Susan W. Van Dusen - Lawyer in Miami, FL

Susanhas practiced as a criminal defense attorney since 1980. She and herformer law partner Albert J. Krieger (now retired) gained a national reputationrepresenting individuals and corporations in complex federal conspiracy, moneylaundering, and racketeering prosecutions, and other government enforcementmatters, such as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proceedings. Shehas extensive jury trial experience and has litigated matters throughout theUnited States and in multiple foreign jurisdictions.

Susanis a long time Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and a memberof the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and theAmerican Bar Association. She also serves as the Co-Chair of the LawyersAssistance Strike Force for the NACDL and a faculty member of the Trial SkillsAcademy of the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy, and has published andlectured extensively throughout the country on issues of ethics and trialadvocacy.

Asearly as 1991, she was selected for listing in the prestigious NationalDirectory of Criminal Lawyers. She has been AV-Rated in the Martindale-HubbellLaw Directory since 1990, has received numerous commendation awards from NACDL,and was nominated in 1998 for The National Law Journals List and Profiles ofThe Top 50 Women Civil and Criminal Lawyers in the United States. Susanwas also one of 5 criminal defense attorneys (and the only woman) chosen, in1997, by the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to receive its AnnualSuperstar award. In 2003, Susan was selected to serve as Vice-Chair ofthe American Bar Association Task Force on the Right To Counsel.

Susans experience extendsinternationally where she is a Fellow of the International Criminal Tribunalfor the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, a member of the Association of DefenseCounsel admitted to Practice before the Tribunal, and a member of the Bar ofthe International Criminal Court, International Criminal Defense AttorneysAssociation.

NATIONALLY PROMINENT CASES AND TRIALS:

• Representationin the Middle District of Florida of a defendant charged in a stock fraudindictment alleging $138 million loss to victim investors, pretrial preparationinvolved 3+ years of document review preceding 3 month trial.

• Representationin the Eastern District of Michigan of a defendant in high-profile publiccorruption case, charged in 100+ page RICO indictment, where contractor-clientwas charged with paying kickbacks to mayor in exchange for receiving $86+million in contracts.

• Representationof an attorney-defendant charged with racketeering and money launderingviolations required multiple appearances in the courts of the Bahamas, theChannel Islands (Jersey), Anguilla, and the Netherlands Antilles to litigateissues arising from foreign banking laws, subpoena powers, and foreign documentproduction in the United States.

• Representationin the Northern District of New York of a defendant charged with moneylaundering conspiracy and wire fraud by engaging in financial transactions withfunds derived from alcohol and cigarette sales designed to evade payment ofCanadian excise taxes. Issues relating to the criminalization of foreignfiscal offenses were briefed and litigated over an 18 month pretrial period.

• Knownas the Wedtech Case, this case, prosecuted in the Southern District of NewYork, required 2 years of pretrial litigation of complex issues arising fromthe governments unprecedented expansion of the federal racketeering statuteand claim of entitlement to the defendants Swiss banking records, inconjunction with the organization and review of 4 million+ discovery documents,in preparation for the ensuing 6 month trial.

• Representationof the owner of the Aladdin Hotel, charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraudin the District of Nevada, required 2 years pretrial preparation involving 1million+ documents and 100+ potential government witnesses, the 8 month trial,in which 6000+ government defense exhibits were admitted in evidence,resulted in the acquittal of all 8 defendants.

• Representationof the alleged head of the Gambino Crime Family entailed 1? years of analysisof 500+ hours of video and audio electronic surveillance and 1000+ pages ofdiscovery reports, as preparation for the 4 month trial in the Eastern Districtof New York on the governments charges of 14 homicides and violent crimes inaid of racketeering activity.

• Representationof defendant in the first prosecution in the United States of the leader of aforeign country (Turks Caicos), novel legal questions regardingdiplomatic immunity and jurisdictional issues were briefed and litigated priorto the 3 month trial on Travel Act and conspiracy charges.

• Representationof the owner of the Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, and 4 banks inMinneapolis? St. Paul, in the District of Minnesota, on charges of bank fraudand tax evasion arising from a 2 year multi-jurisdictional investigationgenerating 1 million+ documents and 100+ potential government witnesses, trialof the matter lasted 5 months.

• Representationin the Eastern District of Michigan of the countrys leading bankruptcyattorney, charged in 2 indictments with bankruptcy fraud and obstruction ofjustice, pretrial preparation involved analysis of 1 million+ discoverydocuments and 75+ witnesses prior to 2 trials, each lasting 3 months.

• Representationof the alleged head of the Bonanno Crime Family in the Northern District ofCalifornia on obstruction of justices charges included litigation concerningthe governments evidence-gathering methods through searches andelectronic surveillance, together with significant right of privacy issues.

• Representationof a defendant in the Synanon Cases?? prosecutions which were 10 years inthe making and brought in both the District of Columbia and the EasternDistrict of California, charging Synanon members with multiple acts of terrorand obstruction of justice, consistent with the governments theory that thegroup was a violent cult, constitutional issues regarding rights of freedom ofassociation and freedom from selective prosecution were litigated in bothdistricts during the 2+ years of trial preparation.

• Representationin a 5 month racketeering trial, in the Eastern District of Missouri, of thedefendant alleged to be leader of the St. Louis Crime Syndicate, who wasresponsible for 8 homicides, the prosecution was the result of a 3 yeargovernment investigation and 300+ hours of electronic surveillance tapes.

• Representationof an attorney-defendant in the Southern District of Florida corruption andracketeering case, known as Operation Court Broom, in which theattorney-defendants were charged with paying kickbacks to state court judges inexchange for court appointments, pretrial preparation involved 1+ year ofanalysis of court files prior to 2 month trial.