About Edward Sapone

Edward V. Sapone is a founding partner of Sapone & Petrillo, LLP. He concentrates his practice on federal criminal defense and white-collar litigation. Mr. Sapone has spent his entire career defending people and corporations accused of crimes.

For more than 20 years, Mr. Sapone has tried an extraordinary number of cases as lead trial counsel. He has gained acquittals in federal courts for clients indicted for the most serious crimes such as multi-million-dollar fraud, structuring financial transactions, conspiracies, large-scale narcotics trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, alien smuggling, and other offenses.

He also has consistently won in state court—from the most severe murder cases to trials including the assault of CIA agents protecting Barbara and Jenna Bush, wife and daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, and other crimes. Mr. Sapone also has negotiated hundreds of dismissals, deferred prosecutions, and other favorable resolutions for those clients who did not wish to proceed to trial.

Mr. Sapone also has been retained by civil firms, plaintiffs, and defendants to try their labor law cases. He has won millions of dollars in verdicts for plaintiffs and has prevented millions of dollars in verdicts for defendants.