Recent/Upcoming Events & Appearances
White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series, On Zoom, Tues., June 20, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT: David B. Smith, Esq., Federal Restitution & Forfeiture Collection Expert
White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series, On Zoom, Tues., June 20, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT: David B. Smith, Esq., Federal Restitution & Forfeiture Collection Expert
We are honored to have David B. Smith, Esq. as the June speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.
Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcOyqpj8vHdW39HWfPnWWSXpvL-caJI_S
Information about our White Collar Support Group: http://prisonist.org
David has over 40 years of white collar criminal experience. He has litigated scores of cases and argued more than one hundred federal criminal appeals as a federal prosecutor and defense attorney, including extensive experience with civil and criminal litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States. He has been repeatedly named in the list of preeminent lawyers in the field of white collar criminal defense by Best Lawyers in America (2012-2023) and Virginia Super Lawyers (2009-2023), and has received the President’s Commendation for outstanding service from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 1993, 1994, and 2004. He served for nine years on the Board of the NACDL and has been Chair of its Forfeiture Committee since 1990. He is also a Vice-Chair of its Amicus Committee.
For nearly a decade prior to entering private practice, David was a prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice and at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he was involved in complex white collar criminal investigations, trials, and appeals involving defense procurement fraud, congressional bribery, espionage, tax evasion, mail fraud, false claims and other crimes. In 1995-1996, he served as an Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of Michael Espy, the former secretary of agriculture.
David is regarded as the foremost expert in the country on asset forfeiture and restitution law and practice. He is the author of the leading two-volume legal treatise on forfeiture, Prosecution and Defense of Forfeiture Cases (2023), published by Matthew Bender, and co-author of Civil RICO (2023), also published by Matthew Bender. He has testified before congressional committees several times with respect to forfeiture, restitution, and money laundering legislation. David has regularly counseled the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on forfeiture legislation, and was heavily involved in drafting the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000. He has also assisted the federal advisory committees in writing the procedural rules governing criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings. In 2000-2001, David was appointed by Senator Richard Shelby (R. Ala.), the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to serve as a Commissioner with the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control.
“And I must thank David Smith, who has been there since the beginning. David helped me draft my first forfeiture reform bill – the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 1993 – and helped draft Senators Leahy’s and Hatch’s reform bill, and helped draft the Senate-passed bill we are considering today. This bill is truly his accomplishment.”
—House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL)
To reach David B. Smith: https://davidbsmithpllc.com
White Collar Week Apr. ’23 Newsletter: https://conta.cc/42YI7GE
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
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Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798
Website: https://prisonist.org
Email: [email protected]
Office: 212-859-3512
Donations (501c3): http://bit.ly/donate35T9kMZ
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jeff-grant-woodbury-ct/731344
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revjeffgrant
not a prison coach, not a prison consultant
Media Relations: [email protected]
Speaking Engagements: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/39107
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© Copyright 2023, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., All rights reserved.
Podcast: Jeff Grant was Interviewed on the Justice Impacted Podcast with Kristine Bunch: “From Tribulation to Triumph,” March 10, 2023
Jeff lost his wife, house, law practice, law license and even his freedom when he hit rock bottom after more than a decade of prescription opioid addiction. But his road to recovery led to a path filled with redemption and a future he could never have imagined.
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/7fB4iqPd7s4cM5xZjCR1oD?si=62520c67c8fd4b5b&utm_source=oembed
Listen on Player.fm:
https://player.fm/series/3369601/357652466
Listen on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/justice-impacted-with-kristine-bunch/id1634616052?i=100060362359
About Jeff Grant
Jeffrey D. Grant, Esq…After an addiction to prescription opioids and serving almost 14 months in Federal prison (2006 – 07) for a white collar crime he committed in 2001 when he was a lawyer, Jeff Grant started his own reentry. He earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, majoring in Social Ethics. After graduating, Jeff was called to serve at an inner city church in Bridgeport, CT as Associate Minister and Director of Prison Ministries. He then co-founded Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc. (Greenwich, CT), the world’s first ministry devoted to serving people prosecuted for white collar crimes and their families. In May 2021, Jeff’s law license was reinstated by the NY Supreme Court. In August 2022, Jeff celebrated 20 years of continuous sobriety.
Connect with Jeff…
• Grant Law Firm: Specializing in white collar crime prosecutions. Email | 212.859.3512
• White Collar Support Group: The world’s first support group devoted to those navigating the white-collar criminal justice system. Email
• Life After White Collar Crime – as featured in the New Yorker
• The Criminal Insider Podcast: with Babz Rawls Ivy and Jeff Grant is broadcast live at 9am ET on the first and third Friday of each month.
Credits:
Host: Kristine Bunch, Indiana exoneree and Outreach Coordinator for Interrogating Justice and How to Justice
Producer: Tammy Alexander, creator and co-host of the Snow Files Podcast
Announcer: Eric Brenner, actor and voice over artist
How to Justice is a non-profit group that seeks to raise up justice-impacted people. Its goal? Provide easy-to-read answers to your questions about your rights before, during and after prison.
Interrogating Justice is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Our team of attorneys, advocates and allies take on some of the biggest legal, social and ethical justice-reform issues today. Our goal is simple: help shed light on the obstacles preventing our justice system from being just.
White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: Christopher Poulos, Executive Director, Center for Justice and Human Dignity, on Zoom, April 18, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT.
We are honored to have Christopher Poulos as the April speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.
Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvfu6tqDwjGN2CYtITEnsmxxQUMkblRpX7
Information about our White Collar Support Group: http://prisonist.org
Following an extensive, nationwide recruitment effort, Christopher Poulos was appointed the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Human Dignity (CJHD) , effective February 1, 2023. Chris is an attorney and former senior government executive who brings a wealth of personal and professional passion and expertise to this pivotal role. His path led him from trauma, addiction, and incarceration to graduating from college and law school and serving at both the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and The Sentencing Project.
After attaining licensure in state and federal court, Chris served as Executive Director of the Washington Statewide Reentry Council and, most recently, as Director of Person-Centered Services at the Washington State Department of Corrections. His position at the Washington State Department of Corrections was unique in that it was the first of its kind and the first time a formerly incarcerated person has held a senior executive role in a state department of corrections.
Chris’s work and personal story have been featured on The Today Show and in The Guardian, The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, The Hill, Crosscut, The Epoch Times and The Harvard Law and Policy Review. Chris was selected as one of Portland Magazine’s “Most Intriguing People” and as “Law Student of the Year” by National Jurist Magazine.
White Collar Week Newsletter Feb ’23: https://conta.cc/3jdc97A
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
YouTube Video: White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: Scott Semple, Former Connecticut Commissioner of Correction and Founder of Semple Consulting, LLC, on Zoom, March 21, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT.
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White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: Scott Semple, Former Connecticut Commissioner of Correction and Founder of Semple Consulting, LLC, on Zoom, March 21, 2023.
We were honored to have Scott Semple as the March speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.
Information about our White Collar Support Group: http://prisonist.org
Scott Semple was appointed commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction in March 2015. Scott joined the Connecticut Department of Correction as a front line Correction Officer in 1988 at the high security Cheshire Correctional Institution. During his tenure, he has served the agency in numerous administrative capacities, to include pre-service training coordinator, external and legislative affairs, and warden of the state’s only correctional facility dedicated for men requiring comprehensive treatment services for significant mental illness.
As commissioner, Scott has successfully implemented several performance based and progressive correctional practices designed to support both staff and incarcerated people. Most notable, they include the Emerging Adult Units known as the TRUE Unit (located in Cheshire) and the WORTH Unit (located in Niantic). He has also repurposed an existing correctional facility and other specific housing units for specialized populations to provide a therapeutic environment designed to support community reintegration. Scott has implemented numerous agency-wide staff wellness initiatives to support, respond and improve policies evolving around the complex and unique needs associated with the health and welfare of correctional professionals and their families.
On January 1, 2019, after more than 30-years of service to the agency, Scott retired from public service. He now provides professional consult through Semple Consulting, LLC on various criminal justice and correctional related endeavors.
White Collar Week Newsletter Jan ’23: https://conta.cc/3WBp3KJ
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
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Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798
Website: https://prisonist.org
Email: [email protected]
Office: 212-859-3512
Donations (501c3): http://bit.ly/donate35T9kMZ
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/jeff-grant…/731344
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revjeffgrant
not a prison coach, not a prison consultant
Media Relations: [email protected]
Speaking Engagements: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/39107
Newsletter Contains Attorney Advertising
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
© Copyright 2023, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., All rights reserved.
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YouTube Video: White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series, Jim Campbell, Author of Madoff Talks, the book that inspired the Netflix documentary, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, on Zoom, Feb. 21, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT.
We are honored to have Jim Campbell as the February speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.
Information about our White Collar Support Group: https//:prisonist.org
“Jim, this certainly sounds strange coming from me, but I was a constant critic of Wall Street. I was a product of the corrupt culture of Wall Street.” – Bernie Madoff, in an email to Jim Campbell.
No name is more synonymous with the evil side of Wall Street than Bernie Madoff. Arrested for fraud in 2008—during the depths of the financial crisis—the 70-year old market maker, investment advisor and former chairman of the NASDAQ had orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, fleecing thousands of investors across the globe to the tune of $65 billion. To this day, questions remain: Why did he do it? How did he get away with it for so long? What did his family know? Who is the elusive Bernie Madoff?
For the first time, Madoff has gone on the record to explain why and how he orchestrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. In over 400 pages of handwritten letters and emails between him and author Jim Campbell, Madoff shares never-before-heard details about his business and family and how he got away with committing fraud for so long.
Also, for the first time, Ruth Madoff, Andrew Madoff and Madoff’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, reveal what they knew and if they were complicit.
“The question behind every fraud is why? For all the coverage of Bernie Madoff, the question still hangs in the air. Read Jim Campbell’s wonderfully reported book and you’ll finally get some answers.” – Bethany McLean, author of the best seller The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron.
Even though we know how the story ends, Madoff Talks’ fast-paced, suspenseful narrative shows Madoff at his manipulative best: explaining, justifying and rationalizing his actions and behaviors. All the while, Campbell’s investigative work challenges and refutes Madoff’s claims. From his exhaustive research, Campbell offers more than 30 recommendations to individual investors to be smart with their money and to the SEC, SIPC, FINRA and feeder funds.
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Jim Campbell is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Business Talk with Jim Campbell and his crime show Forensic Talk with Jim Campbell. He is known for his hard-hitting interviews of leading figures from the worlds of business, politics and sports. Known for “firsts,” Campbell snagged the first extensive interview with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer after his resignation; the first interview with former Tyco CEO Denis Kozlowski after his release from prison; and the first broadcast interview with former stock analyst Roomy Kahn, a government informant in one of the biggest insider trading busts in American history.
Campbell’s extensive corporate, consulting and entrepreneurial business background includes roles at KPMG Consulting, Dean Witter Financial Services (now Morgan Stanley) and IBM. He is founder and president at JC Ventures, Inc., a management consulting business.
To reach Jim Campbell: [email protected], (203) 249-0695
Order Jim’s book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Talks-Uncovering-Notorious-History/dp/B0999V3WFW
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White Collar Week Newsletter Jan. ’23: https://conta.cc/3WBp3KJ
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
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Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798
Website: https://prisonist.org
Email: [email protected]
Office: 212-859-3512
Donations (501c3): http://bit.ly/donate35T9kMZ
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/jeff-grant…/731344
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revjeffgrant
not a prison coach, not a prison consultant
Media Relations: [email protected]
Speaking Engagements: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/39107
Newsletter Contains Attorney Advertising
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
© Copyright 2023, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., All rights reserved.
YouTube Video: White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: Elizabeth Kelley, Criminal Defense Attorney for People with Mental Health Disabilities, on Zoom, Tues., Jan. 10, 2023, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT.
We are honored to have Elizabeth Kelley as the January speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.
Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckd-mhqT4rG9dQ4J28SDgASUBLtoRvI1fY
Elizabeth Kelley is a criminal defense lawyer based in Spokane, Washington, with a nationwide practice specializing in representing people with mental disabilities. She is the editor of four books published by the American Bar Association (ABA): Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers; Representing People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers; Suicide and Its Impact on the Criminal Justice System (with Francesca Flood) and Representing People with Dementia: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers, October 2022 (scheduled). She co-chaired The Arc’s National Center for Criminal Justice and Disability Advisory Board and served three terms on the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). She is active in the ABA, serving as a Vice President of the Criminal Justice Section Council, the Editorial Board of Criminal Justice Magazine, and having served on the ABA’s Commission on Disability Rights and as an observer at the hearings at Guantanamo. She currently serves as the Editor of the ABA’s Annual publication, The State of Criminal Justice.
Website: www.elizabethkelleylaw.com
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White Collar Week Newsletter Nov ’22: https://conta.cc/3DPDt3b
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
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Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798
Website: https://prisonist.org
Email: [email protected]
Office: 212-859-3512
Donations (501c3): http://bit.ly/donate35T9kMZ
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/jeff-grant…/731344
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revjeffgrant
not a prison coach, not a prison consultant
Media Relations: [email protected]
Speaking Engagements: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/39107
Newsletter Contains Attorney Advertising
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
© Copyright 2022, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., All rights reserved.
YouTube Video: White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: Mike Kimelman, All About Crypto, FTX, White Collar Issues, On Zoom, Tues., Dec. 6, 2022
We are honored to have Mike Kimelman as the December speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series. Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscuysqDguG9FOdRmSmaUjMiVKLELR9WWm
Mike Kimelman is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and expert on disruptive innovation. Formerly an M&A lawyer and the founder of a New York-based hedge fund, he currently is a co-founder at Dekryption Labs – a Web3 consulting agency focused on blockchain architecture and development services. He also offers radical financial coaching on money, markets & investing through his Alpha360 trainings.
Websites: www.mikekimelman.com or www.getbitcoinbasics.com
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White Collar Week Newsletter Nov ’22: https://conta.cc/3DPDt3b
Sponsored by Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.: https://prisonist.org
Sponsored by GrantLaw, PLLC: https://grantlaw.com
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Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Mailing: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798
Website: https://prisonist.org
Email: [email protected]
Office: 212-859-3512
Donations (501c3): http://bit.ly/donate35T9kMZ
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/jeff-grant…/731344
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/revjeffgrant
not a prison coach, not a prison consultant
Media Relations: [email protected]
Speaking Engagements: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/39107
Newsletter Contains Attorney Advertising
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
© Copyright 2022, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., All rights reserved.
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Webinar: Is Fraud Addictive? Jeff Grant, Esq. will be Interviewed by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s John Gill, Thurs., Dec. 8, 2022, 2 pm ET, 11 am PT
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Jeff Grant is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings.
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Webinar: Is Fraud Addictive? Jeff Grant, Esq. will be Interviewed by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s Chief Training Officer John Gill, Thurs., Dec. 8, 2022, 2 pm ET, 11 am PT
“Many fraudsters describe their crimes as an addiction — they know they shouldn’t keep stealing, but they can’t stop. After an addiction to prescription opioids and serving almost 14 months in Federal prison for a white-collar crime, Jeff Grant started a ministry to help white-collar criminals re-enter society and avoid making the same mistakes that landed them in prison.
In this webinar, ACFE Chief Training Officer, John Gill, will talk to Grant about the circumstances of his own crimes and how this helps him understand the mindset of the fraudsters he counsels.”
Details and to register on the ACFE website…
About Jeff Grant: https://grantlaw.com/bio
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