Attorneys

Richard F. Albert has represented individuals and corporations in a wide range of criminal and regulatory matters, including investigations of market manipulation, insider trading, accounting violations, healthcare fraud, money laundering, antitrust violations, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. He also has conducted internal investigations and represented public companies, banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, and their officers and employees in complex civil litigation and arbitration.

After receiving a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and serving as law clerk to the Hon. Kimba M. Wood, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Albert was in private practice from 1990 to 1994, concentrating on white-collar criminal and regulatory matters and civil litigation. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Albert served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, conducting a broad range of criminal investigations and trials, including cases involving charges of securities fraud, healthcare fraud and obstruction of justice. He returned to private practice in 1999 and joined Morvillo Abramowitz as a principal in 2004.

The principal author of “Department of Justice Charging, Plea-Bargaining and Sentencing Policies Under Attorneys General Thornburgh, Reno and Ashcroft” (Report of the Federal Bar Council Committee on Second Circuit Courts, July 2004), Mr. Albert is the co-author of “A Bad Fit – Criminal Forfeiture of Substitute Assets, the Lis Pendens” (New York Law Journal, August 10, 2005) and “Vicarious Liability Under Civil RICO” (Practicing Law Institute, Civil RICO 1989 Course Handbook). He has spoken at continuing legal education seminars on white-collar criminal defense, legal ethics, federal civil litigation and securities arbitration.

Mr. Albert is a member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, the New York City Bar Association (Committee on Criminal Advocacy, 2000-2003), the Federal Bar Council (Committee on Second Circuit Courts, 2003-present), and the American Bar Association (Criminal Justice and Litigation Section).  He also represents indigent defendants as a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Albert is admitted in New York and to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.