Nathan Frank

Nathan Frank is a law clerk at Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner, specializing in complex litigation on behalf of clients in a variety of industries. Upon admission to the bar, he will focus his practice on matters involving the False Claims Act, White Collar Defense, and Commercial Litigation. Nathan brings a wealth of high-level government experience to his practice, having served as an Acting Unit Chief and Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. His tenure at the Bureau includes serving as the Acting Chief and Program Manager in the Criminal Investigative Division, where he oversaw nationwide field office programs and federal investigations. As a Supervisory Special Agent, he also headed the National Border Corruption Task Force and founded the Technology Advisory Group, serving as the Washington Field Office's Special Agent representative for the Director's Advisory Committee to enhance technical capabilities in investigative and legal tools at the Bureau.

Nathan’s investigative experience includes roles as a Special Agent for the Federal Public Corruption Squad and Joint Terrorism Task Force. In these roles, he served as a case agent for highly sensitive investigations involving Members of Congress and Cabinet-level officials, and led the investigation in U.S. v. Sabino, which resulted in the trial conviction of a senior State Department official for foreign bribery. In U.S. v. Sturgis, he opened and led an investigation into a former contracting officer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Department of Defense, resulting in a bribery conspiracy conviction. He later spearheaded a complex election crime and wire fraud investigation in U.S. v. James Kyle Bell, a first-of-its-kind federal prosecution because it was the first case to simultaneously target two fraudulent Political Action Committees (PACs) and pandemic-related Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud. Nathan also served as a Tactical Analyst for White-Collar Crime and Cyber Squads and the Extraterritorial Counterterrorism Squad for Latin America. Notably, he was the lead analyst in U.S. v. Leitman, tracing complex multi-layered funds through dozens of bank accounts to dismantle a massive Ponzi scheme (for which he received the U.S. Attorney's Office Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award), and in U.S. v. Scotton, a prominent five-week federal fraud and identity theft trial in the Southern District of Florida. His international experience includes assignments to the FBI's Legal Attachés in Panama City and Trinidad and Tobago, where he managed critical counterterrorism operations, conducted on-the-ground interviews of suspected terrorists, and coordinated with local officials as well as international partners.

As a recognized subject matter expert, Nathan has trained over 200 Special Agents, Intelligence Analysts, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys and has served as Certified Trainer on behalf of the Bureau for domestic and international partners on Public Corruption investigation best practices. As a Bureau certified trainer in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), he traveled nationwide instructing personnel on operational security (OPSEC) within technical dominion on the open and deep web. Nathan is also certified in the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Advanced Interrogation Techniques and trained in advanced interviewing techniques at FBI Quantico, bringing sophisticated insight into law enforcement tactics and subject cooperation. Over his distinguished career, he led complex undercover operations resulting in arrests and convictions, and received multiple FBI Incentive Awards for Exceptional Investigations as an FBI Case Agent and Program Manager.

Nathan also founded and managed a consulting company providing intelligence and investigative services to private sector utilizing 14 years of investigative experience, high-end technology and artificial intelligence tools. 

Outside of law, Nathan serves as a volunteer head coach of the Gainesville Basketball Association.

The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D., cum laude

Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, B.S. in Business Administration, Concentration in Finance, B.A. in Hispanic Studies, University Honors

• DC (pending)

Working Professional Fluency in Spanish

Certified Fraud Examiner

Certified in cryptocurrency analysis and tracing through Chainalysis

Co-author of amicus brief for U.S. Supreme Court case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond.

3rd Place in the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s Religious Liberty Writing Competition

Law School’s Executive Board for the Federalist Society

Ex-Corde Fellow for the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition