Solomon L. Wisenberg Barnes & Thornburg LLP  E-mail  750 17th Street N.W., Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: (202) 371-6378 Blog: http://www.letterofapology.com

Author of: Queen For A Day: The Dangerous Game of Proffers, Proffer Agreements and Proffer Letters How to Avoid Going to Jail Under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents Taking the Fifth Amendment in Front of the Federal Grand Jury in Order to Protect White Collar Defendants and Their Papers The White-Collar Crime Crash Course: A Primer for Individuals Exposed to Federal Fraud Charges

Sol Wisenberg is Partner and Co-Chair of the White Collar Crime Practice Group for the Washington D.C. office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. In October 2004, Mr. Wisenberg founded Wisenberg & Wisenberg, PLLC, where he served as Managing Member until 2008. From 1999 to 2004, he was partner and chair of the White Collar Crime Practice Group at Washington D.C.'s Ross, Dixon & Bell.

His distinguished government career included serving as Deputy Independent Counsel, the number two position in the Whitewater/Lewinsky Investigation, and he was selected by Judge Kenneth Starr to conduct grand jury questioning of President Bill Clinton.

Mr. Wisenberg has extensive lead counsel experience in complex white collar criminal investigations and jury trials. His nationwide practice is devoted to representing individuals and businesses exposed to federal white collar criminal inquiries or charged with federal white collar crimes.

Mr. Wisenberg has successfully represented clients under investigation for public corruption (Hobbs Act), bribery, fraud (securities, bank, mail, tax, health care, FDA), foreign corrupt practices, false statements to government officials, arms export control act violations, theft of federal property, unlawful transportation of firearms, and possession with intent to distribute narcotics. He has also conducted internal investigations and insurance coverage fraud inquiries for corporations and non-profits.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Wisenberg was a highly regarded federal white collar crime prosecutor. His two year investigation of Victoria Savings Association, identified by Congress as a "Top 100" savings and loan failure involving $200 million in losses, resulted in the conviction of nine defendants and Mr. Wisenberg's receipt of a Director's Award from the Executive Office of United States Attorneys. Mr. Wisenberg tried and won numerous other white collar cases including U.S. v. CTI, Inc., a military contractor fraud identified by the U.S. Air Force as one of its most significant matters of 1990, and U.S. v. RMI Services International, a three year international securities fraud investigation involving a $40 million dollar prime bank instruments scam. Mr. Wisenberg investigated and indicted U.S. v. Flores, the Communicare Home Health Care case. The Communicare case was a four-year home health care fraud investigation growing out of a qui tam complaint. In all, Mr. Wisenberg was first chair attorney in over 20 federal jury trials during his career in the U.S. Attorney's Office, and investigated approximately 75 matters. A substantial majority of these cases involved white collar fraud.

Mr. Wisenberg has written for the National Law Journal, Health Care Fraud & Abuse Newsletter, the Texas Bar Journal and the Wilson Quarterly, and has served as an Instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice's Trial Advocacy Institute. He has been a guest speaker on White Collar Fraud at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and on Prosecutorial Ethics at the Georgetown University School of Law and has made guest appearances on the CBS Morning News, FOX News and CNN's Burden of Proof. Mr. Wisenberg clerked for the Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Tom G. Davis on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.