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Larry Eastepp is an attorney in Houston, TX. He is a 1981 graduate of Â鶹ÊÓƵ with a degree in Criminal Justice. While at Lamar, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, serving as its president in 1978-79. He obtained a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1984 and while there was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal honors fraternity. Following law school, he was a Jefferson County Assistant Criminal District Attorney in Beaumont, including serving as a felony chief prosecutor. He then began a long career with the United States Department of Justice working in the offices of the United States Attorney for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas.

As a federal prosecutor, he specialized in white-collar and public corruption prosecutions, including serving as a supervisor of white-collar prosecutors in Houston. As a white-collar prosecutor, he was involved in many financial institution cases as well as other type fraud cases including arson-for-insurance schemes, Medicare and private insurance fraud schemes, real estate development fraud, Ponzi schemes and various other type mail and wire fraud prosecutions. As a public corruption prosecutor, he was involved in dozens of investigations, including significant prosecutions involving systemic corruption within a district attorney's office; the prosecution of two state district judges for bribery, and he led a large-scale, multi-year FBI undercover investigation into governmental contracting bribery in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas. As a direct result of this investigation and the resulting 20+ prosecutions, he was awarded the highest honor given by the FBI to a federal prosecutor.

During his federal career, he was also honored with the Chief Postal Inspector's Special Award for a successful mail bomb prosecution and other commendations from the Director of the FBI, the United States Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, Veterans Affairs - Office of the Inspector General and from several United States Attorneys. He has taught at several state and federal seminars, including national training for the FBI agents assigned to investigate public corruption, and was sent to Europe by the United States government to assist the U.S. Embassy's efforts to instruct prosecutors and agents in the nation of Albania on how to investigate and prosecute public corruption.

In March 2011, he took an early retirement from DOJ and opened a solo practice in Houston with an emphasis on white-collar defense of individuals and companies. While in private practice, he has represented numerous clients being investigated and prosecuted by the federal government, including chief executive and other corporate officers and medical doctors.