Fraud investigations can involve state prosecutors, federal agencies, financial institutions, employers, insurers, banks, healthcare entities, online platforms, or business partners. A strong defense starts early by identifying the documents, witnesses, money trail, intent evidence, and exposure before the government frames the case.
Lebedin Kofman LLP defends clients in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and related state and federal investigations. The firm handles fraud allegations involving money, documents, electronic communications, benefits, insurance claims, healthcare billing, banks, securities, taxes, mortgages, and business disputes.
What Is at Stake
Fraud cases can threaten liberty, employment, professional licenses, immigration status, restitution exposure, forfeiture, reputation, bank relationships, and business operations. In federal cases, the investigation may begin long before an arrest, making early counsel especially important.
How Prosecutors Build These Cases
Fraud cases are often built from bank records, emails, text messages, contracts, invoices, tax records, billing records, electronic account data, cooperating witnesses, subpoenaed documents, search warrants, interviews, and financial analysis. The defense must understand both the documents and the story prosecutors are trying to build from them.
Evidence We Look For Early
Subpoenas, target letters, search warrants, and agency communications
Bank records, transaction histories, invoices, contracts, tax records, and ledgers
Emails, texts, messaging-app records, cloud files, and metadata
Compliance records, billing files, insurance records, and business policies
Witness statements, cooperation agreements, audit findings, and expert analyses
Loss calculations, restitution demands, forfeiture claims, and sentencing exposure
Defense Issues We Evaluate
Lack of fraudulent intent
Good-faith belief, mistake, reliance, or business dispute rather than crime
Weak proof of material misrepresentation or causation
Inflated loss amount or unsupported restitution theory
Search, seizure, subpoena, statement, and privilege issues
Early intervention, proffer strategy, dismissal, reduction, trial, or sentencing strategy
Local Defense Strategy in New York City and Long Island
Fraud allegations may be prosecuted in New York state courts, the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, or through parallel civil, regulatory, or administrative proceedings. A defense strategy should account for the forum, the agency involved, collateral consequences, document preservation, and how communications with investigators are handled.
How Lebedin Kofman LLP Helps
The defense may involve challenging the arrest, testing the strength of the evidence, negotiating with prosecutors, preparing motion practice, investigating witnesses and video, and positioning the case for dismissal, reduction, trial, or the best possible resolution. The firm also looks at collateral consequences, including immigration, licensing, employment, school, family, and reputation issues.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I speak with investigators or store security?
No one should discuss the facts of a criminal allegation with police, prosecutors, private security, employers, banks, insurers, or investigators before speaking with a defense lawyer. Statements that seem harmless can be used later.
Can these charges be reduced or dismissed?
Sometimes. The answer depends on the evidence, prior history, restitution or loss issues, witness problems, search and statement issues, and the courthouse handling the case. Early defense work often creates more options.
Request a free consultation if you were arrested, received a desk appearance ticket, were contacted by investigators, or believe you are under investigation.
White Collar, Fraud, and Federal Investigation Defense
Many criminal and federal cases begin as document-heavy investigations involving subpoenas, financial records, business communications, tax issues, healthcare billing, insurance claims, securities allegations, money laundering theories, or asset seizures. Lebedin Kofman LLP defends clients in these high-stakes matters and helps clients respond before a case becomes harder to control.
Fraud allegations can start in state court, federal court, regulatory inquiries, bank investigations, or business disputes. These pages cover the related white collar and financial-crime issues clients most often need to understand.
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White collar and fraud defense paths
Connect the fraud allegation to the right defense path
Fraud and white-collar investigations move through documents, subpoenas, interviews, account records, proffer decisions, grand-jury risk, and value or loss calculations. Early defense work should organize the proof before statements are made.
Preserve every subpoena, target letter, search warrant, DAT, complaint, indictment, email, text, invoice, bank record, tax record, payroll record, business record, audit notice, agency letter, recording, and witness name. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
