litigation. (See City of Manchester v. Sec'y of State, No. 2012-338, 2012 N.H. LEXIS 81 (N.H. June 19, 2012).

• Successful representation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in judicial discipline matters.

• Successful defense of corporation investigated for alleged fraud, negligence, and false claims on Boston’s Big Dig tunnel collapse.

• Successful defense of major military contractors against DOJ investigations of Iraq and Afghanistan engagements.

• Appointed by the U.S. District Court in Boston as the SEC’s receiver in SEC v. Bleidt et al., a major investment fraud case. Recovered millions for defrauded investors. The federal judge described the work and results as “outstanding.”

• Successful defense of Smith & Nephew, Inc., one of the largest medical device companies in the world, in federal industry investigation in New Jersey, including negotiating Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) and managing process of outside monitorship.

• Successfully defended several major law firms in different venues from government attempts to breach the attorney-client and work product privileges in federal investigations.

• Defended billion-dollar equipment manufacturer against charges brought by Environmental Protection Agency; charges dropped in favor of minimal civil penalty.

• Obtained defense verdict in federal jury trial as lead counsel for major pharmaceutical company

• Successful defense of international organization in civil class action and related criminal fraud investigation by State Attorney General; prosecution declined, favorable civil settlement.

• Successful litigation and settlement on behalf of multinational corporation against state government alleging trade discrimination, antitrust and commerce clause violations.

• Successful litigation on behalf of billion-dollar corporation alleging unfair trade practices and fraud.

• Successful defense of various hedge funds in SEC and criminal investigations; all civil and criminal charges declined.

• Successful defense of major international manufacturer against charges of importation and environmental violations brought by U.S. Customs and EPA; prosecution declined.

• Successful defense of government contractors against False Claims Act charges by U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Attorney; civil and criminal charges declined.

Professional Memberships

• Admissions:

o New Hampshire

o New York

o U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

o U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

o U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

o U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

o U.S. Supreme Court

Personal

• Fordham University School of Law, J.D.

• National Autonomous University of Mexico, Graduate Studies as a Rotary Fellow

• Harvard University, B.A., with honors

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