| United States of America v. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson |
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Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson and D’Angelo Ferguson admitted to participating in the submission of three separate PPP loan applications, which included false representations and fictitious supporting documents. As part of the scheme, D’Angelo Ferguson claimed each company had a certain amount of mont $ (04-27-2026 - MI) |
| United States of America v. Barry Anderson |
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Cleveland, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Barry Anderson, was a 20-plus year employee with a multinational company specializing in industrial explosives and technical and blasting services, who served in various roles throughout the years. In his role as regional president, Anderson embezzled approximately $400,000 through a $ (04-27-2026 - OH) |
| United States of America v. Michael Shawn Boaz |
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Paducah, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Michael Shawn Boaz, 47, of Clinton, and his co-conspirator fraudulently billed health care benefit programs for customers at two pharmacies in Kentucky. From 2017 through 2021, they caused $2,185,739.52 in losses to health care benefit providers by submitting claims for fra $ (04-27-2026 - KY) |
| United States of America v. Echelon Fitness Multimedia, LLC |
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Chattanooga, Tennessee commercial litigation qui tam lawyer represented the the Plaintiff who sued on a false claims act violation theory. Echelon Fitness Multimedia, LLC (Echelon), a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company that sells connected fitness equipment, such as smart bikes, treadmills, and rowers and provides digital memberships that offer live and on-demand classes, sued on a False Cla $ (04-27-2026 - TN) |
| United States of America v. Mayra Collins |
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Corpus Christi, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and impersonating an officer or employee of the United States. Twenty-nine year old, Mayra Collins, is accused of fraudulently posed as a federal agent with various agencies in 2022 and again in 2025. She had first allegedly posed as an immigration officer employed by the United States to carry o $ (04-24-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Tyrone K. Jefferson |
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Newport News, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery with a deadly weapon and possessing and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to and furtherance of a crime of violence. yrone K. Jefferson, 38, worked for a rental car company where he had access to rental cars and license plates owned by the company. Jefferson stole several license plate $ (04-24-2026 - VA) |
| United States of America v. Kelli Renee Miller |
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Clarksburg, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, identity theft, and bank fraud. Kelli Renee Miller, 43, of Richmond, Virginia, worked with Michael Vordjorbe to assume the identities of account holders without their knowledge or permission and withdrew funds from accounts at several banks, some in the Northern District o $ (04-24-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. Michael Graves |
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Charleston, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and false statements. On November 15, 2021, Michael Graves, 70, of Charlton Heights, West Virginia, filed a Form 1040, U.S. Individual Tax Return for tax year 2016 listing his income as $816.00. As part of his guilty plea, Graves admitted that he filed a false return and that his corrected tax income $ (04-23-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. (SPLC) |
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Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit and conceal money laundering. The Southern Proverty Law Center, Inc. is accused of improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information. "The Just $ (04-24-2026 - AL) |
| United States of America v. Gannon Ken Van Dyke |
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New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with restriction of futures trading to contact markets unlawfully use of nonpublic confidential government information for personal gain, embezzlement or larcenby by an employee of the Unite States Government and wire fraud. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. Army special forces soldier, is accused of "betting" $33,034 o $ (04-24-2026 - NY) |
| State of Florida v. Mauricio Jimenez |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Jimenez, 48, of Hialeah, Florida, was a Home Depot Manager. He is accused providing discounts to “a core of accounts” and that the “high markdown activity” at his old store stopped once he left, and “took a dramatic upturn” at his new store once he arrived. Of the $55 million in gross sales th $ (04-23-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Elizabeth Goss |
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Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Elizabeth Goss, age 43, was accused of while working at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, accepted unauthorized payments from unemployment compensation claimants to approve and expedite Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and other pandemic-related unempl $ (04-22-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Randy Welch and Earnest Morant |
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP benefit fraud. Randy Welch, age 46, of Michigan, and Earnest Morant, age 58, of Harrisburg, engaged in a conspiracy to submit fraudulent SNAP benefits applications and then exchange the resulting electronic benefits transfer cards for cash. To further the conspiracy, Welch alleged $ (04-22-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Dr. Jonathan Wayne Morris |
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St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud, and illegal prescribing of controlled substances. Dr. Jonathan Wayne Morris, 46, was indicted with 15 counts of illegal prescribing of controlled substances and 23 counts of health care fraud. Dr. Morris has owned Columbia Urgent Care since at least 2019. From at least May 1, 2019, through Apr $ (04-22-2026 - MO) |
| United States of America v. Jamar Jackson |
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Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. On June 29 2020, Jamar Jackson and his co-conspirators submitted a fraudulent application for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) through the Small Business Administration for a business that he supposedly owned. The defendant and his co-conspirators knew that the EIDL applica $ (04-21-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Jared Solomon |
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New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud, identity theft, and bank fraud. Beginning in 2009, Jared Solomon, a Vornado leasing agent, created fake commercial real estate broker companies. Over approximately the next fourteen years, SOLOMON lied to his then-employer, Vornado Realty Trust, by claiming that brokers were owed broker fees or constr $ (04-22-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and money laundering. From approximately 2020 to 2024, the Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida and a citizen of France and Colombia, led a scheme to launder more than $300 million, much of which represented drug proceeds belonging to drug cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel and other tran $ (04-21-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Van Jackson |
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Burlington, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Van Jackson allegedly defrauded a Vermont medical practice of at least $400,000. This included $68,000 that Jackson allegedly wired into his personal bank account and then used to pay a settlement with a medical practice in New York. Jackson previously had worked for that medical practice and e $ (04-20-2026 - NH) |
| United States of America v. Clinton Rathan |
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Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Clinton Rathan, 33, was charged with four counts of Wire Fraud. He was arrested in Brookyln, New York, on April 16, 2026, and released on $15,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Concord, New Hampshire, on April 30, 2026. Rathan placed over 500 pick-up orders for groceries $ (04-20-2026 - NH) |
| United States of America v. Queen Naja |
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Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Nn April 2021, Queen Naja, age 45, contacted co-conspirator Quentin Diego Sturgeon of Montgomery, Alabama, through social media with a plan to fraudulently obtain funds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The scheme involved creating a legal trust, submitting false tax docum $ (04-21-2026 - AL) |
| United States of America v. Joseph Elegele, Jr. |
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Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Between August 2017 and June 2023, Joseph Elegele, Jr. (41, Orlando) was part of a fraud scheme that laundered funds that had been fraudulently obtained from various businesses throughout the United States and in the Bahamas. Elegele’s role in the scheme was to establish bu $ (04-20-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Tyler Robert Buchanan |
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Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From September 2021 to April 2023, Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, and other individuals conspired to conduct cyber intrusions and virtual currency thefts. The victims and intended victims included interactive entertainment companie $ (04-19-2026 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub |
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San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder millions of dollars of health care fraud proceeds. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub, age 51, of Chula Vista,m California, and her co-conspirators billed Medicare nearly $51 million for bogus prescriptions and were paid approximately $20 million, ultimately laundering at least $14 million dollars $ (04-19-2026 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Zachary Babitz |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by committing a series of armed robberies and carjackings across New Mexico in 2024 that culminated in the fatal shooting of a victim during a carjacking in Santa Fe County. Babitz, 40, committed a series of armed robberies, carjackings, and a fatal shooting across Bernalillo, Sant $ (04-17-2026 - nm) |
| Seamus Culhane, Turbak Law Office, P.C., Thomas Dickson and Dickson Law Office v. Bill Trovson |
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Watertown, South Dakota, lawyers represented the parties in a declaratory judgement actions. Bill Thovson, a South Dakota resident, contacted attorney Seamus Culhane, a South Dakota attorney, following the tragic death of Thovson’s wife, Paula, as a result of a car accident in North Dakota on July 28, 2020. Culhane agreed to represent Thovson and his minor daughter in relation to Paula’ $ (04-17-2026 - SD) |
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