L. Judson Welle

Mr. Welle’s representative experience and notable cases include:

• Led multiple investigations involving ransomware, business email compromise, and inadvertent data exposure for a range of organizations*
• Supervised an investigation into a corporate network intrusion and exfiltration of millions of customer records from an enterprise services company*
• Led several insider threat investigations, including those involving sabotage of virtual servers perpetrated by a disgruntled IT administrator, leaks of sensitive corporate information by insiders, and unauthorized cryptocurrency “mining” activity on a corporate network for a publicly traded media company*
• Advised the board of directors of a major U.S. bank about communications security and supervised implementation of a platform to protect its sensitive deliberations*
• Secured convictions at trial against an employee of a U.S. defense contractor for stealing and exporting trade secrets for missile guidance technology for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (U.S. v. Sixing Liu)*
• Secured conviction at trial against a political operative for disabling an opponent’s website and hacking into email accounts (U.S. v. Joseph Roque)*
• Secured conviction against a U.S. defense contractor for supply chain fraud, exporting defense technical data to India, and providing defective parts to the U.S. military for use in F-15 fighter aircraft (U.S. v. Hannah Robert)*
• Secured conviction against a foreign national for laundering nearly $20 million in criminal proceeds from a massive international telecommunications hacking and fraud scheme (U.S. v. Muhammad Qasmani)*
• Secured a 63-month prison sentence for a foreign national for running an international cashing operation that monetized stole credit and debit card information obtained through computer hacking (U.S. v. Angelo Virtucio)*
• Secured convictions against three New Jersey men for conspiring to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a designated foreign terrorist organization (U.S. v. Nader Saadeh, Alaa Saadeh, & Samuel Topaz)*
• Secured convictions against two New Jersey men for conspiring to murder individuals on behalf of Al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization (U.S. v. Mohamed Alessa & Carlos E. Almonte)*
• Secured conviction against a New York City pharmacist for developing the biological toxins ricin and abrin for use as weapons and possessing materials to manufacture military-grade explosives (U.S. v. Jordan Gonzalez)*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.