David Freeman Axelrod

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Conducted an internal investigation for a public company into unlawful transactions with Cuban entities through subsidiaries in Canada
  Spain. Assisted the company in making voluntary disclosures to the U.S.Department of Justice, the Office of Foreign Assets Control
  the Securities
  Exchange Commission. As a result, no enforcement action taken against the company or any of its directors, officers or employees.
  Represented a physician who was a target in a multi-year health care fraud investigation involving allegations of false diagnoses
  billing fraud.Client avoided indictment
  the statute of limitations has expired.All other known targets have been indicted
  entered agreements to plead guilty.
  As a special prosecutor for the State of Ohio, prosecuted the largest state.
  securities fraud case in the history of the state, culminating in a trial lasting almost six months with verdicts of guilty on hundreds of counts of securities fraud.
  Successfully represented a multi-billion dollar company in a customs investigation involving suspected double invoicing to evade duties, conducted an internal investigation
  persuaded the government not to take enforcement action against the company or any of its directors, officers or employees.
  Successfully represented a multi-billion dollar company in False Claims Act
  government investigations involving alleged transshipment of merch
  ise in violation of U.S. Customs laws
  conducted an internal investigation which led to a successful outcome.
  Successfully prosecuted grievances against two judicial c
  idates, including hearings before the Ohio Supreme Court's Board of Commissioners on Grievances
  Discipline. One resulted in the c
  idate being fined, ordered to pay attorney fees
  reprim
  ed.The other resulted in the c
  idate being fined
  ordered to pay attorney fees.Penalties affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court.
  Briefed
  argued precedent-setting case, reversing the district court
  establishing that a lawyer's failure to identify the party for whom he made currency deposits caused the financial institution to file false currency transaction reports
  therefore was an indictable offense.