White Collar Criminal Defense & Government Investigations
Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo is the premier white-collar criminal defense firm in the Northwest. We defend criminal prosecutions, federal grand jury investigations and other government enforcement proceedings throughout the country. Our clients have included Fortune 500 companies and other large corporations and their employees. We have assisted in a wide variety of government investigations, but recent emphasis has been those investigations involving environmental, safety, tax, securities and health care matters.
Our clients seek our assistance in:
- Responding to grand jury subpoenas, government investigative demands and summonses, and other requests for information from the government;
- Responding to search warrants;
- Defending against federal and state criminal prosecutions and defending parallel civil litigation;
- Conducting corporate internal investigations and compliance audits; and
- Defending and prosecuting qui tam actions.
Recent matters have included defending a W.R. Grace executive in a Clean Air Act and obstruction of justice prosecution arising out of the company’s operation of a vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana (for which the company was ultimately exonerated), and defending celebrity David Copperfield against false allegations of kidnapping and fraud in a federal grand jury investigation, and in related civil tort and commercial litigation.
Our firm’s criminal defense practice is composed of former prosecutors and government attorneys with the experience necessary to obtain successful results in litigation with the government — often the most significant disputes our clients need to solve.