Daily Business Report: April 16 2026
Glaser Weil Expands White Collar Platform with Addition of Former Federal Prosecutor, Joseph Orabona
by Glaser Weil
Glaser Weil is pleased to announce that Joseph Orabona, a nationally recognized former federal prosecutor and trial lawyer, has joined the Firm as a partner in its Litigation Department. Orabona will be based in the Firm’s San Diego office and will spearhead the expansion of Glaser Weil’s Investigations and White Collar Litigation practice.
Orabona brings two decades of experience handling some of the most complex and high‑profile civil and criminal matters in the country. Prior to joining Glaser Weil, he served as Chief of the Special Prosecutions Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, where he led multidisciplinary teams prosecuting major fraud, public corruption, national security and cybercrimes and other sensitive, high‑impact cases. Over the course of his government career, Orabona also held senior leadership roles including Chief of the Violent Crime and Human Trafficking Section, Senior Litigation Counsel and Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Trial Team.
A veteran courtroom advocate, Orabona has tried more than 40 federal felony cases, argued nine matters before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, authored more than 30 appellate briefs and served as lead prosecutor in more than 1,500 criminal cases. His practice is defined by deep experience in evidentiary strategy, financial analysis and complex, long‑running investigations involving multi‑defendant conspiracies, international conduct and extensive electronic and forensic evidence.
By Marina Martinez Barba | Voice of San Diego
In 2015, construction workers plowed through an abandoned gas station in southeastern San Diego to make way for a new, temporary fire station.
The site, which would house a fire engine and an ambulance, was opening to improve emergency response times in the area after our reporting revealed people died of gunshot wounds and overdoses because emergency responders came too late.
Then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer applauded the city’s efforts at a press conference outside the soon-to-be station in 2015. He made a bold promise: “In two to three years, we will begin building a permanent fire station right here on this very spot.”
Poet laureate hopes community writing, video project help dispel myths about poetry
By Mireya Mine | Times of San Diego
The Spanish word “apertura” means “opening.” More specifically, the action of opening something, or the beginning of something new.
Paola Capó-García, San Diego’s current poet laureate, said that this definition reflects the what she hopes participants in her new community-based poetry project, Apertura 2026, will experience.
In her poem Wild, Capó-García wrote: “Lately I’ve been thinking about the difference between blooming and blossoming …The internet tells me that blossom refers to the flowers of fruit-bearing plants/While bloom can be any ol’ flower in the act of opening … but what is a body in bloom? … Blooming is the wild body unmarred by the limits of the world …”
