Capezza Hill, LLP

Attorney Thomas A. Capezza

Thomas A. Capezza practices in the areas of White Collar and Criminal Defense, Government and Health Care Investigations, matters involving State Agencies and Employees, as well as Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance. Tom has more than 20 years of criminal and civil investigatory and litigation experience, including service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of New York (Albany); Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit); Enforcement Counsel with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (NYC); and an Assistant District Attorney with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, which included assignment to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. Tom also has executive experience having served as the General Counsel to the New York State Police (Albany).

Tom has broad experience with the investigation and litigation of matters involving financial and securities fraud, health care fraud, pharmaceutical and FDA violations, cross-border crime, and violations of numerous other federal and state laws. As the General Counsel to the New York State Police, Tom also acquired extensive legislative, policymaking, litigation, and investigatory experience. During his tenure with the Division of the New York State Police, Tom managed the formulation of proposed legislation, evaluated and implemented policy and legislative initiatives, managed civil litigation involving the State Police or its members, oversaw internal regulatory and compliance matters, and provided legal and ethical guidance to the Superintendent of the State Police and more than 4,500 sworn police officers. In private practice, Tom frequently represents institutions and individual executives in the context of internal and government investigations.

Additionally, Tom brings to all his clients the attention to detail acquired from his substantial computer science and technology training and experience. This experience includes designing remediation database systems for Superfund sites for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and designing computer systems for the financial services industry.

Attorney Benjamin W. Hill

Benjamin W. Hill is a trial attorney whose practice focuses on serious personal injury, white collar criminal defense, and complex litigation. Ben has more than a decade of experience litigating and trying cases to verdict in federal and state courts. Prior to co-founding Capezza Hill, LLP, Ben was a Fulbright Scholar in Honduras, served as a law clerk for the Honorable Randolph F. Treece, a Federal Judge in the Northern District of New York, and was a partner at one of the Capital Region’s top litigation and white-collar criminal defense firms.

Ben has been involved in several high-profile cases, including United States v. Bruno, where he was part of the trial team that won an acquittal for the former New York State Senate Majority Leader after multi-week corruption trial, Soares v. State of New York, where he represented New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, successfully securing her dismissal from the case involving the constitutionality of the Commission of Prosecutorial Misconduct. In addition, Ben was recently appointed Special Master by a federal judge in NRA v. Cuomo et al., to assist the Court with discovery and privilege issues in a complex First Amendment case.

A skilled litigator and trial attorney, Ben has recovered millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients in a wide array of personal injury, product liability, civil rights, and commercial cases. He is fluent in Spanish and has represented Spanish-speaking clients throughout New York State in personal injury, wrongful death, and criminal defense cases.