Mr. La Bella is a former United States Attorney, First Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of the Criminal Division for the Southern District of California. He was a federal prosecutor for 16 years, serving in Washington, D.C., and in the Southern Districts of New York and California. Since moving into the private sector in 1999, Mr. La Bella has provided clients with his expertise and judgment in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, business litigation, federal and state regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, corporate internal investigations, corporate governance and compliance issues, health care fraud, and public corruption investigations. Mr. La Bella has also been a conference speaker nationally and internationally regarding healthcare, corporate governance, compliance matters and litigation.   Mr. La Bella's private sector work includes serving as Senior Vice President and Special Counsel for a major software company, during which he directed an internal investigation into accounting irregularities; serving as court appointed receiver in Securities and Exchange Commission matters regarding Ponzi schemes; serving as court appointed receiver in a California Department of Corporations fraud action; representing a high level executive of a major health care corporation that involved two complex federal jury trials; representing public officials and senior executives during the course of grand jury, enforcement and regulatory investigations, and securities class action matters.