Law firm hires former top-level federal white-collar prosecutor

Simon Gaugush has joined Carlton Fields in Tampa after a decade with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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| 12:12 p.m. October 21, 2019
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Former federal prosecutor Simon Gaugush has joined Carlton Fields in Tampa in an of-counsel role. Courtesy photo.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

TAMPA — Carlton Fields has hired white-collar crime attorney Simon Gaugush in an of-counsel role at its Tampa office.

Gaugush, according to a press release, spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor. Prior to that, while in private practice, he focused on white-collar criminal defense, opioid-related litigation, corporate internal investigations, cyber offenses, False Claims Act (qui tam) cases and complex civil litigation.