F. Franklin Amanat
Frank leverages more than 30 years’ experience prosecuting sophisticated legal matters in both the public and private sectors to vindicate the interests of whistleblowers and victims of fraudulent and illegal conduct.
Frank leverages more than 30 years’ experience prosecuting sophisticated legal matters in both the public and private sectors to vindicate the interests of whistleblowers and victims of fraudulent and illegal conduct.
Frank Amanat is a highly decorated litigator with more than 30 years’ experience in a broad range of complex legal matters. Frank specializes in representing whistleblowers, as well as victims of fraudulent and illegal conduct, governmental entities, and other plaintiffs, in a wide range of high-impact litigation, including class actions and multidistrict litigation. His practice focuses on financial and securities fraud, health care and pharmaceutical fraud, antitrust, civil rights, mass torts, and complex commercial litigation. He also has expertise in constitutional and administrative law, environmental litigation, litigation against governmental actors, and appellate and policy litigation. A veteran of 19 trials and arbitrations and dozens of appeals, Frank has led some of the largest and most consequential civil litigation in the United States, and he has amassed a remarkable track record delivering successful outcomes to his clients.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Frank spent 24 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), including more than two decades as an Assistant United States Attorney and then Senior Counsel at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), plus stints at the Office of Legal Policy (OLP) and the Office of Immigration Litigation. At DOJ, Frank handled over 400 cases, both affirmative and defensive, on behalf of more than 70 federal agencies. From 2013 to 2018, he served as lead counsel for the Government in the successful investigation and prosecution of Barclays Bank and two of its former executives for fraud in connection with the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities. The $2 billion settlement remains the largest single recovery the DOJ has ever obtained in a civil penalty action filed under FIRREA.
For his work at OLP developing regulations implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act, Frank was awarded in 2012 the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, the second highest award conferred by the DOJ. In September 2020, Frank received the EOUSA Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney (Civil) for his work on financial fraud and public policy cases, as well as several immigration policy class actions. In 2018, Frank received the Henry L. Stimson Medal, an award given annually by the New York City Bar Association to honor outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the EDNY and SDNY for their integrity, fairness, courage, and superior commitment to the public good.
