John G. Martin
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone 516-393-2214
Fax 516-466-5964
jmartin@gwtlaw.com |
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Practice Groups
Compliance and White Collar Defense
Litigation & Arbitration
Year Joined
2008
Education
St. John’s University School of Law, J.D., 1984
Dean’s List, Senior Board Moot Court, Kramer Dilloff Tessel Duffy and Moore Award for Oral Advocacy
University of Arizona, B.A., 1981, Honors Degree
Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1985
Court Admission(s)
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Biography
John Martin is a Partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., which he joined in February, 2008. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration, and Compliance and White Collar Defense Groups, which handle a broad array of civil, regulatory and criminal litigation matters.
Mr. Martin’s practice includes representation of both individuals and organizations in civil litigations and in connection with state and federal regulatory and criminal investigations or prosecutions. He has particular expertise in complex litigations and white collar criminal matters, and he has represented Montefiore Hospital in a civil litigation in Supreme Court, New York County, and Arkwin Industries in environmental litigation in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Prior to joining Garfunkel Wild and Travis Mr. Martin was both a state and federal prosecutor, and during this period he conducted over 35 felony jury trials and handled approximately 100 criminal appeals. Mr. Martin 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 Mr. Martin 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 Mr. Martin handled some of the office’s most serious and sensitive cases, including murders, police shootings and complex gang prosecutions. One of Mr. Martin’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 Mr. Martin 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.
Mr. Martin 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 Mr. Martin specialized in 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. Mr. Martin 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 Mr. Martin’s investigation, one of the largest seizures in the office’s history.
Mr. Martin received his B.A. from the University of Arizona and his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law. |
