George W. Vien
617-720-2880 x146
gwv@dcglaw.com

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EDUCATION

JD, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1985
BA, Wesleyan University, 1982

BAR ADMISSIONS

Massachusetts
United States District Court
(D. Mass.)
United States Court of Appeals (1st Cir.)

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George W. Vien

George W. Vien recently joined the firm after serving for more than 24 years as a federal prosecutor. Mr. Vien began his career as a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter in Boston. He was appointed as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, became a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, then returned to Boston where he has served for the last 20 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Vien has tried well over 40 criminal cases in Boston, Worcester, Concord (N.H.), Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Little Rock.

While an AUSA in Boston, Mr. Vien served in the Health Care Fraud Unit, the Drug Task Force, the Public Corruption Unit and the Organized Crime Strike Force. Mr. Vien prosecuted a broad spectrum of cases including health care fraud, RICO, mail and wire fraud, federal highway fraud, federal capital murder, tax violations, drug trafficking, prescription drug diversion, firearms crimes, murder in aid of racketeering, Hobbs Act extortion, extortionate credit transactions, federal bribery, sex trafficking, child pornography, police corruption, civil rights violations, witness intimidation, perjury, federal program fraud, and money laundering.

In 1999, Mr. Vien was temporarily assigned to the Department of Justice's Campaign Financing Task Force in Washington, DC, and prosecuted violations of the federal campaign financing laws.

Mr. Vien has conducted extensive grand jury investigations as well as investigations involving all aspects of electronic surveillance. He has also dealt with issues arising under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Mr. Vien’s accomplishments include:

• The prosecution of Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie, who was convicted of violating the federal campaign financing laws.
• Gary Lee Sampson, who was convicted of car-jacking murder and sentenced to death.
• P.A. Landers Inc., its President and Vice President, who were convicted of conspiracy, federal highway fraud and mail fraud for defrauding state and local governments on federally funded highway projects.
• Bayer Corporation, which paid a $251 million civil settlement and a $5.6 million criminal fine resulting from a fraudulent private labeling scheme designed to evade “best price” agreements with the Medicaid program.
• The “Interval Posse” case in which several members of Boston’s most infamous and violent street gang were convicted of drug trafficking, murder and related offenses. Mr. Vien received a national Department of Justice Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force award for leading the prosecution of that case.

Mr. Vien is a former adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School and has taught at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Mr. Vien graduated from Wesleyan University, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School with honors.