Jim Rodio is a trial attorney with extensive experience representing corporations and individuals in white collar matters and complex civil litigation. He has extensive trial experience in both civil and criminal matters in federal and state courts including trust and estate litigation and federal tax controversies.
Typical white collar matters include representation during grand jury investigations, after indictment and through trial and sentencing for a variety of charges including tax fraud, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, and RICO. Mr. Rodio has significant experience in internal investigations for a variety of private and publicly traded corporations. compliance initiatives and false claims cases.
Representative cases include:
- the representation of privately owned and publicly traded corporations as well as individuals during grand jury investigations
- representation of an individual charged with evading more than $5 million of income tax during the grand jury investigation and criminal prosecution
- representation of a publicly traded corporation during a number of internal investigations related to fraud representation of corporations during false claim investigations by U.S. Attorney's Offices
Mr. Rodio's civil litigation experience is varied and includes breach of contract disputes, disputes between government contractors, trust and estate disputes, and class action lawsuits during which he has represented individuals, publicly traded corporations, privately owned corporations and charitable foundations.
Representative cases include:
- the defense of an Indian Tribe in a $175 million claim brought by a developer
- representation of a government contractor in a dispute with a subsidiary
- representation of a government contractor in a dispute over a teaming agreement
representation of a charitable foundation in a dispute over a $50 million estate
- representation of mortgage companies in class action lawsuits involving multi-million dollar claims for alleged violations of the FCRA and FACTA.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Rodio spent 11 years with the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division prosecuting criminal tax, fraud, money laundering and related offenses in a variety of federal districts throughout the country. He ran the largest criminal tax investigation up to that point involving the evasion of more than $1 billion of motor fuel excise taxes.