Bill’s experience includes complex white-collar investigations, criminal pharmaceutical and healthcare fraud matters, domestic bid-rigging and price-fixing investigations, international antitrust investigations, federal public corruption cases, mail fraud, money laundering, and domestic bribery  & FCPA cases.  He has won a dozen complex jury trials in the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 11th Circuits involving mail fraud, bid rigging, wire fraud, obstruction, extortion, bribery, price fixing and other conspiracy cases.

 

Over the past three decades, Bill has tried and won numerous jury trials and collected hundreds of millions in fines and judgments.  As a Senior Trial Attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, he supervised investigative teams across the globe in gathering and compiling evidence in matters affecting global markets, particularly in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Australia.

 

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

 

• Represented CEO in health care fraud investigation, no charges filed

• Represented CEO in concrete bid-rigging case, target letter withdrawn and no charges filed

• Represented Construction Co in EPA investigation, no federal charges filed

• Represented CEO in beverages industry matter, no charges filed

• Represented sr. marketing executive in $320 mm fraud scheme, six months home confinement

• Represented CEO in real estate foreclosure fraud investigation, no charges filed

• Represented investor before the SEC in ERISA matter, no charges filed

• Represented CEO of auto parts manufacturer on antitrust compliance issues

• Represented CEO in FCPA investigation in Latin America, no charges filed

• Represented National Sales Dir. in criminal pharmaceuticals matter, no charges filed

• Represented CFO in FCPA investigation in South America, no charges filed

• Represented Division President in international cartel investigation, no charges filed

• Represented CEO of travel industry corporation in fraud investigation, no charge filed

• Litigated complex sentencing issues involving white collar conspiracy matters

• Litigated complex sentencing issue involving more than $60 million in economic harm

• Successfully resolved complex corruption case, dramatically reducing client exposure

• Successfully investigated and tried bid rigging cartel in civil construction (Cairo, Egypt)

• Negotiated resolution of four price fixing cases in int. air cargo industry (Netherlands)

• Negotiated “no-jail deals” for corporate employees in two healthcare fraud cases

• Negotiated pre-indictment dismissal of wire fraud charges in a securities case

• Supervised cartel investigation in civil construction industry in Egypt and Germany

• Supervised cartel investigation and interviews under MLAT in Australia with ACCC

 

ARTICLES & SPEECHES

 

• “The DOJ Domino Effect: Forecasting the Growth of the Generic-Drug Probe” ABA Cartel & Criminal Practice Spring 2017 Newsletter

• Antitrust Amnesty Programs in Latin America, Int. Cartel Network, Cartagena, Col.

• ABA Antitrust Generic Drug Price Fixing Investigation Panel, November 2016

• “Colombian Leniency Program and DOJ Leniency: Different Approaches” ABA Antitrust Spring 2015 Newsletter

• Sponsorship Trial Strategy, Georgia State Univ. Law School, 2014

• Impact of Forensic Accounting on Complex Investigations, Georgia State Univ., 2013

• Internal Investigations in FCPA Cases, ACFE, 2013

• Parallel Investigations in Antitrust Matters, ICLE GA, 2013

• Keynote Speaker, Prosecuting Corruption Cases in Federal Court, FBI TN Task Force

• Sponsorship Trial Strategy, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 2012

• Public Corruption Cases, National Trial Advocacy Center, 2012

• International Business and Crime ­­– FCPA and Antitrust, ICLE GA, 2012

• Antitrust Enforcement, International Cartel Network, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009

• ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, Mock Trial Presenter, U.S. v. Petrol, Inc., 2007

• Antitrust Cartel Investigations, International Cartel Network, Sydney, Australia, 2004

 

MEMBERSHIPS

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• Georgia Bar Association

• Alabama Bar Association (inactive)

• American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section, Antitrust Section

• Atlanta Bar Association

• National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys

• International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors

 

HONORS

 

• Georgia Super Lawyers, Top Rates White-Collar Criminal Defense, 2016 to present

• Chairman of Antitrust Section, Georgia State Bar Association, 2018, 2020

• Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service

• Hugh P. Morrison Award for Professionalism and Legal Precision

• Antitrust Division Award of Distinction

• Federal Law Enforcement Officers’ Award for Prosecutorial Excellence

• USAID Distinguished Unit Citation

• Hugo Black Scholar

• Henderson M. Somerville Scholar

• Eagle Scout