Jeffrey M. King focuses on white collar criminal defense and related civil litigation.
Mr. King has represented chairmen, CEOs and other officers of both international and domestic corporations in federal grand jury, SEC enforcement, foreign tribunal and internal corporate investigations. Those and other matters in which he has participated have involved allegations of public corruption, false statements, securities fraud, price fixing, health care fraud and abuse, import and export trade violations, mail and wire fraud, accounting fraud, bank fraud, passport and visa fraud, and money laundering. He also has performed numerous internal investigations for public and private companies around the world and counseled those companies regarding disclosure, reporting, compliance, corporate governance and document-retention issues.
In addition, Mr. King has represented individuals and companies in criminal and civil matters before various federal and state courts, the District of Columbia City Council, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Army Review Boards Agency. He has also represented witnesses in high-profile matters, including a White House staffer in the special counsel’s CIA leak/Scooter Libby investigation, a former DOJ White House liaison in Congress’ inquiry into the firings of U.S. Attorneys and a former congressional staffer in a Jack Abramoff-related investigation.
Mr. King has litigated issues relating to search warrants and the seizure of computer and other data by federal agents, defended numerous clients’ assertions of their Fifth Amendment privilege before Congress, defended against an action to compel a client’s testimony in federal court and participated in the defense at trial of clients charged with insider trading, bribery, fraud and tax evasion by the Department of Justice.
Mr. King’s practice also includes defending clients in parallel civil litigation, including health care qui tam actions, lawsuits alleging the submission of false claims by government contractors, class action securities fraud cases and various derivative actions. His pro bono work has included litigating a child-custody action, representing a member of the armed forces in an internal probe related to a battlefield incident and counseling several clients with respect to international adoptions involving foreign embassies.
Mr. King received his B.A. with high honors in American history from the University of Michigan in 1995 for his thesis work, Gerald R. Ford and the Problem of Street Crime, in connection with which Mr. King consulted with the former president. He earned his J.D. cum laude in 1997 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he delivered the commencement address. He is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars and an associate member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court.
Mr. King is a former member of the editorial board of advisors of Money Laundering Alert, a monthly publication, and has spoken several times at its annual Money Laundering Conference.
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