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FN:Joseph J. Aronica
TEL;WORK:202.776.7824
TEL;FAX:202.478.1885
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N:Aronica; Joseph
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP<br />505 9th Street, N.W., Suite 1000<br />Washington, DC 20004-2166<br />USA<br />
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NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Joseph J. Aronica, a trial lawyer with over 25 years of litigation experience, has tried over 40 jury trials and argued numerous appeals in federal courts around the country.  Mr. Aronica serves as vice head of the White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Division of Duane Morris's Trial Practice Group.  Most recently, Mr. Aronica was lead counsel on behalf of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in its special examination of Fannie Mae, which resulted in a settlement by Fannie Mae of $400 million, and in its administrative prosecution of charges against the former CEO, CFO, and controller of Fannie Mae, seeking millions of dollars in penalties.  Mr. Aronica also recently defended, in a jury trial, the former general counsel of a publicly traded company on an indictment alleging insider trading.

Mr. Aronica's practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, securities enforcement, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations and false claims cases, complex civil and  administrative litigation, internal corporate investigations, and compliance and corporate matters. Mr. Aronica has defended corporations, corporate executives, government officials, lawyers and others in a broad range of white collar criminal cases, including securities and commodities, bank, bankruptcy and procurement fraud; tax; customs and export violations; and bribery. He is a frequent lecturer on white collar crime, internal investigations, banking crimes, money laundering and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Aronica was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he served as senior litigation counsel, chief of the Special Prosecutions Group and chief of the Criminal Division. He received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for his role as lead counsel in the "Illwind" nationwide defense procurement fraud investigation. The investigation, praised by Attorney General Janet Reno as "one of the most successful undertaken by the Department of Justice against white collar crime," resulted in 65 convictions of major defense contractors, corporate executives, consultants and high-level government officials, including a former assistant secretary of the Navy and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force and monetary recoveries in excess of $400 million. Mr. Aronica also prosecuted other high-visibility complex cases, including espionage, major arms and technology export violations, securities fraud, tax offenses, murder, healthcare fraud and banking cases, and has handled cases involving the Classified Information Procedures Act and the extensive use of wiretaps.

Mr. Aronica is a member of the American, Virginia and Federal bar associations. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, Virginia, Maryland and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1973), a graduate of the University of Richmond Law School (LL.B., 1969), where he was a member of the University of Richmond Law Review and the McNeill Law Society, and a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A.). Mr. Aronica also holds the rank of colonel in the United States Army (Ret.).

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