John Martin represents both individuals and organizations, including Hospitals and Long Term Care Facilities, in regulatory and criminal investigations, compliance matters, as well as in civil and criminal litigations. With a particular expertise in Health Care Fraud, and False Claims Act (Qui Tam) cases, John has not only been successful at enabling his clients to avoid litigation, but he has frequently prevailed over the government and regulatory agencies when litigation was unavoidable. Over the past several years John has won acquittals for a number of Health Care providers in both federal and state criminal cases. John has also prevailed in high stakes civil litigations and arbitrations, and he has repeatedly negotiated extremely favorable resolutions of both civil and criminal Health Care Fraud matters.

Prior to joining Garfunkel Wild, P.C., John was both a state and federal prosecutor, and during this period he conducted over 35 felony jury trials and handled approximately 100 criminal appeals.  John began his career in the Appeals Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he argued cases in numerous appellate courts, including the Appellate Division, First Department, the New York Court of Appeals and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  While in the Appeals Bureau John also drafted New York Penal Law Section 470, the first Money Laundering statute enacted in New York State.  Shortly after he moved to the Trial Division of the District Attorney’s Office John handled some of the office’s most serious and sensitive cases, including murders, police shootings and complex gang prosecutions.

One of John’s high profile murder trials, People v. Kevin McKiever, was broadcast on the Court TV network.  During his last seven years at the District Attorney’s Office John was a Deputy Bureau Chief and he supervised a staff of over 50 attorneys and participated actively in the training of Assistant District Attorneys in trial advocacy and complex criminal investigations.

John left the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 2003 to become an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York.  In that office John focused on complex white collar criminal cases, including securities fraud, insider trading, health care fraud, and money laundering, and he successfully conducted several securities fraud trials involving C.E.O.s of publicly traded corporations.  John also investigated and brought insider trading, securities, mail, wire and tax fraud charges against the former C.E.O. and senior executives of D.H.B. Industries Inc., a Westbury, Long Island-based manufacturing firm responsible for supplying the majority of body armor for the U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In the D.H.B. case the U.S. Attorney’s office was able to seize nearly $200 million in criminal proceeds as a result of John’s investigation, one of the largest seizures in the office’s history.