Pepper Hamilton buys Louis Freeh firm
Ex-FBI boss, Penn State hammer to join Philly firm
Pepper Hamilton buys Louis Freeh firm
Joseph N. DiStefano
Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, says it is adding former FBI boss Louis J. Freeh's law firm, Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP, and its investigative affiliate Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC. Financial terms not disclosed.
Pepper chairman Nina Gussack said in this statement: “The Freeh Group will deepen and broaden Pepper’s already substantial corporate investigations, white-collar advocacy and enforcement practice in key markets.
The firms have worked together in "white collar, pharmaceutical/medical device, education, and financial services, both in the U.S. and globally,” Freeh said in the statement. “This transaction will allow us to do a lot more than conduct investigations and uncover problems,” he added. “We will now have the depth to react quickly to sophisticated, complex issues anywhere in the world" and "give our clients real solutions, not merely determine facts, and then work with all parties to implement those solutions. That’s what clients want."
After leaving government service in 2001, Freeh moved to Delaware and worked for MBNA Corp., the credit card bank, now part of Bank of America Corp. He wrote the Freeh report highly critical of Penn State University's management of convicted child abuser JerrySandusky under former president Graham Spanier and the late coach Joe Paterno.
Freeh Group will keep its name. James R. Bucknam was confirmed as president and CEO. Freeh joins the Pepper executive committee. The Freeh lawyers join Pepper's white-collar litigation and investigations group under Thomas A. Gallagher.
Under Freeh, hearsay is fact.— Aces high- This comment has been deleted.— Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
- Bingo! — princss6
- for a "Dr." you seem wildy uneducated...— fill in blank
- An Investigative Grand Jury conducted a two year investigation and brought NO charges against anyone of conspiracy: did find Perjury (which is a last resort) and JOPA was NEVER found culpable of any criminal conspiracy – which is a crime. Anyone with a hair of knowledge knows that a Grand Jury IS a prosecutor’s tool – and they could only get, I repeat, a Perjury charge.
Read the Freeh Report ad nausea (one can not call it an investigation) and without a doubt there are NO evidentiary issues disclosed that weren’t put forth in the Grand Jury investigation. NO prosecutor would indict anyone based on that report and NO tenured detective would request an arrest warrant for any violations against anyone in that report. It is replete with conjecture, innuendo and subjectivity and PSU accepts it as fact!
Good luck Pepper Hamilton!— STEPHEN1988 - Louis Freeh and members of his team are some of the most honorable people you'll ever meet. They go where the evidence takes them and claims of conjecture, innuendo and subjectivity are bullXXt. You Penn State people need to get a life and realize that the administration of your school were just wrong. Shut up and move on.
— jimmymack - Louis Freeh is a liar and a joke. It's easy to validate this. Just Google his name and see what you come up with.— delcodanno
- Louie Freeh produced a thorough report that brought the anteseptic of daylight to parts of the Sandusky affair never before known to the public. Rather than accept this information and consider ways to improve a very good institution of higher education, the Penn State crowd has dug in their heals and decided to fight the messenger rather than live and learn. It is disappointing and a missed opportunity for PSU.— ProfAsner
- Dumping his firm on Pepper Hamilton is a great way to stay under the radar. Timing sounds a little suspect.— boilermaker
