Arktouros PLLC • Miami Office

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Frank Murray is a former federal prosecutor and heads Arktouros’s civil practice. He is both a criminal defense attorney and complex civil litigator whose practice encompasses white-collar criminal defense, government investigations, complex commercial litigation, partnership and shareholder disputes, real estate litigation, and business torts—representing corporations, executives, professionals, and individuals from the earliest stages of complex disputes through trial. 

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Frank’s approach is direct and client-centered. He brings the tenacity of a federal prosecutor and the judgment of a seasoned litigator to every engagement, moving between the courthouse and the negotiating table with equal fluency. Clients rely on Frank because he understands, from both sides of the courtroom, how litigants build cases—and how to dismantle them.

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Although Frank is based in Miami, he routinely represents clients in New York, Washington D.C., California, Europe, Central America and South America. 

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Government Service

Before entering private practice, Frank served for nearly seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Florida. Assigned to the Criminal Division’s Economic Crimes Section and Special Victims Section, he led investigations, prosecutions, and trials across virtually every category of complex federal crime: money laundering and illegal monetary transactions; wire, mail, access-device, bank, and healthcare fraud; RICO; environmental crimes; aggravated identity theft; human trafficking; civil rights offenses; terrorism hoaxes; and child exploitation offenses.

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Among his most significant matters, Frank led the prosecution and dismantling of the “Newstar Enterprise,” an international child exploitation and money-laundering organization operating in over 10 countries that had sexually exploited vulnerable children in Eastern Europe for 15 years under the guise of child modeling. He also prosecuted and tried to guilty verdict the chief executive officer of Oasis International Group Ltd., convicted of orchestrating an $80 million FOREX trading Ponzi-style scheme. Frank prosecuted a multi-state RICO conspiracy involving the trafficking and forced labor of Mexican agricultural workers, and secured sentences of life and 35 years, respectively, for two Florida school administrators convicted of sexually abusing children. He also assisted state law enforcement to investigate a 14-year-old, unsolved kidnapping and murder of a minor in Hardee County, Florida, resulting in multiple second-degree murder convictions and life sentences.

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Before the Criminal Division, Frank served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Appellate Division, where he authored appellate briefs in direct appeals, argued before Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and coordinated the Office’s district-wide response to post-conviction litigation.

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Earlier Career

Before his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Frank served as a federal judicial law clerk. He worked on the federal Engle Tobacco docket before the Honorable William G. Young of the District of Massachusetts (sitting by designation in the Middle District of Florida), and subsequently for the Honorable Anthony E. Porcelli of the Middle District of Florida. He later participated in the Engle Tobacco federal mediation effort, which produced a $100 million settlement in February 2015. Frank assisted Judge Porcelli in his capacity as court-appointed Rule 53 Special Master overseeing the settlement, helping design and administer a plan for distributing settlement funds to qualifying plaintiffs.

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Recognition

Frank’s federal service was recognized with the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention (2021), the FinCEN Director’s Law Enforcement Award (2022), the Homeland Security Investigations Prosecutor of the Year award for the Tampa region (2020), and the Financial Crimes and Inspectors General Council Case of the Year Award (2023). He also received recognition from United States Attorney’s Office (MDFL) for Excellence in Victim Cases (2019), and Superior Achievement (2017). While in school, he was honored with the Boston College Law School Pro Bono Award and The George Washington University Silent Leader Award.

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Community Involvement

Frank is an active participant in the Florida legal community and has long directed that engagement toward service. He serves on the Board of the Federal Bar Association’s South Florida Chapter. During his years as a federal prosecutor, he volunteered with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida’s Intensive Reentry Program, working directly with inmates at high risk of recidivism to support their successful return to society. He was also a participant in Guys with Ties, a community outreach initiative through which federal prosecutors visited and mentored students at underserved schools. 

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Judicial Clerkships

• Law Clerk, Honorable William G. Young, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (2014)
• Law Clerk, Honorable Anthony E. Porcelli, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (2015)

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Education

• M.P.A., Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 2014  -- Merit Scholarship; Capstone Project: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism Review of Legal Challenges to Terrorist Sanctions and Prosecutions

• J.D., with honors, Boston College Law School, 2013 -- International & Comparative Law Review, Staff Writer; Public Interest Fellow

• B.A., with honors, The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, 2010

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Admissions

• Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

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Thought Leadership

• Inspectors General Council Law-Enforcement Training, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 2023 
• Boston College’s Defense of the Belfast Project: A Renewed Call for a Researcher’s Privilege to Protect Academia, 39 J. C. & U. L. 659 | Notre Dame Law School (Spring 2013)
• Transnational Organized Crime: Draining Development? Controlling Flows of Illicit Funds from Developing Countries, 66 COLUM. J. INT’L AFF., No. 1, 237 Fall/Winter 2012 (Book Review)

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