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Saratoga Springs and the Capital Region
Government Investigation Attorneys Saratoga, NY
An agency, an employer, or a district attorney’s office asked to talk, and nobody will tell you what your role is. You have not been charged. Scott Iseman spent years on the government’s side of that conversation. Now he sits on yours.
Who reads your file
- Before defense
- Federal prosecutor
- Military
- Marine Judge Advocate
- Handled
- About 300 criminal matters
- Tried
- About 35 jury trials
01Find your situation
Is this what is happening to you?
Find your situation below. Each one goes straight to what it means and what to do next.
Not sure which one you are? Bring us the letter.
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02Who will handle it
The results from a former prosecutor
Scott Iseman was a federal prosecutor and a Marine Judge Advocate before he opened Iseman PLLC in 2021. He knows what an investigator is looking for, what makes a file get bigger, and what makes one quietly close, because that used to be his job.
A result before any charge
Allegations dropped without a hearing
A college investigated a student and dropped the allegations entirely, with no hearing, after we made the defense presentation during the school’s own investigation. The matter ended before it ever became a case.
Federal prosecutorBefore the defense
~300Criminal matters handled
~35Jury trials to verdict
2021 to 2026Super Lawyers
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Client names are withheld.
03Every office in one table
Who contacted you, and can they make you talk?
Some of these offices are asking. Some are ordering. Nothing in the tone of the conversation tells you which one you are in.
| Who contacted you | What they are after | Do you have to talk? |
|---|---|---|
| Saratoga County DA investigator | Evidence for a state criminal case in Ballston Spa. | No. They cannot force you. Only a court order can. |
| State Police investigator | Felony investigations across the county. | No. They need a judge’s warrant to take anything. |
| NY Attorney General | Medicaid billing, public corruption, multi-county fraud. | Yes. They can order you in and put you under oath. |
| State Inspector General | Misconduct inside state agencies and authorities. | Yes, if you work for the state. Refusing can cost the job. |
| Medicaid Inspector General | Provider billing. It arrives looking like a routine audit. | Yes. They take records and send what they find to prosecutors. |
| State licensing board | Complaints against doctors, nurses, and other licensees. | Effectively yes. Refusing to cooperate is itself a problem. |
| FBI, Albany office | Federal cases. Saratoga County work runs out of Albany. | No. The pressure comes later, from the U.S. Attorney. |
04Interviewed at work
Who does the lawyer in the room work for?
If your company, school, hospital, or town is running the investigation, the lawyer asking the questions works for them.
Their lawyer
The company’s lawyer
What you say in that interview belongs to the company, and the company alone decides whether to hand it to the government. You cannot stop them. A careful one will say this out loud before starting, and people talk anyway.
Your lawyer
Your own lawyer
Your conversation with us is yours. Nobody else decides what happens to it. Bring us the meeting invite before the meeting, not after, because after is when the record already exists.
05If you work for the state
What you need to say to protect yourself
If you work for the state, a county, a school district, or a city, you can be ordered to answer questions about your own work and disciplined for staying silent. That is the trap, and there is a protection most people are never told about.
The protection you have
They cannot use it to prosecute you
When your employer forces you to answer under threat of losing the job, a prosecutor cannot use those answers against you in a criminal case. The questions also have to be about your actual work, not your life.
The part nobody says out loud
Nobody has to explain this to you
The protection is real and it is silent. No one in that room is required to mention it, and refusing to answer can still cost you the job. Knowing which position you are in before you walk in is the whole ballgame.
Told to give a statement at work? Call before you do.
Schedule a Consultation or call (518) 633-152806If you are never charged
What it costs when no charge ever comes
Most people in an investigation are never charged. That does not mean nothing happens to them.
Your job
An employer does not wait for a verdict. Suspension comes on their schedule, not the investigation’s.
Your license
Your board decides on its own. A prosecutor passing on the case does not bind it.
Your name
Some of these offices publish reports. Fixing the record later is harder than shaping it now.
07Quick answers
What people ask us in the first call
Almost everyone who asks these has not been arrested. That is the right time to ask.
What does a Saratoga County district attorney investigator do?
They build cases for the district attorney’s office in Ballston Spa, interviewing witnesses, gathering records, and preparing matters for the grand jury. The part that matters to you: they cannot force you to talk to them. If you want a lawyer to make that call for you, the number is (518) 633-1528.
Can I get out of a subpoena as a witness?
Usually not, and ignoring one creates a second problem on top of the first. What a lawyer can often do is narrow what it asks for, move the date, or find out whether you are really only a witness before you walk in. Call before the return date.
My employer’s lawyer wants to interview me. Do I need my own lawyer?
Yes, and before the interview. That lawyer works for your employer, not for you. What you say belongs to them, and they alone decide whether to hand it to the government.
I am a teacher under investigation. Can I be fired for staying silent?
A Saratoga County school district can order you to answer questions about your own job and discipline you for refusing. What it cannot do is give those forced answers to a prosecutor. Nobody in that meeting is required to tell you so.
How long does a government investigation last?
Longer than anyone tells you. Months is normal, years is not unusual, and no one is required to update you or to say when it closes. That silence is the hardest part, and it is also the stretch where the work matters most.
The first conversation decides most of this
Bring the letter, the subpoena, the email from HR, or the voicemail. We will tell you who is asking, whether you have to answer, and what happens next. Nobody can promise you an outcome. We can make sure the first conversation is not the one that creates the case.
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