Lou provides strategic counsel on high-stakes matters, focusing on complex, large-scale white collar litigation, government investigations, and enforcement actions, including environmental advertising and marketing claims such as greenwashing and carbon credit fraud. Clients benefit from his experience leading criminal investigations across the country, as a former Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney at the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He understands the government from the inside out, with deep knowledge about enforcement priorities, prosecutorial strategy, and regulatory risk. Lou stands ready to deliver the highest quality results for entities and individuals facing government scrutiny.

Highlights of Lou’s experience and expertise at Beveridge & Diamond include:

• Representing corporations and individuals in criminal investigations led by the Health Care Fraud Section within DOJ (Main Justice) related to allegations of average sales price manipulations, rebate fraud, and unnecessary services related to wound care and amniotic allograft products.
• Representing clients in wound care prosecutions initiated by multiple U.S. Attorney’s Offices around the country.
• Representing an Audit Committee investigating allegations of C-Suite accounting fraud and financial malfeasance.
• Representing a corporation in a multi-day preliminary injunction hearing in U.S. District Court relating to multimillion-dollar odor nuisance and nuisance per se claims.
• Designing and implementing healthcare compliance programs for multiple early-stage growth companies.
• Representing multiple municipalities under criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney’s Offices for environmental claims, including allegations of unpermitted waste discharge and improper asbestos remediation.
• Representing a corporation under criminal investigation by a U.S. Attorney’s Office for allegations related to Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Water Act, and Clean Air Act violations.
• Representing defendants in criminal Lacey Act matters related to the importation of spider monkeys, pangolins, and other exotic wildlife.
• Representing corporations in internal whistleblower allegations concerning hazardous chemicals and false statements submitted to EPA.
• Representing a corporation in an Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) investigation concerning the handling of highly hazardous chemicals and radioactive debris.
• Representing a corporation under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the California DOJ for alleged unpermitted importation of controlled substances.
• Representing a diplomat and other individuals in highly sensitive investigations litigated in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Highlights of Lou’s experience and expertise at DOJ include:

• Serving as lead prosecutor on the largest COVID-19 pandemic fraud conspiracy investigation in the country. Lou convicted 15 individuals on wire fraud, bank fraud, false statements, and money laundering offenses stemming from more than $75 million in fraud loss. In addition to executing dozens of search warrants across multiple states, Lou coordinated with foreign governments and banks to seize assets.
• Investigating the country’s largest carbon credit offset case, which included allegations of accounting fraud relating to a public offering and wire fraud relating to the double-counting of carbon offsets and the mismarking of carbon offsets to defraud institutional investors and numerous high-profile individuals.
• Convicting an individual for manufacturing counterfeit parts that impacted national security and caused a multimillion-dollar loss to the U.S. military. Lou coordinated with Army and Navy officials to locate and dispose of counterfeit parts located around the world and in use during active-duty military operations.
• Indicting, trying, and convicting six doctors for illegal opioid prescribing and health care fraud across multiple states as part of the largest nationwide takedown of health care professionals. Lou’s prosecutions involved jury addresses, extensive direct and cross-examination of experts, in-depth analysis of medical files, and direct and cross-examination of patients suffering from drug addiction.
• Trying over 30 cases, including homicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, violent crime, gun possession, and drug distribution offenses. Lou has prepared and presented hundreds of witnesses before grand and petit juries, including children, cooperators, law enforcement, and expert witnesses in medicine, cell-site analysis, and the forensic collection and analysis of metadata, fingerprints, and DNA. He has authored extensive pre- and post-trial motions and appellate briefs on Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and evidentiary rules.
• Completing nearly one hundred proffers and preparing numerous reverse proffers. Lou has developed close relationships with Assistant U.S. Attorneys across the country and the white-collar defense bar.

As a former federal prosecutor, Lou has worked with dozens of federal law enforcement agencies and maintains close relationships with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Homeland Security, and DEA, as well as the inspectors general within the Department of the Treasury, Health and Human Services, U.S. Postal Service, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Small Business Administration, and all branches of the military. He can quickly identify weaknesses in government investigations, advocate to key government decision-makers, and advise clients on the best course of action.

Lou regularly speaks with major news outlets, including CNN and Bloomberg Law, on high-stakes criminal trials.