Jeffrey M. King focuses on white collar criminal defense and related civil litigation, as well as investigations.
Mr. King has represented clients in high-profile matters, including a White House staffer in the special counsel’s CIA leak/Scooter Libby investigation, former Department of Justice (DOJ) White House liaison Monica Goodling in Congress’ well-publicized inquiry into the firings of U.S. Attorneys, a former congressional staffer in a Jack Abramoff-related investigation, and numerous former White House and Cabinet agency political appointees in Hatch Act and alleged unfair hiring practice investigations by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Mr. King also has represented clients who were the subject of inspectors general investigations, including by the inspectors general of the DOJ and the Smithsonian Institution.
Mr. King has litigated issues relating to search warrants and the seizure of computer and other data by federal agents, and defended numerous clients’ assertions of their Fifth Amendment privilege, including before Congress and in an action to compel a client’s testimony in federal court.
Mr. King has represented government officials and chairmen, CEOs and other senior officers of international and domestic corporations in federal grand jury, SEC enforcement, foreign tribunal, and internal corporate investigations. Investigation 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, and mail, wire and accounting fraud. He has also 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 participated in the defense at trial of clients charged with insider trading, bribery, fraud and tax evasion by the DOJ, and 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.
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 highly publicized videotaped shooting in an Iraqi Mosque 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 participates actively in alumni and career development events for current students. 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. He is a former member of the editorial board of advisors of Money Laundering Alert and has spoken several times at its annual Money Laundering Conference.