A crypto-fraud expert and former assistant U.S. attorney has joined the Dallas office of Holland & Knight.
Camelia Lopez Shoemaker, who led numerous white-collar investigations for the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Texas, joined Holland & Knight as a partner this week.
“Camelia brings deep institutional knowledge of the DOJ’s enforcement priorities, decision-making processes and investigative strategies — particularly in fraud, cybercrime, digital assets and national security matters,” said Greg Binns, a co-leader of Holland & Knight’s Texas litigation practice group.
Shoemaker said, “I’m excited to join Holland & Knight’s accomplished Texas litigation practice group. I look forward to leveraging my extensive experience in the courtroom and across governments to effectively counsel and represent clients in each phase of litigation or regulatory investigations.”
Her most recent DOJ assignment was with the department’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training, where she worked with foreign law enforcement agencies on investigations involving cryptocurrency, hacking and the dark web.
For 16 years, she served in the Plano office of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District, where, for two years, from 2020 to 2022, she was senior counselor to the U.S. attorney. Before her federal service, she spent six years as a felony prosecutor in the Dallas County district attorney’s office.
Shoemaker graduated in 2002 from American University’s Washington College of Law. Her undergraduate degree, from Southern Methodist University, is in business administration with an emphasis on finance, economics and Latin American studies.