Category: Media Mentions

Attorney Kevin O’Brien was featured in The Hype Magazine on September 10, 2023, highlighting his legal experience, background as a prosecutor at the Department of Justice, and how he helps clients facing SEC investigations. As former Platinum Partners Chief Executive Officer Joseph SanFilippo put it…

Stacking the trials virtually on top of one another is unfair to the defendant, according to Kevin O’Brien, a New York-based trial lawyer at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP and former assistant U.S. attorney who specializes in white-collar criminal cases. “It’s an awfully burdensome responsibility placed…

Attorney Kevin O’Brien was interviewed in the Salon article, “I was just following orders.” Ex-prosecutor calls out Trump co-defendants for using “Nazi Defense“” Read the Full Article

O’Brien said Lauro’s “aspiration” argument is “not a stupid claim” and “points out something interesting about the way Trump works” that may help protect him in this case. “Trump oftentimes doesn’t finish things. He sort of encourages people to go storming the Capitol, and then he…

Kevin J. O’Brien states “I wouldn’t say it’s illegal. I would say he is barely barely within his First Amendment rights issuing a statement like that.” Watch the Full Video    

Kevin O’Brien pointed out that Trump is still entitled to a “vigorous defense” in and out of court and his lawyer is well within his rights to make arguments that offer Trump’s side to the issues raised in what is a “very unusual indictment.” None…

“It sounds like Rudy, far from making a free confession of his sins, isn’t conceding anything except what is strictly necessary to avoid his discovery obligations in the defamation action,” former federal prosecutor Kevin O’Brien, a partner at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP, told Law360. Read…

“The meeting suggests Trump had no qualms about the security of the upcoming presidential election until he started to fear that he might lose,” former federal prosecutor Kevin O’Brien told Salon. “Obviously, this is relevant to Trump’s state of mind and whether he knew his…

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O’Brien, a New York-based partner at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP who specializes in white-collar defense, said Trump’s case “sounds frivolous.” O’Brien, who is not involved in the case, said the former president has undertaken a “useless motion practice” associated…

But connecting Trump’s statements to the Jan. 6 riots could be challenging for the government, according to Kevin O’Brien, a white-collar partner at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP and ex-federal prosecutor. “There may be ways of linking Trump to the violence on that day by showing…