Matt joins Scale LLP after a distinguished, sixteen-year career as a federal prosecutor, where he led or assisted in numerous high-profile fraud and public corruption prosecutions. From 2022 through 2024, Matt served as an Assistant Special Counsel under Special Counsel Jack L. Smith in the investigation of the efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election and the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. Matt further assisted in the prosecution of a former president that arose from that investigation.

Prior to his service as an Assistant Special Counsel, Matt worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he held the role of Public Corruption Coordinator, reviewing all corruption-related charging and plea documents throughout the District. During his time in EDVA, Matt gained extensive experience in investigating, charging, and trying complex fraud and public corruption offenses, many of which involved crimes committed by or against defense, intelligence, and civilian contractors. Matt’s work in EDVA included the prosecution of bribery, kickbacks, government procurement fraud, False Claims Act violations, embezzlement, investment fraud, money laundering, health care fraud, insurance fraud, insider trading, and theft of trade secrets.

Before his time in EDVA, Matt served as an AUSA at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District ofIllinois, where he prosecuted organized crime, money laundering, identity theft, complex fraud, violent crime, narcotics offenses, and corruption-related offenses. Before his service as a federal prosecutor, Matt practiced complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense at an elite international law firm. At the beginning of his legal career, Matt served as a law clerk to Judge Benson E. Legg on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, and to Judge Joel M. Flaum on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

‍

Representative Matters:

• Assisted in the investigation by the Special Counsel’s Office of the efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election and the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021, and in the prosecution of a former president that arose from that investigation.
• Led the government’s multiagency investigation and prosecution of a conspiracy by a government subcontractor to bribe an official within the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (“DOD OIG”), to pay illegal kickbacks to multiple senior executives at a global telecommunications company, and to submit fraudulent claims to the DOD OIG that were approved by the corrupt official. Successfully negotiated the cooperation of a central member of the conspiracy, despite the lead defendant threatening to murder the cooperator and his family. Served as first chair at the trial of the remaining defendants, securing convictions on all counts.
• Led a team of ten law-enforcement agencies in the government’s investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of an imposter falsely posing as a covert CIA operative. The imposter had infiltrated the United States government, created a fake classified program, duped numerous real intelligence officials into unwittingly assisting his scheme, defrauded over one dozen private companies into paying him a salary as supposed “commercial cover,” and embedded himself into a government procurement process whereby he was poised to corrupt $3.7 billion in federal contracts when the investigation disrupted the scheme.
• Led the government’s multi-agency investigation and prosecution of a conspiracy to pay bribes to a Department of Commerce official in exchange for the official steering data-migration contracts to the bribe payor’s company. Negotiated the cooperation of the bribe payor. Served as first chair at the trial of the public official who accepted the bribes, securing conviction on all counts. Briefed and orally argued the case on appeal to the Fourth Circuit, securing affirmance.
• Led the government’s investigation, prosecution, trial, and sentencing of a corrupt Loudoun County Deputy Sheriff for a years-long scheme to defraud and embezzle funds from the Sheriff’s Office’s asset forfeiture program.  Briefed the case on appeal to the Fourth Circuit, securing affirmance.
• Led the government’s investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of a corrupt Pentagon Police Officer, who also served as the Chairman of the Pentagon Police Labor Union, for a years-long scheme to defraud and embezzle funds from the Union.
• Led the government’s investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of a four-time convicted felon for operating an investment fraud scheme under the guise of a startup local newspaper, and for engaging in firearms offenses and illegally seeking to have his firearm rights restored by perpetrating a fraud on the Loudoun County Circuit Court.
• Led the government’s investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of a decade-long, multimillion-dollar kickback and embezzlement conspiracy orchestrated from within the information technology department of a local company.
• Investigated and prosecuted a foreign corporation for conspiring to steal and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of a domestic company’s trade secrets relating to the development and manufacture of para-aramid fiber.
• Spearheaded the government’s multi-year investigation into an international fraud and money laundering ring that stole victims’ financial information throughout Europe, transmitted the information to co-conspirators located in Chicago, conducted fraudulent transactions using victims’ information in the United States, and laundered the proceeds back to co-conspirators located in Europe.  Investigation yielded indictments charging seventeen defendants, including the leading member of Bulgarian organized crime in Chicago, foreign nationals operating outside of the United States, and the owner/operator of a money transmitting business.
• Investigated, prosecuted, and sentenced an international tax-fraud ring that used the identities of foreign nationals to submit hundreds of fraudulent tax returns, claimed millions of dollars in fraudulent refunds, and diverted the payment of the fraudulent refunds into bank accounts held by a network of co-conspirators located in the United States. Investigation yielded the indictment of twenty-six defendants and convictions of all defendants who did not flee the United States. Briefed and orally argued the related appeals to the Seventh Circuit, securing affirmances against all defendants in all appeals.  
• Prosecuted and sentenced a corrupt Cook County Deputy Sheriff who illegally straw-purchased assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, laser scopes, and associated ammunition for an individual he believed to be a drug dealer with ties to organized crime.
• Prosecuted and sentenced members of a bank robbery conspiracy orchestrated with the knowing cooperation of a bank insider.
• Prosecuted and sentenced members of a conspiracy that attempted the armed robbery of a rival drug trafficking organization as it transported bulk quantities of marijuana across the country.  Briefed and orally argued the related appeals to the Seventh Circuit, securing affirmances in both appeals.
• Led the government’s investigation, prosecution, trial, and sentencing of a telemarketing scheme that targeted more than 100 merchants across the country, fraudulently obtained their financial information, and then exploited gaps in the Automated Clearing House payments system to conduct millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions on the victims’ accounts. Briefed and orally argued the case on appeal to the Seventh Circuit, securing affirmance.
• Led the government’s multi-year investigation and prosecution of a violent Chicago street gang. The investigation yielded indictments and convictions of the top echelon of the gang’s leadership in federal court and charges against the second tier of the gang in state court.
• Briefed and orally argued in opposition to the appeals of a ring of corrupt Chicago Police Officers and their drug-dealing associates who operated a criminal enterprise using the pretext of traffic stops and residential searches to rob local drug dealers, steal their cocaine, and resell the drugs. Secured affirmance of all convictions and sentences.

‍

Awards and Honors:

• Three-time recipient of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Service Award
• Two-time recipient of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys Director’s Award for Superior Performance by an Assistant United States Attorney
• Recipient of the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service
• Recipient of the Award for Excellence in Investigation by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
• Recipient of awards from the FBI Chicago Field Office and IRS Criminal Investigation Chicago Field Office in recognition of work prosecuting organized crime.

‍