John G. Martin
111 Great Neck Road
Sixth Floor
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone 516-393-2214
Fax 516-466-5964
jmartin@garfunkelwild.com |
Practice
Groups
Appellate
Litigation
Compliance and White Collar Defense
Litigation & Arbitration
Year Joined
2008
Education
St. John’s University School of Law
J.D., 1984
Dean’s List
Senior Board Moot Court
Kramer Dilloff
Tessel Duffy and Moore Award for
Oral Advocacy
University of Arizona, B.A., 1981, Honors Degree
Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1985
Court Admission(s)
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New
York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of New York
Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Other Affiliation(s)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
American Health Lawyers Association |
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Biography
John Martin is a Partner at Garfunkel Wild, P.C., which he joined in February, 2008. He is a member
of the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration, and Compliance
and White Collar Defense Groups, which handle a broad
array of civil, regulatory and criminal litigation
matters.
Mr. Martin’s practice includes representation of both
individuals and organizations in civil litigations and
in connection with state and federal regulatory and
criminal investigations or prosecutions. He has
particular experience in complex litigations and white
collar criminal matters, and he has represented New York
Downtown Hospital, Montefiore Hospital, Cabrini Medical
Center, South Nassau Communities Hospital, and Long
Beach Medical Center, in civil litigations in the
Supreme and Federal Courts of New York, Queens, Nassau,
Suffolk and Westchester Counties. Mr. Martin has also
represented Arkwin Industries in a multi-million dollar
environmental litigation in the Federal District Court
for the Eastern District of New York.
Prior to joining Garfunkel Wild,
P.C., Mr. Martin was
both a state and federal prosecutor, and during this
period he conducted over 35 felony jury trials and
handled approximately 100 criminal appeals. Mr. Martin
began his career in the Appeals Bureau of the Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office, where he argued cases in
numerous appellate courts, including the Appellate
Division, First Department, the New York Court of
Appeals and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. While
in the Appeals Bureau Mr. Martin also drafted New York
Penal Law Section 470, the first Money Laundering
statute enacted in New York State. Shortly after he
moved to the Trial Division of the District Attorney’s
Office Mr. Martin handled some of the office’s most
serious and sensitive cases, including murders, police
shootings and complex gang prosecutions. One of Mr.
Martin’s high profile murder trials, People v. Kevin McKiever, was broadcast on the Court TV network. During
his last seven years at the District Attorney’s Office
Mr. Martin was a Deputy Bureau Chief and he supervised a
staff of over 50 attorneys and participated actively in
the training of Assistant District Attorneys in trial
advocacy and complex criminal investigations.
Mr. Martin left the New York County District Attorney’s
Office in 2003 to become an Assistant United States
Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. In that
office Mr. Martin focused on complex white collar
criminal cases, including securities fraud, insider
trading, health care fraud, and money laundering, and he
successfully conducted several securities fraud trials
involving C.E.O.s of publicly traded corporations. Mr.
Martin also investigated and brought insider trading,
securities, mail, wire and tax fraud charges against the
former C.E.O. and senior executives of D.H.B. Industries
Inc., a Westbury, Long Island-based manufacturing firm
responsible for supplying the majority of body armor for
the U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the D.H.B.
case the U.S. Attorney’s office was able to seize nearly
$200 million in criminal proceeds as a result of Mr.
Martin’s investigation, one of the largest seizures in
the office’s history.
Mr. Martin received his B.A. from the University of
Arizona and his J.D. from St. John’s University School
of Law. |
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