Dan’s success as a defense attorney is attributed to his blue-collar work ethic and experience as a federal prosecutor and federal agent. Dan is the son of a GM factory worker and put himself through college and law school. He drove a Coca-Cola truck, made sandwiches at Arby’s, flattened armor on the Abrams M-1 Battle Tank at Demmer Tool & Die, bagged groceries at a Shop-Rite supermarket, cleaned lanes at the MSU bowling alley, delivered packages for UPS, and worked nights at a gym. He was a paid intern with the Pinellas County Public Defender’s Office and the United States Customs Service.

Dan worked over twenty years with the Department of Justice and three years with the Department of Treasury, United States Customs Service. Dan was Special Agent with the Customs Service in San Francisco and an Assistant Regional Counsel with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Kansas City. He distinguished himself by becoming a Special Response Team (SRT) member at the Federal Correctional Center, Coleman, Florida and taught deadly use of force throughout the United States.

Dan spent the last ten years of his government career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (federal prosecutor) in the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. He worked in the Civil, Asset Forfeiture and Criminal Divisions. Dan helped start the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Team for the Orlando Division and specialized in money laundering, investment fraud and complex white-collar prosecutions. Dan traveled to Ireland, Brazil, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Panama for international money laundering investigations and assisted with the forfeiture of tens of millions of dollars of criminal proceeds. Dan also prosecuted individuals for drug trafficking, mortgage fraud, conspiracy, securities fraud, child pornography, income tax evasion, sex trafficking, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, embezzlement, wire and mail fraud, carjacking, firearms offenses, immigration offenses, Medicare fraud, and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Dan left the U.S. Attorney’s Office to start the False Claims/Qui Tam practice at one of the nation’s premiere products liability firms, Newsome & Melton. Within a year, he accepted an offer to become Seaside National Bank’s first ever General Counsel and Corporate Security Officer. After nearly three years with Seaside Bank, Dan fulfilled his dream of establishing his own criminal defense firm.