Corey R. Amundson

• Currently represent global, national, and emerging companies and executives in civil and criminal matters nationwide led by DOJ’s litigating divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and State AGs involving alleged false claims, healthcare fraud, corruption, illegal discrimination, cybercrimes, deceptive trade practices, and environmental violations.
• Secured dismissal of healthcare fraud indictment in the District of Massachusetts against a product manager for a global medical device and healthcare company, while the company pled guilty and paid over $500 million.
• Defended global tobacco company against class action alleging RICO violations. Matter dismissed following class certification denial.
• Supervised false claims, major frauds, corruption, and national security matters involving foreign and domestic entities, executives, and public officials in over 70 federal districts.
• Lead counsel in prosecution of three engineers for stealing trade secrets from Dow Chemical and selling them to China, culminating in the lead defendant being convicted following a four-week jury trial and the others pleading guilty.
• Lead counsel in prosecution of Honeywell, Inc. for criminal Clean Air Act violations associated with the death of a worker at a chemical manufacturing facility, resulting in a criminal conviction and $12 million in fines and restitution.
• Co-counsel in prosecution of Abbott Labs subsidiary for a healthcare fraud scheme involving kickbacks and off-label promotion, resulting in a global resolution involving over $40 million in criminal and civil penalties.
• Supervised insider trading matter arising from the public sale of a Fortune 500 energy and chemical company, resulting in senior executive and others being convicted.
• Supervised Medicare Fraud Strike Force, in partnership with DOJ, HHS-OIG, and State AGs, which successfully prosecuted more than 80 corporate and individual defendants involving more than $300 million in fraudulent claims.
• Lead counsel in prosecution of accounting firm president, government tax auditor, and prominent business owners for a global multi-million-dollar tax fraud and bribery scheme.
• Lead counsel in prosecution of an Audit Manager with the Internal Revenue Service for criminal conflict of interest and illegally accessing government databases in connection with undisclosed private tax business.
• Lead counsel in prosecution of state deputy insurance commissioner, four mayors, two police chiefs, and city council member arising from the corrupt passage of state and municipal legislation and multi-million-dollar federal procurement fraud and extortion schemes, resulting in four multi-week jury trials on charges under the RICO Act and the longest corruption sentence in Louisiana history.

Corey Amundson is a first-chair trial lawyer, expert at leading and conducting complex corporate investigations on both sides of the table, and former DOJ bipartisan leader and public servant known for his judgment and problem-solving ability in high-stakes enforcement and crisis matters. As a partner of the Special Matters & Government Investigations practice group, he represents corporations, boards of directors, and senior executives in a broad array of government investigations, internal reviews, white-collar and civil litigation.

His experience spans matters involving alleged corporate financial fraud, bribery and corruption, false claims and statements, obstruction, cyber crime, and other enforcement risks across the financial services, energy, life sciences, accounting, defense, chemical, construction, technology & trade secrets, and public sectors. He regularly advises clients facing scrutiny from DOJ and state Attorneys General, congressional committees, Inspectors General, and domestic and international enforcement authorities.

Corey has more than two decades of public service as a career official at DOJ under multiple administrations, both in the field trying cases and leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Louisiana, and in Washington, D.C. as chief of multiple offices. He has tried over 20 federal jury trials, primarily involving complex corporate fraud and bribery & corruption, along with supervising more than 100 trials in over 20 federal districts throughout the U.S. across a wide range of industries.  

In Washington, D.C. at Main Justice, Corey served with distinction for over six years in two roles, first as the Director and Chief Counsel of DOJ’s internal affairs department, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and then as Chief of DOJ’s Public Integrity Section across multiple administrations. He previously served in leadership roles while at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Louisiana for more than fifteen years, including overseeing all civil and criminal litigation for four years as Acting United States Attorney and First Assistant United States Attorney, and leading all criminal matters as Criminal Chief, including as DOJ’s Fifth Circuit representative advising on national criminal policies.

In these capacities he led multiple crisis response efforts and implemented or developed a variety of proactive enforcement initiatives consistent with DOJ priorities, including one of the first healthcare fraud strike forces in the country, the Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, a financial fraud task force focused on data-mining, a lauded multi-agency initiative with the state AG to combat the online sexual exploitation of children, and a violent criminal enterprises strike force targeting gangs and other violent groups.

He also led, as Executive Director, the National Center for Disaster Fraud, a multi-agency entity responsible for coordinating nationwide disaster fraud enforcement, recovery and policies, many of which still are deployed today to address disaster-related fraud. He was a DOJ instructor for 20 years, teaching federal prosecutors and agents how to conduct investigations and try cases at the National Advocacy Center, the FBI Academy, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and was an Adjunct Law Professor at LSU teaching corporate and white collar crime.

During his years of public service, Corey received numerous awards and recognition for outstanding service, including the Assistant Attorney General Award for Exceptional Service, the EOUSA Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team, the HHS-OIG Integrity Award, the IRS-Criminal Investigations Honorary Special Agent Award, the FBI Exceptional Service Award, as well as numerous commendations from the Attorney General, DEA, DHS, FBI, and Treasury.