Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses.

Willis Lewis, age 48, and Brittany Jones, age 32, were indicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses, in connection with their trafficking of a 15-year-old... More...   $0 (05-24-2022 - DC)

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with securities fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading based on material, nonpublic information.

Prior to its acquisition by Sanofi, Kadmon was a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company that engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecules and biologics with a fo... More...   $0 (05-24-2022 - SC)

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with for conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

In 2020, Idown Raji, age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, conspired with multiple other individuals to defraud, use, and traffic in unauthorized access devices and obtain more than $900,000 in unemployment insurance and other COVID-19 related benefits. Moreover, from Oc... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - MD)

Alexandria, Virginia fraud defense lawyer represented defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act.

Cape Henry Associates (Cape Henry), located in Virginia Beach, agreed to pay $425,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to inform contracting officers of the company’s organizational conflicts of interest in connection with the award and perf... More...   $435000 (05-23-2022 - VA)

Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with false representation of a medcaid matter in violation of 42 U.S.C. 1320.

Rakesh Reddy Kothuru, 49, pled guilty in January 2022 to one count of knowingly and willfully making false representations of material facts for payments under federal health care programs. The conviction means Kothuru is subject to mandat... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - VA)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraudulently appling for Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

On Nov. 18, 2021, a federal jury found Olusola Ojo, age 49, also known as Sam Ojo, 42, guilty of bank fraud conspiracy, two counts of bank ... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - OK)

Clarksburg, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud with identification documents and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.


On April 29, 2022, the Defendant, Ray Roberto Carrion Susana (“Susanaâ€�), appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Michael J. Aloi and moved for permission to enter a plea of GUILTY to Count Three of the Superseding Ind... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - WV)

Greenville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme.

Peter Bolos and his co-conspirators, Michael Palso, Andrew Assad, Scott Roix, Larry Smith, Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor and Maikel Bolos, as well as various companies owned or controlled by some of these individuals, deceived pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), suc... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - FN)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with health care fraud and engaging in a kickback scheme.

Pat Truglia, 54, of Parkland, Florida, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Judge McNulty imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court. Two co-defendants, Ni... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - NJ)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Donna L. Summerlin, age 63, of Fortville, Indiana, was convicted in June 2021, of accepting over $1.2 million from victims of cross-border advance-fee schemes following a seven-day jury trial. Many of the identified ... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - PA)

Fort Worth, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with fraud.

In January, a federal jury convicted UDF CEO Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, UDF Partnership President Benjamin Lee Wissink, UDF CFO Cara Delin Obert, and UDF Asset Management Director Jeffrey Brandon Jester of ten counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, conspiracy ... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - TX)

Minneapolis, Minnesota consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on a consumer fraud class action theory.


Defendant Target Corporation advertises and sells Apple iTunes Gift Cards. Target receives the Gift Cards from a third-party vendor, and for each sale, receives a commission from that vendor. Upon arrival to Target, the Gift Cards are packaged in a way that... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - MN)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud and to money laundering for masterminding a scheme to obtain 14 fraudulent loans totaling approximately $11.1 million from the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPPâ€�). To date, a total of twenty-three individuals have been charged in connection with the fraudulent scheme. More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - GA)

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with conspiracy to bribe a public official, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, and honest services wire fraud.

John Costanzo, Jr. and Manuel Recio engaged in a scheme in which RECIO funneled tens of thousands of dollars to COSTANZO in exchange for COSTANZO providing sensitive law enforcement inf... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - NY)

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire and bank fraud.

Brian Brainard Wedgeworth (a/k/a “Dr. Brian Anderson,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Anthony Watkins,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Brian Adams,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Edward Chen,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Brian Chris,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Chris Williamson,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Brian Christopher Williamson,â€� a/k/a “Dr. Brian Edmonds,â€� ... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - FL)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy.

Matthew Engram, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; two counts of transportation of an individual for purposes of prostitution; and one count of conspiracy to commit interstate travel in aid of a r... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - MA)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with securities fraud.

Felix Granowski, 58, of Matawan, and Alec Morgunov, 34, of Manalapan, admitted that between 2012 and 2016, they engaged in a scheme to sell high-mileage, used vehicles with false, low-mileage readings entered on the vehicles’ odometers and titles. According to court filings, the de... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - OK)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with mail fraud.

Between June and July 2020, Amanda Fairfax, age 37, knowingly filed claims for PUA benefits on behalf of five individuals, all of which contained fraudulent statements. The U.S. Postal Service transported the resulting benefits to two addresses associated with Fairfax. In total, Fairfax fraudul... More...   $0 (05-19-2022 - PA)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with defraud an elderly relative of her interest in a three-family home and a separate scheme to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance.

Between August and September 2017, Giorgio “Georgeâ€� Fiorenza, 51, defrauded an elderly relative into signing a deed conveying her interest in a prop... More...   $0 (05-19-2022 - MA)