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Extra Phones: TollFree: (866) 572-6728
Location: Willard Office Bldg
AKA: Vernia Ben
Other Link: http://vernialaw.com
Categories: Business Law Attorneys, Attorneys, Criminal Law Attorneys

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Phone: (202) 349-4053

Address: 1455 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004

Website: http://vernialaw.com

Vernia Law Firm

Criminal Law

Criminal Defense
Ben Vernia represents whistleblowers, individual and corporate clients in criminal defense cases, litigants in complex civil litigation, and handles internal corporate investigations.
Sex Crimes
Ben accepted this award on behalf of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Department of Justice, for his work on Operation Falcon of the Department of Homeland Security. This task force dismantled a multimillion-dollar Internet-based commercial child pornography and money laundering enterprise, arrested and convicted nine individuals and a corporation, and distributed evidence which led to the arrest of over 1500 child pornography customers worldwide.
Fraud
One of the Department's highest awards, for his prosecution of two complex tax fraud and racketeering enterprises in Texas.
Homicide
In 2005, Ben entered private practice, representing individuals and corporations at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington. While at Covington, he defended dozens of corporations and individuals in government investigations - including the largest False Claims Act case in history - and began an ongoing four-year pro bono battle to free a young Mississippi father from a wrongful homicide conviction.
Money Laundering
He then worked in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. As a prosecutor, he investigated, indicted and tried complex Internet crimes featuring multiple targets, money laundering, RICO and tax fraud charges, as well as the search, seizure, and analysis of Internet and computer-based evidence.
Internet Crimes
From 2002 to 2005, Ben served as a prosecutor in the Department’s Criminal Division, where he investigated, indicted and tried complex Internet crimes involving entities engaging in child exploitation. These cases featured multiple targets, money laundering, RICO and tax fraud charges, as well as the search, seizure, and analysis of Internet and computer-based evidence.
Extortion
A construction company CEO who testified against a defendant in an extortion trial, in the successful defense of a suspension and proposed debarment by the Department of Transportation.

Employment Law

Employment Discrimination
Non-compete Agreement

Health Law

Personal Injury
Social Security Disability
Government employee whistleblowers in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs investigation into the largest Social Security disability fraud scheme in history;

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