I'm a partner in HHR's DC and NY offices.Represented board members, businesses, CEOs, charities and donors in fraud (US v. Kindambu and US v. Nsahlai, EDVa), election law, Espionage Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and violent crimes cases (Cooper v. US, USAF).Represented a board member, businesses, and CEOs accused of defamation, discrimination, hacking, racketeering and trade secret theft (Broidy v. Global Risk Advisors LLC, SDNY).Represented businesses, individuals and not-for-profits pursuing Civil Rights Act, defamation, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, fraud (Save Our Allies, LLC v. Gustin, SDFla and Reed v. Howard, Loudon Co., VA), and Privacy Act (Doe v. Burns, DDC) claims.Represented the first whistleblower regarding CIA’s mishandling of sex crimes within the Agency, leading to a House Intelligence committee investigation, an inspector general investigation ordered by the Senate Intelligence committee, and statutory reforms in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (118 P.L. 31, 137 Stat. 136).Supervised internal investigations for a Fortune 250 company and a social media company.Represented CIA and military officials in House of Representatives Intelligence and Judiciary committee investigations.Represented CIA, FBI, Defense and State Department officials in internal investigations.Performed due diligence on a politically exposed person.Advised businesses, a foreign government entity and not-for-profits on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Foreign Agent Registration Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, International Traffic in Arms Regulations and National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual compliance.Advised litigation funders on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.Advised businesses operating in Afghanistan, Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine.Represented individual victims of extortion, harassment, stalking and violent crimes.Assisted Afghan refugees in obtaining U.S. visas.

I've written for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Guardian and Daily News; legal publications such as Bloomberg Law, Law 360, Georgetown Journal of International Law, and Quinn Emanuel's Business Litigation Report; DC trade papers such as The Dispatch, The Hill and Washington Examiner; and websites such as National Public Radio, FoxNews.com, War on the Rocks, Persuasion, CyberTuesday and Steady State. I've offered commentary to CNN, C-SPAN, NBC, Fox, and News Nation, and newspapers such as The New York Times and The Times of London.

Advocacy for the vice president’s campaign in advertisements; on CNN, Fox, MSNBC and NewsNation; on local TV and radio in swing states; and in press conferences.

I served as deputy commander of the National Ground Intelligence Center; in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and on the Joint Staff and Army Staff; at the Defense Intelligence Agency; as a human intelligence and sensitive activities officer for special operators in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, including the National Missions Force; and as an analyst for the US commanders in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. My decorations include the Legion of Merit. I maintain TS/SCI clearances.

I was a Partner in Wiggin’s Litigation Department and a leader of the firm’s national security and congressional investigations practices.Represented government officials (including an undersecretary) and professionals in false statements, public integrity, terror finance and violent crimes cases, including acquittal of a defendant facing 74 years in prison (United States v. Kim, USAF).Represented Cabinet and subcabinet officers in House of Representatives Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Oversight and Government Reform committee investigations, and a Senate confirmation proceeding.Represented a former prime minister in Section 1782 litigation (Razak v. Leissner, SDNY).Supervised an internal investigation for a university victimized by China’s “Thousand Talents” program.Represented business executives (including a CEO), Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security Department officials in internal investigations.Represented businesses and individuals pursuing Antiterrorism Act (Schrier v. Qatar Islamic Bank, SDFla), trade secret theft (District Capital Partners LLC v. Palmer, DDC) and Torture Victim Protection Act (Al-Suyid v. Hifter, EDVa) claims.Represented a managing director accused of fraud (Crescent Technologies Ltd. v. Harr, Marin Co., CA).Represented a business in a bid protest of a CIA contract (Probity Enter., Inc. v. Peraton, Inc.).Persuaded New York State and City governments, unanimously, to amend civil service laws to allow an older Navy SEAL to join the FDNY (S.B. 6474, 2019 Leg., 242nd Sess. (N.Y. 2019), amending N.Y. Mil. Law § 243).Represented a hedge fund victimized by a business email compromise.Obtained a license to deal with a sanctioned entity.Helped delist a sanctioned bank.Advised businesses on Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Military Sales, and International Traffic in Arms Regulations compliance.Represented an FBI informant in a Section 3071 matter.

I was appointed an SES-III to advise the Hon. John F. Kelly. He detailed me as Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the US Council on Transnational Organized Crime. I led a team of Defense, Homeland Security (including CBP and HSI), Justice (including DEA and FBI), State, Treasury and ODNI officials. We issued reports to the President, and advocated changes to the National Security Strategy, criminal statutes, and intelligence and sanctions authorities. I also participated in CFIUS review of transactions under FIRRMA. I departed the Administration when General Kelly did. The US Council on Transnational Organized Crime was made permanent by Executive Order 14060 on December 15, 2021.

I was an in-house lawyer for a software company that I had represented as outside counsel, and whose clients include the FBI and Secret Service. I was responsible for cyber and export control, FCPA and FCRA policies, and bid protests, and also stopped a theft of our IP. I represented, pro bono, Brigadier General Sean Mulholland in a successful effort to regain his rank. I departed when recalled to public service.

Persuaded a U.S. district judge to use the Administrative Procedure Act to throw out the results of a Board of Inquiry held in retaliation against a Marine whistleblower (Brezler v. Mills, EDNY).Helped represent a business, a government entity and a not-for-profit pursuing First Amendment free association (Americans for Prosperity v. Harris, CDCa), trade secret theft (PPG Indus. v. Jiangsu Tie Mao Glass Co., WDPa) and Securities Act ($806m trial verdict in Fed. Hous. Fin. Agency v. Nomura Holding Am., Inc., SDNY) claims.Helped conduct an internal investigation of tax fraud for a Swiss bank.Helped represent a political official in a public integrity case.Advised litigation funders on the Antiterrorism Act.I departed to go in-house with a client.

I helped the Hon. Peter T. King conduct 15 public hearings, including jointly with the Senate. Subjects included terror threats to and within the US military; radicalization in US prisons; and Iranian threats to and within the US (after which Iran asked Interpol to arrest our witnesses). I oversaw investigations into the admission of a designated foreign terrorist into the US; plans to transfer World Trade Center bombing ringleader the "Blind Sheikh" to Egypt (which we thwarted); the failure to fully prosecute terror fundraising cases against the Holy Land Foundation; and leaks of classified information to the filmmakers of "Zero Dark Thirty" (resulting in a criminal referral). I participated in investigations into the Boston Marathon bombing, additional 9/11 conspirators, and US Secret Service misconduct in Colombia. I also helped obtain the release of a former Army Special Forces operator held hostage in Iraq. I departed because Mr. King's chairmanship was term-limited.

I served in Iraq and the US, collecting human intelligence briefed to the President and other policymakers. I departed to work on policy matters as a congressional staffer.

I assisted the Hon. Thomas C. Platt in civil and criminal trials, and helped publish 18 opinions. Subjects included civil rights, copyrights, criminal law and procedure, international arbitration, pensions, securities, and trade secrets — several cited as New York Law Journal "decisions of interest." All appealed decisions were affirmed. (Judge Platt offered one-year clerkships.)

I researched civil and criminal litigation matters before being voluntarily recalled to the Army post-9/11.

I served in the 1st Infantry Division as a division liaison in Hungary, brigade and battalion staffer and radar battery executive officer in Germany, and radar platoon leader in Bosnia. I left active duty to begin law school.