State of Michigan v. Jake Leon Jacobson

Lake City, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with four counts of criminal sexual conduct. Jake Leon Jacobson, age 31, was charged with four counts of second-degree CSC person under 13. “This office devoted significant resources to the prosecution of this case, and I am pleased with the outcome. The prosecution of allegations such as these will continue to be the hi ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - )

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. KHALIEF ONZEL BALLARD

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing the district court’s orders denying his motion for compassionate release. Khalief Onzel Ballard appeals the district court’s orders denying his motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) and denying reconsideration. Upon review of the record, we conclude that the district court did not abus ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - VA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVON PERRY

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing the district court’s order denying his motion for compassionate release. Davon Perry appeals the district court’s order denying his motion for compassionate release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194. We review the district court†... More $0 (07-24-2021 - VA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MARVIN RASHAAD CUMMINGS, a/k/a Ray Ray

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with seeking to appeal the district courts’ orders denying relief. Marvin Rashaad Cummings, Randolph Levy Hyman, Jr., Thomas Lamont Jones, Raphael Davonne Powell, Joshua Hunt, Marcus Gerome Hyde, and Kendricus Marquell Williams (collectively, “Appellants�) seek to appeal the district courts’ orders denying relief on their ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Marvette Thompson Easterling, Keylon Wright, and Joshua David Armato

Greenville, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Marvette Thompson Easterling, 54, of Gaffney; Keylon Wright, 40, of Simpsonville; and Joshua David Armato, 37, of Georgia; admitted that they knowingly defrauded a program established to help homeowners at risk of mortgage loan default ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - SC)

United States of America v. John Barry, Jr.

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. John Barry Jr., of Pemberton, and his co-conspirators falsely represented to clients that they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by obtaining tax refunds. To carry out the scheme, Barry and his co-conspirators filed forms with the IRS that fraudulently claimed tha ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - NJ)

United States of America v. David Camp

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act. David Camp was charged with conspiring with others to fix prices of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs sold through Amazon Marketplace. The price-fixing conspiracy was ongoing from at least as early as May 2018 until at least Oct. 29, 2019. Camp is the first individual to be charged ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - TN)

Steven Hotze v. Greg Abbott, et al.

Houston, Texas civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued the Governor of Texas challenging the constitutionality of a state statute. ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

Angelina Jolie v. William Bradley Pitt

Los Angeles, California family law lawyers represent Petitioner and Respondent in dissolution of marriage (divorce) case. Angelina Jolie filed a statement of disqualification challenging Judge John W. Ouderkirk (Ret.), the privately compensated temporary judge selected by Jolie and William Bradley Pitt to hear their family law case, based on Judge Ouderkirk’s failure to disclose, as required b ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Michael Caldararo

Barnstable, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with rape and strangulation. Michael Caldararo was charged with rape and strangulation. ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - MA)

Commonwealth of Pennsyvlania v. Michael Paul Strunk

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually assault. Michael Strunk, age 34, was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl on multiple occasions during the spring and summer of 2019. ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

State of Colorado v. Cordell Schneidere

Durango, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with vehicular homicide. Cordell Schneider was charged with homicide and reckless driving for the March 4, 2020, crash near Marvel that killed 39-year-old Benjamin Sonntag. Defendant claimed that Sontag was riding in the wrong lane to speed his training ride. ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CO)

Schaneiqua Marie Wright v. C R Bard Incorporated, et al.

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a product liability claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of a defective and unreasonably dangerous product manufactured and placed in the stream of commerce by Defendant. Plaintiff used Defendant's blood clot filter and suffered injuries and complications as a dir ... More $2,549,160 (07-23-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Shaykh Abdul-Majid

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged for committing a series of armed robberies and for brandishing a firearm in relation to a violent crime. From March 28, 2020 to July 5, 2020 Abdul-Majid committed at least four robberies in which he posed as a customer before pointing a semi-automatic handgun at a victim employee, demanding store proceeds, and obtaining fu ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - MD)

United States of America v. Rasheed Mickens

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Chief Melissa R. Hyatt of the Baltimore County Police Department. Mickens has prio ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - MD)

United States of America v. Armad Jamall Gatling

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, aggravated identity theft, and credit union fraud. “With today’s sentence, the defendant has been held accountable for the serious nature of his crimes, including his recruitment of over 50 co-conspirators to participate in an extensive fraud scheme involving the ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Bruce H. Matson

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with obstructing an official proceeding in connection with his attempts to thwart a 2019 investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee. According to court documents, Bruce H. Matson, 64, misled the U.S. Trustee’s Office in 2019 when he made false statements in response to allegations that he misappr ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Charles D. Holley, a/k/a Charlei Diwan Holley

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax fraud. Charles D. Holley, aka Charlei Diwan Holley, owned and operated a data brokerage business. As part of this business, Holley purchased data information from state motor vehicle agencies, which she re-sold to various buyers. Holley set up bank accounts in which to deposit the proceeds of her business activi ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

United States ex rel. Pennetti v. Interface Rehab, et al.

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary. During the relevant time period, Medicare reimbursed skilled nursing facilities at a daily rate that reflected the skilled therapy and nursing needs of qualifying ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Audrey Renetta Odem

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit tax fraud and Aid in Preparing and Presenting False Tax Returns. From 2012 through 2016, Audrey Renetta Odom, of Durham, conspired with Karen Jones and Andrea Pasley t prepare false returns for clients. The returns fraudulently lowered the clients’ tax liabilities or inflated their refunds ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Willie M. Burks, III

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving another of their civil rights. Willie Burks, 42, was indicted for failing to stop an officer under his command from assaulting an inmate at ADOC’s Elmore Correctional Facility. The evidence at trial established that when Burks watched calmly as his subordinate, Sergeant Ulysses Oliver, took a handcuffed an ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - AL)

United States of America v. Brian Jeffrey Raymond

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual abuse and admitted to the abusive sexual contact of numerous women, as well as photographing and recording dozens of nude and partially nude women without their consent during his career as a U.S. government employee. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, of La Mesa, was most recently employed by the U.S. government at the U.S ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - DC)

United States of America v. Nedeltcho Vladimirov

Charleston, West Virgnia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and three counts of money laundering. Nedeltcho Vladimirov, 53, a native of Bulgaria, was convicted by a jury after a three day trial Evidence at trial revealed that Vladimirov operated a fraudulent fencing operation - a scheme in which stolen goods were acquired in order to ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Nicholas Stella

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in an illegal gambling business that involved wagers on professional and collegiate sporting events. NICHOLAS STELLA, 43, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business. The sentence was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the N ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Angelica Garcia Dunn

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud. Angelica Garcia Dunn admitted to diverting over $2.2 million in vendor payments to her own business accounts. She worked as a contract escrow agent with BP. As part of her duties, she provided third-party services by making vendor payments to BP’s railcar lessors and repair vendors. Dunn received lump sum paym ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Yi-Chi Shih

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally exporting integrated circuits with military applications to China the required filing of electronic export information. Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was convicted on July 2, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Administ ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Nasheed Jackson

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks. Nasheed Jackson, 24, of Newark, and Alexander Varice, 22, and Dashawn Duncan, 27, both of South Orange, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to informations charging e ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - NJ)

United States of America v. Alexander S. Rowland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Alexander S. Rowland, 30, formerly of Penns Grove, NJ, was sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $2.1 million restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Karen Spencer Marston, for defraudin ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Thomas Whitten

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, Health Care Fraud, and Conspiracy to Distribute Phentermine Hydrochloride and Diethylpropion. Thomas Whitten, age 71, of Greensburg, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William S. Stickman. In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advise ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Jim C. Beck

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, frauds and swindles, engaging in wrongful monetary transactions and making false statements. Defendant, the suspended insurance commissioner of Georgia, was accused of being a fraudster who orchestrated a a scheme to channel millions from the Georgia Underwriting Association through a series of companies i ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Kashon Stacy Cunningham

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Kashon Stacy Cunningham, a Clayton, NC resident, was chargeed of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). On May 22, 2020 in Smithfield, the Smithfield Police Department, and detectives w ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Genghis Taylor

Wheeling, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug distribution. Taylor, also known as “G,� 38, pleaded guilty to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base Within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location.� Taylor admitted to selling cocaine base, also known as “crack,� near Riverview Towers in Ohio County in May 2020. Taylor faces at least one year and ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Corey Allen Tucker

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Tucker shot an individual six times in South Charleston on January 7, 2019. Later that day, investigators with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department located Tucker in a South Charleston residence and found a 9mm pistol magazine loaded with unfired cartridges in his j ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Richard James Pfost

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of 100 grams or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. Richard James Pfost, 38, of Beaver, was the front seat passenger in a vehicle traveling in Belle when deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Dennis Hutton

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Dennis Hutton, 33, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to a federal gun crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on June 28, 2019, at a hotel room at the Quality Inn in Mineral Wells, Wood County. During the ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Ricky Lee Clark, Sr.

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug and gun felonies. Ricky Lee Clark, Sr., 53, of St. Albans, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of firearms, and being a felon in possession of ammunition. According to court documents, a member of the St. Albans Police Department pulled over Clark ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. RC Theatres Management, LLLP

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused with violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA�). The United States Department of Justice received a complaint that the Queensgate RC Theatre was not accessible to individuals with visual impairments, namely the movie theater did not have descriptive audio headsets. After an investigation wi ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

Edward Morgan v. Target Corporation

Concord, New Hampshire personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages. ... More $1 (07-22-2021 - NH)

Lynn M. Krammer v. PROCON, LLC and Stebbins Commercial Properties LLC

Concord, New Hampshire civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendant on an employment discrimination theory. This case was initially filed in the Hillsborough County Superior Court, ND, 216-2021-CV-00366, and was removed to federal court by Defendants. ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NH)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STEVEN SOMERS

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with unlawful possession of a firearm as an unlawful user of controlled substances charges. Under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3E1.1(a) (2018), a district court may decrease a criminal defendant’s offense level by 2 levels if the defendant “clearly demonstrates acceptance of responsibility for his offense.� To earn the ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - VA)