Kevin McCarthy
Former House Speaker
Lynette Byrd
Former Assistant
U.S. Attorney
John Sellers
Former DOJ
U.S. Attorney
Michele A. Ratcliffe
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Dr. Nick Oberheiden
Attorney & Founder
De R. Emigh
Retired FBI Special Agent
Consultant
De R. Emigh is a retired FBI Special Agent with more than 21 years of federal law enforcement experience, including over 15 years as a Relief Supervisor and extensive training of new Agents. Her career spans major FBI divisions and includes leadership roles in complex criminal, civil, and national security investigations.
Ms. Emigh served on the FBI’s nationally recognized Health Care Fraud Strike Force in Miami, where she investigated large-scale fraud schemes involving physicians, laboratories, pharmacies, and medical equipment companies. She was the co-case agent in United States v. Minal Patel (LabSolutions), a $463 million genetic-testing fraud case—one of the largest of its kind.
Her experience also includes leading investigations into complex financial crimes, public corruption, human trafficking, civil rights violations, and organized criminal activity in the Omaha and Sioux City field offices. She has executed search and arrest warrants, conducted thousands of interviews, testified before federal grand juries, and completed sensitive background checks for judges, senators, and federal appointees.
Ms. Emigh spent over four years on the Chicago Joint Task Force on Gangs, where she investigated significant street gangs, conducted Title III wiretap operations, managed informants, and helped secure indictments against dozens of violent offenders—earning the Chicago Crime Commission Star of Distinction Award. She previously served on the Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force, contributing to both pre- and post-9/11 counterterrorism operations.
In addition to the FBI, she worked as a U.S. Probation Officer. She held multiple leadership roles within the Nebraska Department of Corrections, supervising maximum-security inmates, conducting internal investigations, and preparing parole evaluations.
Ms. Emigh holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and an M.S. in Criminal Justice with a minor in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska–Omaha.
