Boston White-Collar and Federal Crimes Lawyer

White-collar crimes are often known as "paper" cases, because state and federal prosecutors use substantial documentation to back up their charges. A criminal defense attorney must file key discovery motions to properly assess a case for his client. Additionally, most white-collar criminal cases involve charges of conspiracy, which allow prosecutors to suspend the hearsay rules that typically prevent unsubstantiated claims from being entered as evidence against a defendant. Attorney David R. Yannetti represents clients in Boston and throughout Massachusetts who have been charged with fraud, embezzlement, and other white collar-crimes in both Massachusetts and federal courts.

Attorney Yannetti may intervene as soon as possible on a client's behalf to ensure an investigation does not unfairly target him or her. As your lawyer, Attorney Yannetti would work hard to protect your rights, hiring his own investigators, computer experts, and forensic specialists to analyze and undermine the evidence against you.

White Collar Crimes and Federal Criminal Charges

Attorney Yannetti represents clients who have been indicted or who are under investigation for the following white-collar crimes:

Bribery
Extortion
Embezzlement
Money laundering
Computer fraud
Accounting fraud
Insider trading
Obstruction of justice
Mortgage fraud
Fraud in government contracts
Securities fraud
Mail fraud
Check forgery
Identity theft
Official misconduct
Corruption
Larceny

Addressing the Evidence Presented

A defense lawyer may pursue discovery of evidence in a white-collar criminal case in two ways:

By filing discovery motions with the court to order the prosecutor to turn over the documents and evidence in his file.
By persuading the court to order an employer, hospital, bank or other third-party to turn over additional items to the defense. For example, in the case of embezzlement charges, the employer might have documents that are important to your case that the prosecutor does not have in his possession - or simply has not pursued.

To determine which documents are important to your case, your defense attorney must conduct his or her own independent investigation. Preparation is 90 percent of the battle in white-collar crime cases such as fraud and embezzlement. It is therefore vitally important for you to contact an experienced and skilled criminal defense attorney as soon as you learn you are under investigation for a white-collar crime.

Attorney Yannetti has over eighteen years of criminal trial experience and has successfully handled all types of white-collar and federal crimes.

Free Phone Consultation: Contact Boston federal and white-collar crimes lawyer David Yannetti.

Sample Federal Case:

June 16, 2010
United States District Court
District of Massachusetts
Docket No. 08-10346-MLW
In one of the biggest victories of his career -- and after a 3-week trial -- Attorney Yannetti today succeeded in achieving Not Guilty Verdicts for his Client in a Conspiracy-to-Kidnap and Conspiracy-to-Murder case. Client, a 72 year-old Italian-born Canadian citizen, would likely have served the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary if he had been convicted. The United States Attorney's Office alleged that Client and a co-defendant twice met at client's place of business in Montreal, for the purpose of hiring a hitman to kidnap, extort and kill a man who allegedly owed a large sum of money to the co-defendant. As a result, the co-defendant spoke several times with the "hitman," who was actually an undercover Boston detective wearing a hidden recording device. On tape, the co-defendant talked with pleasure about having the man thrown overboard to the sharks after he was forced to turn over millions of dollars. The co-defendant stressed to the undercover officer that Client was a powerful man, "someone who could order something and have it happen overnight." He told the undercover officer that Client was connected to a large organized-crime family in Canada. As a result, the undercover officer spoke with Client several times and recorded those conversations as well. When the undercover officer started to explain the plan to kidnap the man, Client said "I know everything," and repeated it more than once. The undercover officer told Client that they were planning on "grabbing" the guy in a few days and Client replied, "Very good, very good." Client also traveled from Canada to Vermont to be present when the "hitman" received $10,000 in cash to serve as his "expense money." Client's family hired Attorney Yannetti at an early juncture. Attorney Yannetti argued to the jury that Client did not have a good command of the English language and did not understand the true nature of his co-defendant's plot. Today, Attorney Yannetti (along with his co-counsel, Attorney Robert Sheketoff) succeeds in convincing the jury to reject the Governement's evidence. After a hard-fought trial (after which his co-defendant was convicted of both counts), Client walks from court a free man after awaiting trial in federal jail for over nearly two years. Result: Not Guilty Verdicts after a Jury Trial. Client is Acquitted of Both Indictments and Leaves for Canada to Go Home to his Wife and Family.