Celeste Higgins

Practice Areas

For over 28 years, Celeste represented individuals in federal court in cases ranging from: international terrorism; international drug trafficking; OFAC charges; aggravated identity theft; fraud cases including securities, bank, insurance, consumer, mail, and wire fraud; slavery charges against a Miami-Dade professor; bank robbery; a diverse selection of Medicare fraud cases, extortion, gun statute violations; drug offenses, immigration offenses, child pornography, and cruise ship rape on the high seas.

Celeste has tried over 100 federal cases to trial, including bench trials and civil forfeiture cases. She has appeared as counsel in over 1000 cases in federal court in the Southern District of Florida.