Eliot F. Krieger

Eliot F. Krieger is a founding partner of Sullivan, Krieger, Truong, Spagnola & Klausner (“SKT”). Mr. Krieger has over 25 years of trial experience and is regarded as one of the top litigators in Southern California. His comprehensive experience in the courtroom over the last twenty-five years provides him with singular insights as an attorney and has helped him greatly with his practice.

Attorney Eliot F. Krieger is a former Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Central District of California, in both Criminal and Civil Divisions. He has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

State of California

United States District Court for the Central District of California

United State District Court for the Eastern District of California

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
J.D. / Cum Laude

The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Ph.D., Philosophy

The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
M.A., Philosophy

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
B.A. / Magna Cum Laude

• Present high profile politician’s wife charged in Federal District Court with money laundering millions of dollars. Resulted in probationary sentence.
• Represented defendant accused of money laundering and structuring 6 million dollars. Resulted in civil compromise with no criminal prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused of using a false passport and aiding a fugitive by the federal government Resulted in no prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused by the US Attorneys Office of misusing millions of dollars of charity money and money from government grants. Resulted in no prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused of sale of millions of dollars of precursor chemicals to methamphetamines, facing over twenty years under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Resulted in 3 1/2 year sentence.
• United States Department of Justice: 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.

Eliot Krieger has also been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in Southern California. No more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a rigorous multi-phased process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area

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• Present high profile politician’s wife charged in Federal District Court with money laundering millions of dollars. Resulted in probationary sentence.
• Represented defendant accused of money laundering and structuring 6 million dollars. Resulted in civil compromise with no criminal prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused of using a false passport and aiding a fugitive by the federal government Resulted in no prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused by the US Attorneys Office of misusing millions of dollars of charity money and money from government grants. Resulted in no prosecution.
• Represented defendant accused of sale of millions of dollars of precursor chemicals to methamphetamines, facing over twenty years under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Resulted in 3 1/2 year sentence.
• United States Department of Justice: 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

• 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.
• International Business Experience
• Worked with local counsel in negotiating several land deals regarding structuring of foreign investment in the Philippines.
• Advised and negotiated real estate deals for various Philippine corporations including:
• Cambridge Real Estate Corporation
• Orsal Development Corporation
• Eco-Alternative Building Concepts Corp.
• Developed and arranged funding for three townhouse complexes near Clark, Philippines

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

“Thinking about Thinking: Integrating Law, Philosophy & Science”, Teaching Fellow / Instructor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Philosophy, Visiting Assistant Professor (Part-Time), University of Maryland at Baltimore County

“Government Investigations: I-9s, LCAs, and Other Immigration-Related Investigations”, 16th Annual American Immigration Lawyers Association, California Chapter

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

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

“Rifts Over RFRA: Divergent Approaches to the Free Exercise Clause”, Southern California Philosophy Conference, University of California Irvine, California

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

“Protected Expression: Towards a Speaker-Oriented Theory”, 73 Denver Law Review 69

“The Court Declines in FairnessTeague v. Lane”, 25 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 184