Lawyer sues DOJ for more than $30M over dropped fraud charges
A prominent Maryland attorney filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday accusing the federal government of basing a criminal fraud and money laundering prosecution against him on false testimony by an FBI agent. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
A prominent Maryland attorney filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday accusing the federal government of basing a criminal fraud and money laundering prosecution against him on false testimony by an FBI agent.
Jeremy Schulman of Bethesda, Maryland, is seeking compensatory damages of over $30 million for what he describes as a malicious prosecution stemming from his representation of the Federal Republic of Somalia and the government’s central bank.
He alleges that the FBI targeted him because of his outspoken opposition to the United Nations “and its overreach with respect to Somali affairs,” according to a story by the Daily Record.
Schulman, a former shareholder at Potomac, Maryland-based Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, was indicted in 2020. The suit alleges that that prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence presented to another grand jury that was convened in 2017.
The charges against him were dropped in 2024.
Schulman said he was targeted by the government because he was “closely aligned and publicly associated with” Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a “target for attack” by U.S. authorities, according to the story.
Write a letter to the editor, share a story tip or update, or report an error.
