Charles La Bella

Charles La Bella is an American attorney and founding partner of La Bella & McNamara, LLP which specialized in civil litigation, internal corporate investigations, investigations and enforcement actions by regulatory agencies, corporate governance and compliance counseling, and white collar criminal defense. Charles La Bella returned to government service in November 2010 and is currently a Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section in the U. S. Department of Justice.

Prior to co-founding La Bella & McNamara, La Bella worked for over 16 years as a federal prosecutor in the Southern Districts of New York and California, and Washington, D.C. La Bella also served as Senior Vice President and Special Counsel at Peregrine Systems, coordinating an internal investigation into accounting irregularities.^[1]

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno named La Bella to head up a task force looking at possible violations of federal campaign finance laws during the 1996 presidential election. In July 1998, La Bella recommended to Reno she seek an independent counsel to investigate alleged illegal foreign contributions to the Democratic party.^[2]

La Bella graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} La Bella & McNamara, LLP website Retrieved April 7, 2006
2. ^ Thomas, Pierre, "Reno Aide Recommends Independent Campaign Finance Probe", CNN.com, July 23, 1998

External links

• Official La Bella Memo

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