[1] Vernon Johnson, a fellow law firm partner, was a co-defendant in the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Helland, the chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit of the E.D.

[1][5] A grand jury issued 40 subpoenas, while around 80 FBI agents raided Fieger's law firm.

[1][8] Fieger faced up to 55 years in prison and fines up to $2.5 million if convicted on all 10 charges.

[15] Peter Margulies, a law professor, called the prosecution "overkill" by the government, stating the reason the jury acquitted Fieger was due to them believing that the government had overreached, acted without an appropriate sense of proportion, and did not prove that Fieger's intent was to deceive.