Norman A. Bloch

Practices

• White-Collar Criminal / Internal Investigations
• Business Litigation
• International Trade & Customs

Professional Experience

Norman is a member of the firm's Competition, Antitrust & White-Collar Crime and Business Litigation practice groups. He focuses his practice on white-collar criminal matters and civil litigation. He has represented, and now represents, businesses and individuals in fraud (including mortgage fraud, health care fraud, customs fraud, insider trading and securities fraud, government contract fraud, student loan fraud and bank fraud), FCPA, export controls, public corruption, environmental, antitrust, labor racketeering, perjury, and RICO investigations and prosecutions conducted by federal, state and foreign authorities. Norman has represented clients in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Europe. Norman has also conducted internal investigations on behalf of public and private companies, and has represented parties in internal investigations and in proceedings initiated by various federal and state enforcement agencies, including the SEC, the CFTC and the New York State Attorney General's Office. In civil cases, he represents parties and defendants in civil RICO, false claims and forfeiture proceedings.

Norman went into private practice in 1989 after serving for seven years as special counsel and as a special attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York. He successfully prosecuted Lucchese family members and Teamsters union officials involved in labor racketeering and extortion in the air freight industry at JFK International Airport. He also handled fraud, perjury and tax evasion cases in the Strike Force.

Before joining the Strike Force in 1982, Norman was an assistant district attorney for five years in the trials, appeals and rackets bureaus of the New York County District Attorney's Office. There, he prosecuted and handled appeals in homicides and other serious cases.

Norman is admitted to practice in the state of New York and before the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Education

• New York University School of Law, J.D., 1977, cum laude, Research Editor, Law Review; Order of the Coif; Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize; John Norton Pomerory Prize
• Cornell University, B.A., 1974

• Representation of corporate executives and companies in FCPA and export controls investigations.
• Representation of a defendant in the Galleon SEC insider trading case
• Representation of construction firms in labor payoff and government procurement fraud cases.
• Representation of board of directors of publicly-held bank holding company in internal investigations
• Representation of board of directors of publicly-held company in backdated stock options cases.
• Representation of former FBI supervisory special agent in state murder prosecution.
• Representation of importers in customs fraud cases.
• Representation of maritime broker in an international arms export case.
• Representation of chemical and advertising executives in price-fixing cases.
• Representation of accountants and lawyers in fraud investigations.

• "Should The Prosecutor Be the Judge of a Defendant’s Cooperation?" (co-author) · New York Law Journal, February 1992
• "Can Lawyers Be Prosecuted for the Advice They Give?" (co-author) · New York Law Journal , July 1991
• "Gagging Bankers: Grand Jury Nondisclosure Statutes and the First Amendment " · 107 Banking L.J. 441, September/October 1990
• Comment, Roe v. Ingraham and the Right to Privacy · 50 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1149, 1975

• Selected for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers® magazine (criminal defense, white collar), 2006-2011
• Listed in The Best Lawyers of America, 2011-2012