PRACTICE AREAS

KelleterLaw PC handles all criminal law matters, with a focus on helping businesses and professionals charged with, or accused of, economic crimes like fraud, bribery, tax evasion, embezzlement, and other financial offenses, as well as regulatory and environmental crimes. This focus comes with years of experience responding to and conducting complex criminal investigations.

We handle a great many maritime criminal matters for local and international sectors of the maritime community, given Norfolk’s large and vibrant port.

Learn more about our services for White Collar Defense, Criminal Investigations, Maritime, and other criminal cases below.

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White Collar Defense

KelleterLaw has years of experience helping businesses and professionals charged in federal and Virginia courts with economic crimes. Trey's clients have included:

• A financial services professional charged federally with alleged tax fraud arising from a promoted tax shelter

• A wholesaler prosecuted federally for the alleged sale of counterfeit merchandise and contraband cigarettes

• A California-based web merchant prosecuted federally for alleged criminal copyright infringement of sophisticated business software

• A medical doctor prosecuted federally for alleged prescription fraud over the internet

• A bank officer prosecuted federally for alleged bank fraud

• A medical services provider prosecuted in Virginia for alleged Medicaid fraud

• A tax preparation business charged federally with alleged tax fraud

• A government contractor charged federally with alleged small business fraud

Criminal Investigations

When a business is investigated, it must conduct its own investigation to determine if the government will view it as a criminal target, witness, or victim. Similarly, a business might need to investigate proactively to prevent or end wrongdoing before it leads to criminal charges or civil fines.

Trey has years of experience with business clients as targets, witnesses, and victims. His clients have included:

• A professional services provider and its employees who are witnesses in prosecutions arising from the ongoing Mueller Special Counsel probe

• A large regional employer that had to respond to a federal investigation of possible procurement fraud by employees

• Multiple cases of government contracting businesses investigated for alleged fraud and violations of the False Claims Act

• Employees of a financial institution involved as witnesses in parallel SEC and federal criminal investigations of securities and bank fraud

• A food wholesaler investigated for alleged visa fraud involving foreign workers

• An environmental clean up company investigated federally for alleged pollution offenses on the Elizabeth River

Maritime Services

KelleterLaw represents domestic and international maritime businesses, and officers and crew of vessels, in Coast Guard investigations and criminal proceedings. Trey's clients have included:

• An engineer of an international cargo vessel prosecuted for alleged oily water separator pollution offenses, resulting in his full acquittal at a federal jury trial.

• An international shipping line in a Coast Guard investigation arising from a significant vessel collision resulting in a sinking off the East Coast

• A captain of a commercial vessel in a Coast Guard investigation arising from a significant vessel collision resulting in multiple deaths

• Five additional clients, as owner, charterer, or crew, in oily water separator environmental crimes investigations

• A large fish wholesaler involved in the criminal investigation of alleged Lacey Act violations involving large scale harvesting in prohibited zones

• A commercial fisherman and a sport fisherman investigated federally in separate cases for alleged harvesting in prohibited zones