Gates Garrity-Rokous, JD
Chief Compliance Officer
GE Capital Solutions
Danbury, CT

Gates Garrity-Rokous is a partner in the White-Collar Defense, Investigations and Corporate Compliance Practice Group. He counsels clients on criminal, civil and regulatory investigations by federal and state agencies, conducts internal and external investigations for corporations and other entities, and advises clients on corporate compliance. Gates also speaks frequently to industry and attorney groups on a variety of issues, such as fraud detection and prevention, internal investigations and compliance, and health care fraud.

Most recently, Gates has represented corporate and individual clients in federal criminal investigations in the pharmaceutical, reinsurance, and accounting industries.  Other recent representative assignments include internal investigations involving SOX whistleblower complaints and kickbacks, the defense of clients investigated for public corruption, income tax evasion, and violations of U.S. export laws.

Gates was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney and the Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the United States Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. As Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator, he was primarily responsible for the health care fraud prosecutions of the United States Attorney’s Office in Connecticut, and he directed the health care fraud investigations of federal law enforcement agencies in the state and the region, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. Gates also directed collaborative efforts with state agencies, including the Connecticut Department of Social Services, Chief State’s Attorney’s Office, and the Office of the Attorney General.

In addition to health care fraud, Gates prosecuted complex cases involving financial and bank fraud, public corruption, tax fraud, money laundering, forfeiture, internet crimes and other computer-related offenses, violent crimes and narcotics offenses. Gates conducted felony jury trials, argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals and directed extended investigations with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

After graduating from Trinity College, he served for three years with the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law and a Member of the Yale Law Journal.  Following law school, Gates clerked for the Honorable T. F. Gilroy Daly of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, and the Honorable Thomas J. Meskill of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.