Cape Girardeau, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of meth. ...
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(12-24-2025 - MO)
United States of America v. Malik Reynolds
St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two felon-in-possession counts, one for a firearm that fell out of his pocket and the other for ammunition he used during a shootout. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). ...
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(12-24-2025 - MO)
Tanya N. Svoboda and Antonella M. Ortiz Colosi v. Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon Services, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 2021CH04516
Tanya Svoboda and Antonella Ortiz Colosi used a Virtual Try-On feature through Amazon’s mobile site and app to virtually test facial products like lip-stick and eyewear. ...
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(12-17-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Annazette Collins
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and false statements and willful failure to file return information.
After a career in the Illinois state legislature, Annazette Collins began evading tax liability. ...
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(12-18-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Alvin Beasley
Urban, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. ...
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(12-19-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. De’Adre L. Owens
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling meth and witness tampering.
Ryan Castleman drove Charlie Anderson, a confidential informant, to Centralia, Illinois, to execute a controlled buy from De’Andre Owens. When they arrived, Detective Dukes searched Anderson, provided him with $275 and a handheld recording device, and instructed that he ...
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(12-19-2025 - IL)
Ryan O'Donnell and Michael Goree v. City of Chicago and URT United Road Towing, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories.
After receiving a ticket in Chicago, a vehicle owner must
pay in full, enter into an installment payment plan, or contest
the violation. Municipal Code of Chicago (MCC) § 9-100-050.
If the owner fails to pay or successfully contest the violation,
the City of Chicago sends a noti ...
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(12-22-2025 - IL)
Ramona Milan v. Selene Finance, L.P.
Chicago, Illinois, consumer credit lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory.
Ramona Milam is an Illinois homeowner who took out a mortgage loan. Selene Finance acts as the loan servicer, collecting her mortgage payments on behalf
of the lender. When Milam missed payments in 2023, Selene sent her a letter internal practices prevented Selene from ...
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(12-22-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Alfredo Juarez-Perez
Madison, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentering the United States illegally for ht third time.
Following an indictment in October 2025 on a new illegal
reentry charge, a magistrate judge ordered Juarez-Perez
released, concluding that the immigration detainer precluded
a finding that he presented a risk of flight in his criminal case.
The distric ...
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(12-22-2025 - WI)
Cheryl Lane, et al. v. Stericycle
Chicago, Illinois, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued on Equal Pay Act violation theories
Stericycle sells waste-disposal services to healthcare organizations and commercial businesses. Its sales department includes two divisions: a national division, serving corporate entities including pharmacies; and a hospital division, serving hospitals and integrated delivery netw ...
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(12-23-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Joseph Carpenter
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child and activities relating to child pornography.
Carpenter exchanged online messages with an undercover federal agent posing as the father of an eight-year-old girl. Carpenter requested sexually explicit photographs and videos of the daughter. He also advised the “father” on what me ...
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(12-23-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Martinez Alexander, Jr.
Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of a machinegun.
Martinez Alexander, Jr., 20, was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on March 7, 2024, charging him with unlawful possession of a machinegun.
The evidence presented at trial revealed that on December 15, 2023, Alexander and Jaylan Atkins, 21, drove up to a ...
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(12-22-2025 - AR)
United States of America v. Gary Cox
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion by operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders used to support fraudulent claims for various medical items. ...
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(12-22-2025 - FL)
United States of America v. Wei Qiang Lin
Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with falsely labeling live turtles, snakes, and lizards as toys prior to exporting them in delivery boxes destined to Hong Kong.
between August 2023 and November 2024, Lin exported to Hong Kong approximately 222 parcels containing around 850 turtles, but he labeled the boxes as containing “plastic animal toys,” a ...
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(12-24-2025 - NY)
United States of America v. Elijah Suggs
South Bend, Indiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing 50 grams or more of meth.
Over the course of four transactions, Elijah Suggs, age 31, of South Bend, sold a total of about two pounds of methamphetamine to another person in South Bend.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration with ...
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(12-18-2025 - IN)
United States of America v. Edward L. Stief
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of unlawful monetary transactions in criminal derived property.
Edward L. Stief, Jr., age 42, met the victim in May 2023 after becoming acquainted with him while offering lawn care and landscaping services. Shortly thereafter, Stief used severa ...
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(12-18-2025 - IL)
Aidan Forsyth, er rel. United States of America v. Greenland LA Metropolis Hotel Development LLC, Greenland US Management LLC, and Greenland LA Metropolis Development III
Milwuakee, Wisconsin qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sue on a False Claims Act Violation theory.
The Greenland USA Entities own and develop real estate projects and are part of a large multinational corporation ultimately owned by the Greenland Holding Group Company Limited, a Chinese company with tens of thousands of employees worldwide.
In applying for their PPP loans, the Gr ...
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(12-11-2025 - WI)
United States of America v. Aquanis M. Williams a/k/a “Pirate”
Green Bay, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r distributing controlled substances.
From January through May of 2025, Aquani M. Williams, aka Pirate, distributed methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. On May 29, 2025, agents searched Williams’ residence and seized three firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, approximately $4,5 ...
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(12-19-2025 - WI)
United States of America v. Alfredo Rollins
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. ...
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(12-17-2025 - IL)
Shrella Benton v. Trans Union, L.L.C.
Chicago, Illinois, consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Credit Reporting Act violation theory.
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Common FCRA Violations & Penalties | Stein Saks, PLLC
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) violations involve credit bureaus (CRAs) or data furnishers messing up your credit report (like wrong balances, late payments, mixed files), not fixing disputes, reportin ...
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(12-23-2025 - IL)
Dustin Dean Cooper v. Trans Union, L.L.C.
Chicago, Illinois, consumer credit law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Credit Reporting Act theory under 15 U.S.C. 1681.
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The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) protects consumers from inaccurate, unfair, and irrelevant information in their credit reports, safeguarding against identity theft, data breaches, and unfair denial of credit or employment by ensuring th ...
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(12-19-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Christopher Bruce
Rockford, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking in contraband articles. ...
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(12-19-2025 - IL)
United States of America v. Ana A. Hernandez
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawfully interfering with housing rights.
On March 16, 2024, ANA M. HERNANDEZ, age 70, threw a glass bottle containing oil and a washcloth—a device commonly known as a “Molotov cocktail”—onto her neighbor’s back porch in Chicago. The incendiary device started a fire on the wooden porch, but no one was ...
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(12-26-2025 - IL)
State of Utah v. Ashlee Buzzard
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder.
Ashlee Buzzard, age 40, is accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee, whose body was found in a rural area of Utah more than 2 months after she went missing. ...
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(12-26-2025 - UT)
State of Oklahoma v. Phillip Smith
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with Knowingly Concealing Stolen Property and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
Phillip Smith is accused for shooting at utility workers with a BB gun and possession of stolen property. ...
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(12-26-2025 - OK)
State of Oklahoma v. Jose Alcaraz
Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with two counts of shooting with intent to kill.
Jose Alcaraz is accused for shooting two people at a Christmas Party that he crashed. ...
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(12-26-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Joe’Veon Penson Willis
Arkon, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of maintaining a drug premises (21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1)) and two counts of aiding and abetting false statements during the purchase of a firearm (18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(6), 924(a)(2)).
Joe’Veon Penson Willis operated a drug house with his half-brother. The government found out, raided the house, and arrested ...
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(12-18-2025 - OH)
Luther Poynter v. Aaron Bennett
Bowling Green, Kentucky, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a 82 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory.
Luther Poynter was incarcerated in the Barren County Detention Center (“BCDC”) on December 25, 2020, for contempt of court due to his failure to pay child support. On December 28, BCDC moved Poynter to a general-population cell, where Scotty Wix and Timothy Guess were ...
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(12-17-2025 - KY)
Tawna Bowles v. SSRG II, L.L.C., Chicken Salad Chick
Covington, Kentucky, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an Americans with Disabilities Act Violation theory.
Chicken Salad Chick, a fast-casual restaurant chain, hired Tawna Bowles to serve as a cashier/service-team member at a franchise location in northern Kentucky. Bowles, who suffers from arthritis in her knees, requested that she be allowed to sit for five minutes af ...
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(12-17-2025 - KY)
State of Michigan v. John Doe
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder.
Detroit Jones, 38, died after Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) officers found him in the area of Southeast Lafayette Avenue and Sycamore Street at 1:30 a.m. with critical injuries from being shot.
The GRPD arrested a man believed to be the shooter. ...
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(12-23-2025 - MI)
United States of America v. Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and intending to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl.
During a search of Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath's Battle Creek, residence in March 2025, officers found over 1 kilogram of fentanyl, two firearms, thousands of dollars of cash, and what appeared to be an area designed to manufacture counterfe ...
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(12-19-2025 - MI)
United States of America v. Ceratizit USA, L.L.C. and Mark Alan Stover
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act.
Ceratizit USA LLC (Ceratizit), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based distributor of tungsten carbide products, has agreed to pay $54.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly failing to pay duties owed on tungsten carbide product ...
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(12-23-2025 - MI)
United States of America v. Michael W. Honaker
Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and Theft of Government Property.
Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay ...
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(12-19-2025 - OH)
United States of America v. Michael W. Honaker
Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property.
Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay ...
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(12-19-2025 - OK)
United States of America v. Jonathan Leissler
Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.
from about March 2022 to November 2024, Jonathan Leissler, 44, of Stow, Ohio, worked at an industrial supply company in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, as its chief financial officer (CFO). This role allowed him access to sensitive data such as payroll, expenditures, accounts payable, and company credit cards. H ...
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(12-26-2025 - Oh)
United States of America v. Eric Hendeson
Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
Henderson was sentenced in 2019 to 78 months in prison for his role in the Trevitt and Atcheson Crips (T&A) gang-related racketeering conspiracy. Henderson sold gram quantities of crack cocaine in Columbus and Chillicothe on behalf of the racketeering conspiracy, ...
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(12-19-2025 - OH)
United States of America v. David Mitsnefes
Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child exploitation and pornography crimes for allegedly hiding spy cameras in the house of minor victims.
Between 2021 and 2025, on multiple occasions the family of teenaged victims found hidden cameras in the minors’ bedrooms. David Mitsnefes, age 32, allegedly used wifi to save videos of the minor occupants in ...
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(12-18-2025 - OH)
United States of America v. Larry Walden
Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, by committing crop insurance fraud.
Larry Walden, age 69, owned and rented farmland in Barren County, on which he grew burley tobacco, among other crops. He maintained insurance coverage over his tobacco crop from at least 2014 to 2023. For Crop Years 2014 through 2019, Wa ...
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(12-22-2025 - ky)
United States of America v. Nathaniel Covington
Louisville, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r online coercion and enticement of a minor, sexual exploitation of a child, and transportation of a minor for sex.
Nathaniel Covington, 25, used an online social media application to meet a fourteen-year-old girl. He arranged to have the girl taken from Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky for a sexual encounter ...
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(12-22-2025 - KY)
United States of America v. Joshua M. Rogers
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destroying evidence related to a police officer’s fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H.
Joshua M. Rogers, age 33, plea established that Rogers’ co-defendant, Patric J. Ferguson, was on duty as an officer with the Memphis Police Department when Ferguson kidnapped and fatally shot R.H. on Janu ...
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(12-19-2025 - TN)