Marc S. Raspanti
MARC S. RASPANTI is a name partner of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP. He practices in the areas of White Collar Criminal Defense; Criminal, Civil and Administrative Health Care Fraud Defense; Federal and State Qui Tam Litigation; and Complex Commercial Litigation. Mr. Raspanti serves as Chair of the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense practice group. He is also the founder of the firm's Qui Tam practice group.
While attending Temple University School of Law, Mr. Raspanti also served as President of the Moot Court Board from 1983 to 1984. Mr. Raspanti is on the Board of Governors of the Justinian Society, having served as Secretary to the Society from 1998 to 2002. He is also a member of the Silver Council and Executive Business Council of the National Italian American Foundation. His past legal positions include Assistant District Attorney at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, as well as working for three well-respected Philadelphia litigation firms.
In March 1999, Philadelphia Magazine named Mr. Raspanti one of the best white collar criminal defense lawyers in Philadelphia. Following that honor, Mr. Raspanti was selected by his peers as one of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers from 2004 through 2010 in the field of White Collar Criminal Defense, an honor reserved for 5% of the Pennsylvania Bar. In addition, in 2007 through 2010 he was listed as one of the Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. In 2008 through 2010, he was selected as one of the Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyers. He was also selected by his peers for the 2006 through 2010 editions of Best Lawyers in America in the area of Health Care Law litigation.
Mr. Raspanti is an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and has been recognized for his exemplary service as Vice Chair of the White Collar Crime Committee. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL). He is a member of the Committee on Criminal Law of the Federal Bar Association, the Committee on Complex Crimes Litigation and the Sub-Committees on White Collar Crime and Qui Tam of the American Bar Association. Mr. Raspanti has been recognized as a national leader in his field by such organizations as Law Dragon 500 magazine and the US Healthcare Expert Guide. Mr. Raspanti is also an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association.
In the area of White Collar Criminal Defense, Mr. Raspanti served as lead trial counsel in a number of complex, high-profile white collar criminal cases. In United States of America v. General Electric Company, he defended a former executive of the General Electric Company charged with criminal defense procurement fraud in a four-month jury trial. This case, which involved thousands of documents and hundreds of witnesses, was one of the longest and most complex white collar criminal trials ever tried in Pennsylvania. More recently, Mr. Raspanti successfully obtained an acquittal, after a lengthy jury trial, of a dermatologist charged with 79 counts of health care fraud in federal district court in Philadelphia.
In the area of Qui Tam litigation, Mr. Raspanti has served and continues to serve as lead counsel in numerous high profile cases including, United States ex rel. Robert J. Merena v. SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, as well as co-lead counsel in United States ex rel. Bradford Hunt & Walter Gauger v. Merck-Medco Managed Care, LLC and in United States ex rel. James T. Monahan v. St. Barnabas Health System. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Raspanti has been involved in the recovery of over $1.8 billion for state and federal taxpayers.
In June 2007, Mr. Raspanti was appointed as a Commissioner by Governor Edward G. Rendell as the criminal defense representative to serve on the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. The Commission creates a state-wide sentencing policy which promotes fair, consistent sentencing practices in order to provide judges with a common reference point for sentencing those convicted of felonies and misdemeanors. Mr. Raspanti was previously appointed by Governor Rendell to serve as a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
On January 27, 2003, under recommendation from Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania appointed Mr. Raspanti to the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board for a term of six years which concluded on January 27, 2009. He served as Chair of the Board’s education committee. Prior to his appointment to the 16-person Disciplinary Board, Mr. Raspanti had served for almost six years as a Philadelphia Disciplinary Hearing Committee Member.
Mr. Raspanti frequently speaks, writes, lectures and comments on white collar, qui tam and health care fraud issues throughout the country. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Minnesota where he teaches a class in health care fraud and pharmaceutical and medical device fraud.
In 1984, Mr. Raspanti received his J.D. from the Temple University School of Law. In 1979, he earned his B.A., cum laude, from Villanova University.
He is admitted to practice in all courts in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia (inactive), New York state and numerous federal courts.
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