Matt is a former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney who focuses his practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and investigations, federal tax controversies, financial institution regulatory compliance and complex civil litigation.
Matt represents companies and individuals in federal grand jury investigations and criminal prosecutions in a wide variety of areas, including tax, money laundering, health care, securities, public corruption, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act and fraud offenses. He also frequently litigates federal and state civil asset forfeiture matters. In several instances, Matt has successfully persuaded law enforcement agencies to decline prosecution of his clients, including an individual who failed to file tax returns for several years, a small business owner suspected of underreporting cash sales, an individual who maintained undisclosed offshore bank accounts and a business owner suspected of structuring monetary transactions.
Matt also has significant experience conducting internal investigations and advising companies and boards as to whether to self-disclose suspected wrongdoing to law enforcement. Matt is also a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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