White Collar Defense Lawyer Robert G. Morvillo Dies

Robert G. Morvillo, one of the most experienced white collar criminal defense attorneys in the country, has died. 

A partner in Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., Morvillo (pictured) received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor of the Law Review. He served in the Southern District of New York, first as law clerk for U.S. District Judge William B. Herlands, then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief Trial Assistant in charge of the Frauds Unit, and finally Chief of the Criminal Division. He left that office in 1973 to become a founding partner of a predecessor to Morvillo Abramowitz.
 
He represented, among others, Martha Stewart; John A. Zaccaro, the husband of the former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro; and former AIG chief executive Maurice R. Greenberg.