PERSON: Todd Blanche
Employer
Blanche Law
Position
Founding Partner
Biography
Blanche is a former federal prosecutor. His move to join Trump’s legal team comes after leaving New York City’s oldest law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft where he was a partner for five years.
The lawyer’s decision to part ways with the white-collar defense and investigations practice was learned via an email sent from Blanch to the firm. Politico obtained the email and was the first to report the news.
“I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up,” Blanche said in the note.
Before his tenure at the N.Y.C. law firm, Blanche served as former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years. He has extensive experience in white-collar cases that involve investigating and prosecuting tax fraud, money laundering, Medicaid and federal programs frauds, bank and wire frauds, racketeering, homicides, armed robberies, firearms and narcotics offenses.
Blanche has experience representing political figures associated with Trump, including Paul Manafort. The politician’s former campaign chairman from May to August 2016, Manafort worked with Blanche after the Manhattan D.A.O. indicted him in 2019 on charges of mortgage fraud and other state felonies.
Manafort was charged as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in 2019 and pleaded guilty to foreign lobbying and witness tampering, as well as tax fraud and conspiracy. (Manafort was sentenced to over seven years in prison.)
Additionally, he faced financial crime charges related largely to his lobbying work in Ukraine.
Blanche also defended Rudy Guiliani’s associate Igor Fruman, who agreed to a plea deal in a campaign finance case that landed him a one-year prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to foreign campaign violations and was sentenced in January 2022.
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The lawyer’s decision to part ways with the white-collar defense and investigations practice was learned via an email sent from Blanch to the firm. Politico obtained the email and was the first to report the news.
“I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up,” Blanche said in the note.
Before his tenure at the N.Y.C. law firm, Blanche served as former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years. He has extensive experience in white-collar cases that involve investigating and prosecuting tax fraud, money laundering, Medicaid and federal programs frauds, bank and wire frauds, racketeering, homicides, armed robberies, firearms and narcotics offenses.
Blanche has experience representing political figures associated with Trump, including Paul Manafort. The politician’s former campaign chairman from May to August 2016, Manafort worked with Blanche after the Manhattan D.A.O. indicted him in 2019 on charges of mortgage fraud and other state felonies.
Manafort was charged as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in 2019 and pleaded guilty to foreign lobbying and witness tampering, as well as tax fraud and conspiracy. (Manafort was sentenced to over seven years in prison.)
Additionally, he faced financial crime charges related largely to his lobbying work in Ukraine.
Blanche also defended Rudy Guiliani’s associate Igor Fruman, who agreed to a plea deal in a campaign finance case that landed him a one-year prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to foreign campaign violations and was sentenced in January 2022.
>> People.com
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