Joshua R. Hochberg is a partner in the firm’s White Collar Crime practice in the Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on individual and corporate white collar defense, internal investigations, and compliance. He recently completed his work as the Court Appointed Examiner in the Refco Bankruptcy and issued his final report analyzing the responsibility of Refco's professionals for the company's collapse following its Initial Public Offering.
Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Josh was Chief of the Fraud Section, and Deputy Chief for Litigation of the Public Integrity Section, in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. As Chief of the Fraud Section, he developed and implemented policy and directed enforcement initiatives on White Collar Crime issues. Josh organized nationally significant complex investigations and prosecutions of corporate, securities, health care, procurement, and bank fraud matters. He also supervised all Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, and prosecutions nationwide.
Josh helped lead the Department of Justice’s response to the wave of accounting scandals that followed the collapse of Enron Corp. in 2001. Working with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he has negotiated major global settlements of accounting fraud matters. He is highly experienced with evaluating the Department of Justice's expectations for corporate voluntary disclosures, corporate cooperation, and the use of monitors to ensure compliance with the terms of settlements.
Josh has tried major white collar cases. He assembled and supervised high profile Task Forces including as Acting United States Attorney for the Enron investigation. He has worked closely with the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in arranging global settlements of hundreds of millions of dollars in health care matters involving major national providers of care.
Josh has significant experience handling public corruption matters. As Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, he supervised sensitive public corruption investigations of elected officials, government employees and agents, and election law violations.
Josh is a frequent speaker at ABA, SEC, HHS, and Sentencing Commission conferences addressing white collar crime subjects including: health care and procurement fraud; the “McNulty Memo;” corporate compliance and ethics; and FCPA enforcement.
Josh has received the Justice Department’s highest award for litigation, the “Attorney General’s John Marshall Award.” He has also been a recipient of the Criminal Division’s highest award, the “Henry E. Petersen Memorial Award” and a “Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service.”
