John Chanin: Representative White-Collar Matters

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John’s experience in white-collar and regulatory defense includes representing:

  • The owner of a trucking company criminally charged with wire fraud and false statements in the provision of contract trucking services to the U.S. Postal Service 
  • A former executive of Qwest Communications in a federal criminal prosecution
  • A former bank president in a multimillion-dollar fraud prosecution resulting from a subprime credit card program and subsequent collapse of the bank 
  • A former employee of the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service in a criminal investigation into conflicts of interest and other improprieties 
  • A leading plaintiff’s attorney facing contempt sanctions for representations made in federal court in a securities class-action lawsuit
  • An engineer employed by Newmont Mining in a federal investigation of an accidental death 
  • A construction company in a federal grand jury investigation involving bid-rigging and antitrust violations 
  • An employee of an Internet retailer in a federal investigation involving money laundering and the receipt of stolen property 
  • An executive of a major pharmaceutical company in an FDA probe into falsified testing and quality control data A former appraiser in a state and federal investigation involving a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme 
  • A construction company in a potential criminal OSHA investigation of an accidental death 
  • Business owners in numerous federal tax-fraud and tax-evasion prosecutions