“I was in complete denial until I was standing inside a maximum-security federal holding facility. Not walking toward it. Not sitting in a courtroom hearing the verdict. Inside. That is how comprehensive the denial was.”

THE STORY

I was a licensed New York attorney. I practiced law and served as CFO to one of the most prominent figures in New York’s taxi industry — a man the press called the Taxi King of New York.
In the span of one week, three legal proceedings converged on my life. Two criminal. One civil. I was charged with tax fraud in the state case and, in the federal case, with asylum fraud and making false statements to federal authorities.
I was convicted. I served time at MCC — the same facility that held El Chapo, the same facility where Jeffrey Epstein would later die. Then, at Danbury Federal Prison Camp, where, when I eventually had the presence of mind to count, 12 of the 180 women were attorneys.
I was not reckless. I was not indifferent to the law. I was someone who had justified her way into each decision, exactly the way intelligent, high-functioning professionals do under pressure. I rationalized. I minimized. I refused to believe that the thing that happens to other attorneys could happen to me.
It happened to me.

THE WORK THAT CAME AFTER

I wrote a memoir: Alive Again — My Journey from Attorney to Redemption in Prison. Writing it required me to go back into every room I had tried to leave behind and stay there long enough to understand what was actually happening in each one.
From that process, I developed the A.P.P.L.E. Method — a framework for recognizing the psychology of ethical drift before it becomes irreversible. I now speak to bar associations, law firms, and law schools on the mechanism of professional downfall: not what the rules say, but what happens inside the mind when they stop holding.
I also advise law firms and senior attorneys privately on behavioral risk and decision intelligence — the internal systems that compliance policies cannot reach.
I do this work because of those twelve attorneys at Danbury. Because every one of them had a moment — months or years before they arrived there — when something could have interrupted the process. Most of them never had that conversation.
I speak so that conversation happens before it has to.

CREDENTIALS & WORK

LL.M. — Master of Laws, Cardozo Law School
Former licensed New York attorney — general practice
Author: Alive Again — My Journey from Attorney to Redemption in Prison and Predict Your Outcomes, Guidebook on Taking Control of Your Destiny. Podcast Host
Speaker: bar associations, law firms, law schools
Frameworks: A.P.P.L.E. Method · M.O.N.E.Y. Method · The Art of Intelligent Hate

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