Carlos A. Moreno is a Principal of The iMoreno Group, PLC, where he offers legal representation to individuals and companies at all stages of federal and state criminal investigations and prosecutions, including initial appearances, detention hearings, grand jury proceedings, motions practice, suppression hearings, proffers, negotiation of plea agreements, pleas, trials, sentencing hearings, and appeals. Carlos also offers legal representation to individuals and businesses on a full range of immigration matters.

Carlos has over two decades of criminal law experience as a prosecutor at the federal and state levels. He served for 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and for five years as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) with the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

During his tenure as an AUSA, Carlos was the lead prosecutor in over 400 federal felony criminal convictions, including Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), fraud, abuse of official position, firearms violations, drug trafficking, bank robbery, and immigration violations. He also prosecuted hundreds of misdemeanors, negotiated hundreds of plea agreements, and proffered over 100 defendants as potential cooperating witnesses. Carlos handled hundreds of immigration matters, and has significant experience working with agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As an ADA, Carlos prosecuted felony burglary, larceny, robbery, assault, and attempted murder cases from indictment through trial; prosecuted approximately 60 felony narcotics cases, including jury trials, plea negotiations, pre­trial hearings and motions practice; and investigated and indicted approximately 80 felony narcotics cases and approximately 40 felony rape, domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse cases.

As a former prosecutor, Carlos understands the government’s strategy both inside and outside of the courtroom. He knows first-hand how prosecutors exercise their prosecutorial discretion, how they build and analyze the strength of a case, negotiate pleas, and decide when to take a case to trial. Carlos also understands the importance of resolving criminal matters effectively and expeditiously so that those charged with a crime can clear their names, remain with their families, limit damage to their finances, and move on with their lives. He will seek to have charges reduced or dropped entirely so that prosecution can be avoided. If a case does go to trial, Carlos will present the best possible defense.

In his immigration practice, Carlos offers legal representation to individuals and businesses on a full range of immigration matters, including family-based and employment-based permanent residency in the United States; citizenship and naturalization; nonimmigrant work visas; asylum; Temporary Protected Status (TPS); Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); visas for victims of crime, students, and exchange visitors; and the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.

Carlos is a 1993 graduate of the Boston University School of Law where he received a Juris Doctor degree and is a 1989 graduate of New York University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and State of New York.

Carlos was born in Cartagena, Colombia, legally immigrated to the United States as a child, and became a United States citizen when he was 12 year old. He joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve when he was 17 where he served for six years from 1982 to 1988. He was meritoriously promoted to Sergeant for outstanding service, and was honorably discharged in 1988.

Carlos is a native Spanish speaker.  He lives with his family in Virginia.