McGuireWoods disavows long term partner Howard "Toby" Vick over corruption involving international fugitive.
McGuireWoods law firm has terminated and disavowed one of its most distinguished partners, Howard C. Vick Jr., over deep state corruption allegations spanning over twenty years.
Inside sources at McGuireWoods have stated that Howard "Toby" Vick had been involved in corruption allegations in a FBI complaint filed, which involved bribery, coercion, illegal state and federal government activity, and numerous legal ethics violations.
McGuireWoods law firm is one of the largest firms internationally with over twenty-one offices and 1100 lawyers.
Since joining McGuireWoods, his practice includes all aspects of the white collar practice, from providing counsel on compliance programs, conducting internal investigations and audits, to the handling of trials. Toby has 32 years of trial experience and has tried more than 60 jury trials. He has tried cases in Federal courts in the Eastern and Western District of Virginia, the Southern Districts of Florida and Texas, the District of Louisiana and the State Courts of Virginia.
The complaints originate from a case that Howard Vick had investigated and brought grand jury charges against an international fugitive who was indicted on thirteen indictments of drug trafficking in Richmond, Virginia.
Howard Vick was the Henrico County Commonwealth Attorney handling the fugitives case in 1998-1999. Howard Vick had tipped off the fugitive that he was being indicted by a multi-jurisdictional grand jury for conspiring to distribute 600 kilos of cocaine over a 10 year period.
The fugitive named in the grand jury indictments is Nickolas G. Spanos, who fled to Greece and has been protected by Howard Vick and other high profile McGuireWoods partners, for over twenty years.
James B. Comey, a prior McGuireWoods partner, was a U.S. Attorney based in Richmond, had allegedly conspired with Howard Vick to have federal Unlawful Flight warrants dismissed secretly against the fugitive, which allowed him to renew his U.S. passport and evade law authorities.
The foundation of the illegal protection of the fugitive spans over twenty years and has been passed down through three generations of Henrico county Commonwealth attorneys.
During the term of Howard Vick's career as a Commonwealth attorney, the investigation of the international fugitive Nickolas Spanos came into conflict with Howard Vick's future plans to join his long time friend, Richard Cullen at McGuireWoods law firm. Howard Vick was negotiating a partnership with McGuireWoods but Nickolas Spanos and his family were clients of McGuireWoods with estate holdings worth millions.
Howard Vick was left with a devil dealing decision, either arrest and prosecute Nickolas Spanos for conspiracy to distribute over 600 kilos of cocaine in the Richmond area or assist and protect the fugitive from being extradited back to the United States and be prosecuted in Henrico County Circuit Court.
Howard Vick chose to take the bribe and break his sworn oath as a Virginia Commonwealth attorney, which appears to have paid well economically, as Vick has built a small fortune at McGuireWoods and recently bought a home in Windsor farms for $2.2 million, as well as a vacation home in Coral Cables Florida.
As much as the McGuireWoods criminal syndicate has tried to keep the fugitive off the radar, his case continues to live in Henrico Circuit court. With no effort from past and present Commonwealth attorneys to successfully extradite Spanos but instead continue the protection by McGuireWoods, even recently as 2019, assisting Spanos to obtain a U.S. passport.
Its no wonder that McGuireWoods is known as the shadow government with powerful connections in all branches of the U.S. government.
