John D. Russell
Shareholder/DirectorTulsa Office
The Kennedy Building
321 South Boston, Suite 800
Tulsa, OK 74103-3318
T (918) 599-0621
F (918) 583-9659
jrussell@fellerssnider.com
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Mr. Russell has conducted internal investigations for, and otherwise represented, numerous public and private companies and their boards and committees. For these clients, he has handled matters involving a wide range of issues, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate and accounting fraud, securities fraud, health care fraud, tax fraud, lending practice violations, and public corruption. Mr. Russell also represents executives and directors of such entities.
In connection with these matters, Mr. Russell regularly represents clients in court and before the United States Department of Justice, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies.
As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Russell personally investigated, charged, and tried to verdict a wide range of white-collar crimes, including securities fraud, corporate and accounting fraud, public corruption, tax fraud, health care fraud, and money laundering. Mr. Russell was the Appellate Coordinator for the Criminal Division from 1998 through 2000. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Mr. Russell was a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Tax Division in Washington, D.C.
As a defense attorney, Mr. Russell obtained an acquittal for a client in the Eastern District of Virginia in a fraud against the government case. Mr. Russell also successfully represented the former chairman of an insurance company and third-party administrator charged with health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering . In addition to charged cases, Mr. Russell has successfully represented numerous clients by obtaining a declination of charges by the government before being charged.
