Practice Areas & Industries: Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Adler Pollock & Sheehan has an extremely diverse and successful white collar criminal defense practice.

Services Available

AP&S attorneys represent clients regarding government contracting fraud, Medicare, Medicaid and health care fraud and abuse cases, RICO, bribery, and Hobbs Act False Claims. Our defense attorneys also represent clients in a wide range of governmental investigations, including federal and state grand jury matters. In addition, the firm provides its corporate and individual clients extensive strategic counseling on numerous issues. AP&S attorneys also represent individuals charged with a number of state offenses and traffic related matters, including driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and implied consent charges.

Drawing upon the cumulative experience of serving as state prosecutors, public defenders, and on parole boards, AP&S defense attorneys offer clients a unique edge in dealing with today's complex issues.

AP&S attorneys are admitted to practice in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and the United States Supreme Court, as well as other jurisdictions, and have represented clients in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Representative Matters

• AP&S attorneys successfully defended the former Mayor of Providence’s Chief of Staff in federal corruption, bribery and conspiracy charges, obtaining a jury verdict on all counts.
• AP&S attorneys represented through two trials and appeals a U.K.-based gaming institution on public corruption, honest services and bribery charges.
• We represented the subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company in a significant grand jury investigation relating to alleged fraudulent lending-schemes, convincing a federal prosecutor not to seek indictment.
• AP&S attorneys represented owners of nursing homes and health care facilities, defending them on Medicaid, Medicare, equity-skimming and fraud claims.
• We represented a major wire and cable manufacturer on internal investigations relating to kick-back and fraud charges in that industry.
• AP&S attorneys represent a national utility company on defense of criminal environmental charges brought under federal statutes relating to the alleged improper storage of chemicals.
• We represent an Asian foreign pharmaceutical company in a multi-state, multi-jurisdictional regulatory and criminal prosecution arising out of the Mitchell Report and involving distribution of HGH.
• AP&S attorneys successfully defended the employee of a precious-metals firm on charges of stealing gold and silver, obtaining a defense verdict on all charges.
• AP&S attorneys defended a foreign national physician on charges of money laundering, healthcare fraud and conspiracy.
• We successfully represented a financial institution investigated for allegedly paying kick-backs to a local politician, convincing prosecutors not to bring charges.
• On a pro bono basis, AP&S attorneys, working with the ABA Death Penalty Project, represented a death-row inmate through state and federal appeals and habeas corpus proceedings.
• AP&S attorneys were court appointed by the chief judge of a federal court to represent a member of the Latin Kings gang.  We were successful in convincing the U.S. Department of Justice to decline seeking the death penalty and defended, through the court appointment, the reputed head of the Latin Kings gang through a trial that lasted several months.