BakerHostetler Adds New York White Collar Partner Carlos Ortiz

Carlos Ortiz has joined BakerHostetler’s litigation practice group and white collar team as a partner in New York, the law firm said Wednesday.

Ortiz was chair Blank Rome’s white-collar defense team and previously served as acting chief of the criminal division at the United States Attorney’s Office in New Jersey. He has advised on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, fraud allegations against government agencies and financial institutions, securities and health care fraud, and tax controversies, according to BakerHostetler.

“His years of experience as an Army JAG officer, as a DOJ Tax Division prosecutor in Washington and as an AUSA, coupled with more than a decade as a leading complex criminal defense attorney, makes him the perfect addition to our deep white-collar bench of former prosecutors and expands our footprint in sophisticated criminal tax matters,” said George Stamboulidis, managing partner of the firm’s New York office.

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