Bank Fraud Law
 
United States of America v. Dr. Jonathan Wayne Morris

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

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United States of America v. Jamar Jackson

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

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United States of America v. Jared Solomon

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

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United States of America v. Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani

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

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United States of America v. Van Jackson

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

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United States of America v. Clinton Rathan

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

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United States of America v. Queen Naja

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

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United States of America v. Joseph Elegele, Jr.

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

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United States of America v. Tyler Robert Buchanan

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

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United States of America v. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub

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

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United States of America v. Zachary Babitz

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

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Seamus Culhane, Turbak Law Office, P.C., Thomas Dickson and Dickson Law Office v. Bill Trovson

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’

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United States of America v. Raymond Porter, Jr.

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer David Bryant represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Raymond Porter Jr., 64, of St. Louis, was indicted with 28 felonies: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and four counts of money laundering.

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United States of America v. Amit Forlit

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Amit Forlit, 58, of Israel, a private investigator is accused of running in global hacking for hire organization that targeted environmental activists.

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United States of America v. Nael Jabbar

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and filing a false tax return.. Nael Jabbar (age 47) of Franklin, Wisconsin, owned and operated Hot Spot Super Market (Hot Spot) in Milwaukee, which was authorized to accept benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He signed documents for Hot Spot agreeing to comply with a

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United States of America v. Robert Dunlap

Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Robert Dunlap claimed to operate a cryptocurrency business that sold a purported digital asset called “Meta-1 Coin” through a “Meta-1 Coin Trust.” Dunlap made numerous false and misleading statements to potential and actual investors, including claims that the Meta-1 Coin was backed by as much as $

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United States of America v. Yuan Li

Charleston, South Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering. Yuan Li, age 35, joined the United States Navy in January 2022 after previously being discharged from the Army. During his time in the Navy, Li completed an Application for Naturalization to apply for U.S. citizenship. Li did not answer whethe

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United States of America v. Nicholas Parks

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Nicholas Parks, 53, of Winnetka, California, admits that from October 2020 through January 2021, he participated in a conspiracy to launder proceeds he and his associates generated through selling marijuana in Maryland. As part of the conspiracy, female co-conspirators tran

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United States of America v. Kelli Renee Miller

Clarksburg, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and identity fraud. Kelli Renee Miller, 43, 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

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United States of America v. Michael Graves

Charleston, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and false statement. Michael Graves On November 15, 2021, Michael Graves 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 for 2016 was approximat

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United States of America v. Jose Bello

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding investors who believed they were funding short-term, high-return loans for real estate transactions or storm damage repair. Jose Bello, Age 38, told investors that he worked with a group that would invest its money in short-term financing that Bello variously referred to as “private lending,”

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United States of America v. Leon Haynes

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Leon Haynes, age 52, of Teanck, New Jersey, was accused of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false tax returns, mail fraud, and tax evasion. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact, Congress authorize

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United States of America v. William Freeman, IV

Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of making and subscribing a false tax return. William Freeman, IV, age 46, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, submitted at least 10 applications seeking pandemic stimulus funds through both the Economic Injury and Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, as well as the Paycheck Protection

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United States of America v. Matthew James Addy

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, arising from schemes through which the defendant defrauded investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Matthew James Addy, 47, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, held himself out as a wealthy and successful busin

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United States of America v. Delos Thurston

Syracuse, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money order fraud. Delos Thurston, age 27, of Clinton, New York, admitted that between April 2025 and January 2026, while he was employed as the Postmaster of the Morrisville, New York, Post Office, he fraudulently issued 179 money orders for his own benefit without paying for them, and in so doing stole $118,088

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