Barbara A. Martinez

• Tried more than 20 federal jury trials and 30 bench trials in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, including the following federal trials:
  • six-week international sex trafficking case involving the victimization of minors in Honduras
  • month-long sex trafficking case involving 50 adult victims from across the U.S.
  • two-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against the owner of a medical clinic
  • three-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against two physicians
  • week-long international sex tourism case involving the sexual exploitation of more than 100 minors in Cuba and Ecuador for the production, importation and sale of child pornography
  • nine-day, multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Education fraud case against the owners of a vocational school
• Supervised and led federal assistant U.S. attorneys in the Special Prosecutions Section handling cases involving international and domestic human trafficking, money laundering, child exploitation, cybercrimes, including internet crimes against children, sextortion, extortion and cyberstalking, violent crimes involving death or serious bodily injury, international kidnappings and other transnational crimes
• Supervised and trained assistant U.S. attorneys in the Majors Crimes Section handling identity theft, fraud, violent crime, alien smuggling and immigration cases
• Led and coordinated efforts to combat human trafficking and child exploitation as the human trafficking coordinator and the project childhood coordinator for the Southern District of Florida for more than a decade, spearheaded coordination efforts among law enforcement, prosecutors, foreign governments, regulatory entities, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and community members nationally and globally to combat human trafficking and child exploitation
• Served as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Child Exploitation Nationwide Investigation Advisory Committee from July 2014 to February 2020
• Served a two-year term as a member of the DOJ's Capital Review Committee from April 2012 to April 2014
• Prosecuted cases involving healthcare fraud, mail and wire fraud, computer intrusion, identity theft and credit card fraud as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Economic Crimes Section in Miami
• Served as a DOJ trial attorney for the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C., through the Attorney General's Honors Program, prosecuting complex white collar cases involving bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, government program fraud, telemarketing fraud, false statements and obstruction of justice
• Created and conducted anti-trafficking and anti-money laundering training sessions for law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and members of the financial industry throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries, including Mexico, The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria and Iceland; taught trial advocacy sessions to law enforcement and prosecutors in Chile and computer crimes session to representatives of financial institutions in Peru

• Representation of a multinational company in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Representation of an international communications company in conducting a global compliance review related to the FCPA
• Representation of an executive officer in an internal investigation stemming from a False Claims Act (FCA) investigation by the DOJ
• Representation of a businesswoman in defending against allegations of international money laundering
• Representation of a global outsourcing service company victimized by a cyber-phishing scam in reporting and compliance relating to the fraudulent scheme
• Representation of an executive officer for an international company in defending against a state criminal investigation involving allegations of theft of product samples and related offenses
• Representation of a business owner in defending against allegations of violating the FCPA by DOJ
• Appointed as a receiver by a federal court to identify, locate, liquidate and receive assets for victims of a more than $300 million fraud and to assess potential claims on behalf of the receivership
• Representation of a financial institution in advising regarding due diligence and a pending DOJ civil investigation
• Representation of a global service company in advising regarding compliance with the United Kingdom (U.K.) Modern Slavery Act
• Representation of an international consulting firm in reporting and compliance relating to the discovery of child pornography

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Matters

• Tried more than 20 federal jury trials and 30 bench trials in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, including the following federal trials:
  
  
  • six-week international sex trafficking case involving the victimization of minors in Honduras
  • month-long sex trafficking case involving 50 adult victims from across the U.S.
  • two-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against the owner of a medical clinic
  • three-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against two physicians
  • week-long international sex tourism case involving the sexual exploitation of more than 100 minors in Cuba and Ecuador for the production, importation and sale of child pornography
  • nine-day, multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Education fraud case against the owners of a vocational school
• Supervised and led federal assistant U.S. attorneys in the Special Prosecutions Section handling cases involving international and domestic human trafficking, money laundering, child exploitation, cybercrimes, including internet crimes against children, sextortion, extortion and cyberstalking, violent crimes involving death or serious bodily injury, international kidnappings and other transnational crimes
• Supervised and trained assistant U.S. attorneys in the Majors Crimes Section handling identity theft, fraud, violent crime, alien smuggling and immigration cases
• Led and coordinated efforts to combat human trafficking and child exploitation as the human trafficking coordinator and the project childhood coordinator for the Southern District of Florida for more than a decade, spearheaded coordination efforts among law enforcement, prosecutors, foreign governments, regulatory entities, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and community members nationally and globally to combat human trafficking and child exploitation
• Served as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Child Exploitation Nationwide Investigation Advisory Committee from July 2014 to February 2020
• Served a two-year term as a member of the DOJ's Capital Review Committee from April 2012 to April 2014
• Prosecuted cases involving healthcare fraud, mail and wire fraud, computer intrusion, identity theft and credit card fraud as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Economic Crimes Section in Miami
• Served as a DOJ trial attorney for the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C., through the Attorney General's Honors Program, prosecuting complex white collar cases involving bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, government program fraud, telemarketing fraud, false statements and obstruction of justice
• Created and conducted anti-trafficking and anti-money laundering training sessions for law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and members of the financial industry throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries, including Mexico, The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria and Iceland; taught trial advocacy sessions to law enforcement and prosecutors in Chile and computer crimes session to representatives of financial institutions in Peru