PRACTICE AREAS

Federal Criminal Defense

Ms. DeBlasio vigorously and tirelessly defends individuals at all stages of the federal criminal process. In 2018 alone, she obtained the pre-trial dismissal of all charges against a client indicted in a drug importation conspiracy in the Southern District of New York, took a RICO double homicide case to trial in the Eastern District of New York, obtained a time-served sentence in the Eastern District for a client who pled guilty to international narcotics trafficking, and overturned a life sentence winning a discretionary reduction to 30 years for a man who was convicted more than a decade ago in the Southern District for distributing crack cocaine.

NOTABLE CRIMINAL CASES

• Negotiated Deferred Prosecution Agreement and dismissal of all criminal charges against a young man charged under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act with conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States (15-Cr-292, SDNY)
• Negotiated Deferred Prosecution Agreement and dismissal of all criminal charges against a young woman charged with conspiracy to falsify documents and defraud the federal government (14-Cr-543, SDNY)
• Won a time-served sentence for a former Member of the Italian Parliament who pled guilty for his role in facilitating an apparent sale of weapons to the then-designated Colombian terrorist organization the FARC in a DEA-created “sting” operation (14-Cr-799, SDNY)
• Won an 11-month sentence for a foreign federal law enforcement officer who pled guilty to bribery and witness retaliation and faced a sentencing range of 121 to 151 months (09-Cr-270, EDNY)
• Won a 60-month sentence for the “Hugh Hefner of Canada” who pled guilty without a cooperation agreement to a scheme to export cocaine from the United States to Montreal and faced a sentencing range of 108 to 135 months (12-Cr-425, SDNY)
• Won a discretionary reduction in sentence from life to 30 years – the lowest term available under the law – having taken over the case at the re-sentencing stage for a man convicted at trial and sentenced in 2001 for distributing crack cocaine in the 1990s (99-Cr-157, SDNY)
• Won a 30-month sentence for a citizen of the Dominican Republic who pled guilty without a cooperation agreement to conspiring with the father of two of her children to export narcotics to the U.S. and faced a sentencing range of 135 to 168 months (09-Cr-057, EDNY)
• Won a 48-month sentence for a U.S. citizen who pled guilty without a cooperation agreement as a drug courier and faced a sentencing range of 140 to 175 months (15-Cr-264, SDNY)
• Won a 72-month sentence for a U.S. citizen who pled guilty without a cooperation agreement as a drug courier and faced a sentencing range of 188 to 235 months (11-Cr-669, EDNY)
• Won a 66-month sentence for a European client who pled guilty without a cooperation agreement for his role in an apparent conspiracy to sell weapons to a Mexican drug cartel in a DEA-created “sting” operation, having faced a sentencing range of 135 to 168 months (15-Cr-793, SDNY)
• Won time-served sentences in several cases involving international narcotics-trafficking (11-Cr-247, EDNY; 11-Cr-332, DC; 10-Cr-225, EDNY; 02-Cr-1188, EDNY).

Ms. DeBlasio is able to communicate in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish with her clients and their families, as well as with foreign counsel, without the assistance of interpreters.

Ms. DeBlasio works predominantly in federal courts in New York; she also is licensed to practice in federal and state courts in Florida, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.

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