Yale T. Freeman, P.A. offers broad-based legal expertise and a personal approach to client representation. Mr. Freeman’s conceptual, analytical and strategic management of cases has earned the admiration of both colleagues and clients.

Historical Cases of Distinction

  • REPRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS IN U.S.A. V. SABRETECH, STATE OF FLORIDA V. SABRETECH – Criminal, administrative, and civil wrongful death proceedings arising out of the ValueJet air crash in the Florida Everglades.  Representation of these clients occurred over the course of a seven-year investigation and included a three-year federal grand jury investigation, indictment, trial and appeal, a state homicide investigation and indictment, and various administrative investigations and proceedings by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Transportation Safety Board and the United States Congress.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYEES IN A FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION into the business practices of a security company that provided passenger screening services to major airlines at airports throughout the United States.  Participated in an internal investigation into the company’s practices, and in the development of a presentation that resulted in no charges being filed against the company or any individuals.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF A HELICOPTER PARTS MANUFACTURER AND DISTRIBUTOR under investigation for selling military parts to Iran in violation of Defense and Commerce Department regulations. Although others in the same investigation were prosecuted, convicted and received prison terms, the government ultimately declined prosecution of the president, the main target of the investigation.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF A PHYSICIAN WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF AN EXTENSIVE NARCOTICS INVESTIGATION by the Drug Enforcement Administration and in the license revocation proceedings associated with that investigation.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF A PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY ORGANIZATION providing healthcare products in a Medicare fraud and narcotics investigation.  No charges were ever initiated.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF CECILIA MARCILLO-AVILES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. EDGAR NAKACHE, SUSAN AVILES, AND CECILIA MARCILLO-AVILES, A/K/A “ANA CECILIA MARCILLO MUIRRAGUI” - Joint Interpol and FBI investigation concerning allegations of the smuggling and sale of $5 million worth of pre-Columbian artifacts from the country of Ecuador.  The government was persuaded to refrain from returning an indictment for these charges being investigated.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF AN EMPLOYEE OF A CRUISE LINE BASED OUT OF MIAMI IN A FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION looking into a fatal accident which occurred on board the vessel. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF A DENTAL PRACTICE AND ITS PRINCIPALS pertaining to allegations of sexual misconduct directed toward the practitioners.  No charges were filed.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF A COMPANY OWNER AND THE COMPANY which distributed scrap metal to industrial smelting firms throughout the United States.  One load of metal exploded when placed in a customer’s foundry, killing two workers.  The clients faced investigation and prosecution for homicide and environmental offenses.  No charges were ever initiated.

  •  REPRESENTATION OF FRANTZ BIAMBY IN U.S.A. V. BIAMBY - An international political drug conspiracy which was the basis for the invasion of Haiti by President Bill Clinton. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF ALBERTO RUIZ IN U.S.A. V. RUIZ - Money Laundering Investigation - Pre-cursor for Operation Swordfish.  No prosecution. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF ARNOLD SALINAS AND DON BOOTH IN ADVANTAGE FUND V. BOOTH/SALINAS - An SEC criminal investigation and complex civil litigation relative to multiple entities attempting to gain control of a national telecommunications company based in Houston, Texas – no prosecution. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF A FLORIDA-BASED CONSTRUCTION COMPANY pertaining to a corporate takeover by the lender, internal fraud investigations relative to a principal, pending complex civil litigation in state and federal courts in multiple jurisdictions, and public corruption concerns. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF COMMISSIONER TIM HANCOCK IN STATE V. JOHN NORRIS, ET AL – Public corruption and RICO (racketeering) prosecution in Collier County (“Stadium Naples”). 

  • REPRESENTATION OF CRAIG GOODIE IN STATE OF FLORIDA V. GOODIE AND KEHL - The first economic crimes prosecution of an organized fraud in Collier County relative to the AIO stock scheme and Florida Security law violations - Dismissal. 

  • REPRESENTATION OF VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS AND BANKING INSTITUTIONS IN FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATIONS relative to money laundering and money structuring. These  included matters involving offshore influences.

  • The most significant civil matter defended was the wrongful death claims by 110 families out of the ValueJet air crash in the Florida Everglades.

 

 

Current Cases of Distinction

  • REPRESENTATION OF A KEY EMPLOYEE OF A CRUISE LINE in an internal corporate investigation, and an investigation initiated by the United States Attorney’s Office and the United States Department of Fish and Wildlife services pertaining to violations of the Endangered Species Act.

  • REPRESENTATION OF ERIK AND KRIS RODRIGUEZ IN STATE OF FLORIDA V. ERIK A. RODRIGUEZ AND STATE OF FLORIDA V. KRIS A. RODRIGUEZ – A multi-defendant RICO (racketeering), Internet pharmacy conspiracy case.

  • REPRESENTATION OF A MULTI-STATE TITLE COMPANY’S ALLEGED DEFALCATION in excess of $10 million dollars.

  • REPRESENTATION OF A DENTAL PRACTICE AND ITS PRINCIPALS who had been victimized by a group of employees through the operation of a significant scheme to defraud.  Civil and criminal prosecutions were facilitated on behalf of the practice and the practitioners.                                    

  • REPRESENTATION OF A REGIONAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY unable to finalize and build planned projects, and facing allegations pertaining to civil theft and RICO (racketeering).