Eliot F. Krieger

Areas Of Practice
Criminal Defense
Civil Litigation
Business Litigation
Native American Law
Gaming Law
Immigration

Education
Harvard Law School
* J.D. (Cum Laude)

The Johns Hopkins University
* Ph.D. - Philosophy
* M.A. - Philosophy

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
* Predoctorial Fellowship

University Of California, Los Angeles
* B.A. (Magna Cum Laude)
* Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions
State of California
US District Court
Central District of California
Eastern District of California
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Professional Experience
* United States Department of Justice
  Central District of California- Criminal Division
   Los Angeles, California
   Assistant United States Attorney

Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section

Prosecuted white-collar crime. Cases included public corruption, money-laundering, health care fraud, HUD fraud and immigration fraud.

Prosecuted and tried only case in the Central District that convicted defendant of money-laundering for the purposes of tax evasion.

Trials included:
- United States v. Sorochkin (weapons);
- United States v. Batista (bank fraud, identity theft);
- United States v. Ramirez-Molina (immigration);
- United States v. Boujaoude (passport fraud);
- United States v. Laser Eye Center (health care 
   fraud);
- United States v. Greybor Medical
  Transportation (fraud, money laundering, tax
   evasion)

Received award from FBI for Laser Eye Center prosecution.

Served as Indian Crimes Coordinator and Tribal Liaison for the Central District of California. Coordinated all tribal issues involving the United States Attorney's Office arising in the Central District of California.

Served as Immigration Fraud Coordinator.

Headed Department of Justice pilot program designed to effectively prosecute fraud crimes perpetrated against undocumented aliens.

Served as member of Immigration Fraud Task Force.

Served as chairperson of multi-jurisdictional task force targeting fraud perpetrated by immigration consultants and attorneys. Law enforcement members of the task force included representatives from the United States Attorney's Office—Los Angeles County; the District Attorney's Office—City of Los Angeles; the California Attorney General's Office; the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the California State Bar. Full task force also included non-law enforcement groups, including the Mexican American Bar Association, the Coalition for Human Rights, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and a US Immigration Courts judge.

* Central District of California—Civil Division
   Los Angeles, California Assistant United States
  Attorney

Civil litigation defending the United States of America

Argued cases involving allegations of torts, constitutional torts and Title VII violations.

Areas of litigation included:

* National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA):

Defended US Navy in environmental protection suit brought by community activists to halt demolition of former Long Beach Naval
Station. Prevailed in District Court, on appeal to Ninth Circuit. (Howser v. City of Long Beach, et al)

* Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA):

Defended civil action brought by Hasidic inmate against the Federal Bureau of Prisons for injunctive relief involving 200 religious accommodations under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Won summary judgment on all but five accommodations. Case settled after trial. Received Special Service Award September 14, 1998, for work on this litigation. (Rabbi Low v. Warden)

* Indian law:

Brought actions for injunctive relief, declaratory relief and asset forfeiture against nine Indian tribes operating large-scale casinos. Court granted judgment for the United States and ordered cessation of gaming at the casinos. Ninth Circuit stayed injunction. (United States v. Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians, et al)

Coordinated statewide litigation with other districts and the Department of Justice regarding such gaming. Case mooted by the passage of Proposition 1A.

Represented Indian allottees in eminent domain case (City of Palm Springs v. 16.88 Acres of Land)

* Morrison & Foerster  (Hufstedler & Kaus --
   firms merged in 1995) Los Angeles, California
   Litigation Associate

Areas of litigation included:

* Legal Malpractice:

Defended $7 million legal malpractice allegation brought against former city attorney by a municipality. (City of Baldwin Park v. Greenberg, Glusker, et al.) Won major motion. Case settled.

* Corporate/Entertainment:

Head Associate in defense of $1.4 billion fraud lawsuit (MGM v Tracinda, et al.) Obtained favorable judgment on the pleadings. Won case.

Handled appeal of conspiracy to commit fraud suit brought by television show creator against syndicator. (Kidron v. Claster Television). Won appeal in unanimous decision.

* Securities Fraud:

Defended client in $100 million class-action securities fraud litigation. (In re ZZZZ Best Securities Litigation) Case settled.

* Estates:

Defended $50 million action brought by estate of deceased against surviving spouse. (In the Matter of the Estate of Neenah Minerva Rosenberg, Decedent)

Judicial Clerkship

Judge Stephen S. Trott, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, Judicial Clerk
 

Teaching Experience

* University of Southern California, Los
  Angeles,  California
   - Adjunct Professor / Instructor
   - White Collar Crime

* Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
  Massachusetts
   - Teaching Fellow / Instructor
   - "Thinking about Thinking—Integrating Law,
     Philosophy & Science"

* University of Maryland at Baltimore County
   - Visiting Assistant Professor (Part-Time)—
     Philosophy Department
 

Presentations
16th Annual American Immigration Lawyers Association, California Chapter
- Government Investigations—I-9s, LCA's, and
  Other Immigration-Related Investigations

Tribal and State Law Enforcement Summit, Rancho Mirage, California
- Remarks on Federal Law Enforcement in
  Indian Country within the Central District of
  California

Federal Bureau of Investigation Conference on Gambling. Las Vegas, Nevada
- Civil Enforcement of the Indian Gaming
  Regulatory Act

Southern California Philosophy Conference
University of California Irvine, California
- Rifts Over RFRA—Divergent Approaches to
  the Free Exercise Clause

California State University, Long Beach Pre-Law Program, Long Beach, California
- The Utility of a Philosophy Degree for
  Lawyers

Publications/Authorships
- "Protected Expression: Towards a Speaker-
  Oriented Theory,"  73 Denver Law Review 69

- "The Court Declines in Fairness—Teague v.
  Lane," 25 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties
  Law Review 184