Jacabed Rodriguez-Coss

At the Firm, I focus my practice on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), effective internal corporate investigation and reporting and assisting corporate clients, including international banks, with complex compliance related matters. I have conducted FCPA investigations throughout Latin America in English, Spanish and Portuguese. I also assist clients with complex civil and criminal litigation matters, including white collar, public corruption and other criminal defense work.

I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders since 2015. This is a community-based organization dedicated to providing youth ages 5-18 with educational, athletic and community based programs to help them build the character and self-esteem they need to reach their full potential in society. To learn more, please visit BCYL.org.

At the Firm, I focused my practice on the FCPA and BSA, internal corporate investigations and reporting and assisting corporate clients, including international banks, with complex compliance related matters. I also assisted clients with complex civil and criminal litigation matters, including white collar, public corruption and other criminal defense work.

During my tenure with the District of Connecticut, I handled investigations and prosecutions involving economic espionage, trade secret theft, cyber intrusions, export violations, material support to terrorist organizations, mail and wire fraud, crimes against children, extortion and kidnapping, among others. I also chaired the district’s Counter Proliferation Working Group, which coordinates investigations and outreach in the export control area. I was also active in the U.S. Attorney’s Office Community Outreach Committee, conducting gang prevention programs in middle schools and opioid awareness events in high schools.

I served as a Trial Attorney for the Capital Case Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where I assisted the Attorney General’s Committee for the Review of Capital Cases and investigated and prosecuted capital cases in several districts across the nation. During my tenure with the Capital Case Section, I wrote extensive memoranda involving complex constitutional issues and tried two capital cases to verdict.

I began my 24-year career with the U.S. Department of Justice in 1995 as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Puerto Rico, where I handled complex drug-trafficking, money laundering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and white-collar cases, among others. I moved to the District of Maryland from 2001-2003, and returned to Puerto Rico in 2004. I represented the United States in more than 25 jury trials and argued many appeals before the First and Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Juan R. Torruella, researching and drafting opinions, orders, and bench memoranda.