George B. Newhouse, Jr.
GEORGE B. NEWHOUSE, JR.
Commissioner
George B. Newhouse, Jr. is a white-collar criminal defense/commercial litigation attorney at Richards Carrington, LLC. A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Newhouse was also a partner at Dentons US LLP, and the chair of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP’s white-collar criminal defense practice. Prior to entering private practice in 1998, Mr. Newhouse served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (USAO) from 1986 to 1998. For seven years, Mr. Newhouse served as an Assistant Division Chief, supervising approximately 30 attorneys in the Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Mr. Newhouse's forty-two years of experience includes criminal investigations and approximately 50 trials in a variety of white-collar criminal and complex civil trials and arbitrations -- both as a prosecutor and defense lawyer. While a prosecutor, Mr. Newhouse tried several complex government fraud matters involving major defense contractors, in which he obtained convictions and multi-million dollar fines in cases involving Hughes Aircraft and Rockwell Corp. In addition, he acted as the coordinator for terrorism and foreign counterintelligence matters with the FBI in Los Angeles until 1998.
Mr. Newhouse has served as an Adjunct Professor of the Practice at the University of Southern California, Dornsife College, Department of Political Science, where he has taught several courses to undergraduates: (1) The Politics of Criminal Justice for twenty-four years (1998-2003, 2007-2025) (2) White Collar Crime (Fall, 2012) and Constitutional Law (2023-25). He also served in an advisory capacity to two Independent Counsels, Robert Ray, Esq. (In re: Whitewater) and Donald Smaltz, Esq. (In re Espy). In 2000, he served as a Deputy General Counsel to the Los Angeles Police Commission’s Rampart Independent Review Panel. Mr. Newhouse has also lectured extensively at various continuing education and legal conferences and has written a chapter on “White Collar Crime” in a book published by Prentice Hall on the Construction Industry (January, 2004). Mr. Newhouse frequently provides legal insight on such matters in the major print and broadcast media.
Mr. Newhouse graduated from Harvard University with an A.B., cum laude, in psychology in 1976. Mr. Newhouse was a three-year starter on the Harvard University Football Team, attaining All-Ivy Honors twice. He received a Master’s degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University in 1983, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Mr. Newhouse received his law degree from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated Order of the Coif in 1982. He clerked for a federal judge in New York City prior to entering private practice in 1983.