John Sciortino’s practice focuses on internal investigations, federal agency and Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations, Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) attorney misconduct investigations, grand jury investigations, Congressional investigations, national security matters, and selected federal criminal matters.John’s experience includes: • a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney, with over 20 complex federal criminal jury trials, including significant experience with grand jury investigations, cybercrime, criminal civil rights and environmental cases, human trafficking, arms export cases, white collar fraud, RICO, and violent crime and homicide. During this period, John also served as the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) “Counsel for Cybercrime, Project Safe Childhood and Criminal Civil Rights Coordinator,” helping coordinate nationwide cooperation among the 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and the Criminal Division’s computer crimes and child exploitation sections, Civil Rights Division Criminal Section, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.• a decade the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), conducting internal investigations and evaluations of sensitive allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in complex criminal cases and writing detailed reports of investigation with factual findings, legal conclusions, and management recommendations. John is the only OPR alumnus currently representing Justice Department attorneys before that office.• extensive experience with the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Office of Intelligence, with a classified counterintelligence practice before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court; • a tenure as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) statutory Counsel to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG), pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 3033(i), leading a team of attorneys and paralegals to provide independent, confidential legal advice and policy counsel to the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
Listed skills include Criminal Law, Trial Practice, Legal Writing, Trials, and 9 others.