Alfredo F. Mendez

I am a former state and federal white collar crime prosecutor with more than three decades of experience. I concentrate my practice in White Collar Criminal Defense, Health Care Fraud and Abuse, Governmental Investigations and Internal Corporate Investigations and Compliance. I have been selected a Super Lawyer-White Collar Criminal Defense-NY Metro Area every year for the last 11 years (2012 through 2022).

I represent individual and corporate clients in every phase of federal, state and local governmental investigations, including grand jury proceedings, criminal prosecutions, forfeiture proceedings, regulatory and disciplinary actions, as well as civil proceedings. I have extensive experience handling cases involving allegations of insurance fraud, including Medicaid, Medicare, No-Fault and Workers Compensation fraud, healthcare fraud, and violations of the False Claims Act and RICO, as well as matters involving allegations of securities fraud,money laundering, tax evasion, bank fraud, mail fraud, piracy and trademark counterfeiting, false statements, bribery, kickbacks, and public corruption.  I am also able to conduct internal and external investigations and reviews, and advise corporate clients, including financial institutions and money service businesses, on a broad range of anti-fraud, anti-money laundering and compliance related matters.  

Prior to going into private practice, I served for nearly five years as the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Counsel to the New York State Commission of Investigation, a statewide law enforcement agency, where I directed investigations involving corruption, official misconduct, fraud, and malfeasance in New York State and local government. In addition, for eighteen years, I served as an Assistant Attorney General in New York under Attorneys General Robert Abrams, Dennis Vacco and Eliot Spitzer. While there, I held the positions of Chief of the Securities Prosecution Unit, Chief of the Financial Crimes Section and Chief of the Crime Proceeds Section in the Criminal Division.  I also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for the tax evasion and mail fraud prosecution of Harry and Leona Helmsley. I have also acted as Special Prosecutor in Westchester County on a number of occasions where the local district attorney was superseded by the Governor.

I have served as Chairperson of the Board of Ethics of the Village of Ossining in Westchester County. I am admitted to practice in New York State courts and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. I am fluent in Spanish.