CAREER
DiBenedetto has a wide-ranging practice with proven results in all aspects of criminal law. He has secured the pretrial dismissal of numerous cases at both the state and federal level. His extensive knowledge of the federal sentencing guidelines and state sentencing provisions has benefited numerous clients, earning them significantly reduced sentences.
DiBenedetto is frequently retained in high profile matters that receive press coverage. DiBenedetto successfully represented the lead defendant in what the government referred to as the largest Medicare fraud case in U.S. history. After intense litigation, DiBenedetto secured a significantly reduced sentence for his client by establishing a loss of only Twenty Million Dollars, as opposed to the government’s claim of loss totaling well over One Hundred Million Dollars.
DiBenedetto is not shy in holding the government to their burden of proof and exposing government overreach. Recently DiBenedetto, against all odds, and after three failed attempts by two other notable attorneys, obtained bail for his client in federal court on a highly publicized racketeering and death penalty eligible prosecution charging the client with multiple acts of violence, including murder. DiBenedetto thoroughly destroyed the government’s allegation regarding the client’s involvement in a murder and exposed their key witness as a liar. DiBenedetto was able to secure a guilty plea to conduct that did not include the charged murder.
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSIONS
Joseph DiBenedetto is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 2001. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, also from St. John’s University in 1998.
Joseph DiBenedetto is admitted to the state bars of New York and New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
DiBenedetto is also admitted to the District Courts for the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the District of Connecticut.
DiBenedetto is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.