EXPERIENCE:

DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SPECIAL OPERATIONS, PHILA., PA, *****

One of only two Deputies of an investigative and trial division. Supervised a team of assistant district attorneys (20+), investigators and agents (60+), and support staff in long-term, pro-active investigations into violent drug gangs, gun trafficking and gun violence offenses city-wide. These efforts included investigations, strategy, wire-tapping, indictment/arrest, forfeiture of assets, money laundering coordination, and prosecution.

SINALOA CARTEL: For over a year, the Special Operations team conducted an investigation which culminated in the arrests of several members of the Sinaloa Cartel, widely regarded as the largest and most violent drug-trafficking organization in the world. This cartel is singularly responsible for tons of narcotic flow monthly, as well as the confirmed beheading of dozens of law enforcement officers in Mexico and Southwest United States. This was a joint DAO, DEA, and FBI investigation which utilized trap/trace, pen registers, wiretaps, trackers, pings, UC agents, CI plants, and pole cam intelligence to stop a direct pipeline of money and drugs to/from Mexico to Philadelphia and several other countries. The team’s investigation resulted in numerous arrests in Philadelphia and, simultaneously, El Paso, Texas. Aspects of this investigation remain ongoing.

MONEY LAUNDERING: Worked daily with IRS, DEA, FBI, other local agencies, as well as internal colleagues, to negotiate forfeiture of direct and derivative proceeds of illegal activity, as well as to plan operations for money laundering investigations either derivative to, or directly resulting from, existing and planned criminal investigations. These efforts included retrieval and review of phone records, motor vehicle records, bank, mortgage, transactional, and other financial documents as well as less conventional means of bookkeeping. Currently, USA v. Blay and Commonwealth v. Blay represent the largest and most well-known of these investigations. Mr. Blay is one of the world’s foremost authorities on, and collectors of, rare coins. His other source of income, as a drug dealer, was uncovered pursuant to our investigation and will result in significant forfeitures from the fortune amassed through laundering of his narcotic proceeds. Also supervised numerous other investigations into money-laundering organizations which remain ongoing and involve confidential and privileged information.

EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre Dame, IN
Juris Doctorate, May, 1993
Joseph A. Pindar Scholar
Notre Dame London Centre for Legal Studies, London, Summer 1991

LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Economics), May, 1990
Major: Economics
Minor: English
Minor: Business
John McShain Award (for academic excellence and university citizenship)
Dean’s List

President, University Honors Program
President, Economic Honors Society, Omicron Delta Epsilon
Member, Alpha Epsilon Honor Society
Who’s Who in American University

BOARD POSITIONS:
MARINE CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION (2009-PRESENT)