Consumer Fraud Law
 
United States of America v. Jaivon Davon Taylor, Jadin Winfield, Dennis James Swint, and Nicolas BeltreTaylor

Jackson, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy scheme. Jaivon Davon Taylor, Jadin Winfield, Dennis James Swint, and Nicolas Beltre, all residents of New York state, conspired with each other to use false passports in a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from banks in the Jackson, Mississippi area. These defendants

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United States of America v. Docterance Atkins

Aberdeen, Mississippi, one count of Wire Fraud, and a separate count of Money Laundering. The investigation began after IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) received a tip Docterance Atkins, 32, had committed COVID-19 Fraud. IRS-CI conducted a thorough investigation unveiling Atkins’ scheme. In essence, Atkins recruited unsophisticated individuals in the community, and convinced them to fraud

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United States of America v. Leessa Augustine

New Orleans, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud schemes while employed as a Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans (“S&WB”) Senior Special Agent, a position that tasked her with investigating the alleged misconduct of other Sewerage & Water Board employees. LEESA AUGUSTINE sentence was imposed on her guilty pleas to three counts of Wire Fraud and

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United States of America v. Dr. Mark Malone, et al.

Austin, Texas, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a False Claims Act fraud claim. Dr. Mark Malone, Advanced Pain Care, and related entities have agreed to pay the United States and the State of Texas $13,625,000 to resolve allegations they submitted false claims for urine drug testing to federal and state healthcare programs. The United States will receive $13,590,544.88 and Texas will

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United States of America v. Nathan Reis

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nathan Reis, 47, of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, and previously of Arizona, conspired with others to submit false and fraudulent PPP loan applications to receive loan funds for which they were not eligible. In April 2020, Reis co-founded Blueacorn, purportedly to help small businesses and

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United States of America v. Yolanda Baker

Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Yolanda Baker, age 51, defauded the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security (NCDES) by submitting false pandemic unemployment benefits (UI) applications intended for more than $365,000 in federal benefits. From in or about May 2020 to June 2021, Yolanda Baker carr

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United States of America v. Vanessa Valdez

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and sch

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United States of America v. Melissa Apodaca

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud.

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United States of America v. Letitia A. James

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. James, a Democrat, was indicted in October on one count of making false statements to a financial institution and one count of bank fraud. She pleaded not guilty to the two charges before the case was dismissed.

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United States of America v. Venkateswara Reddy Chagamreddy and Sai Praveen Kommana

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding a victim while posing as federal law enforcement officials.. 18:1349 Wire Fraud Conspiracy (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (1) 18:1951(a) Interference with Commerce by Threat (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (2) Venkateswara Reddy Chagamreddy, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sai Praveen Kommana, 29

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United States of America v. Carlos Aquino Sosa, Edwin Palacios Sosa, and Delvin Velasquez Romero

Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants with participating in an an expansive bank fraud conspiracy resulting in significant losses to small businesses and community banks in more than a dozen states. Carlos Aquino Sosa, 26 years old, of Honduras, was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by 1 year of supervised release after pleading guilty to two counts of

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United States of America v. Linda Sun

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with being an agent of China. United States of America v. Linda Sun is a federal criminal case against Linda Sun, a former high-ranking aide to New York Governors Cuomo and Hochul, who is accused of secretly acting as an unregistered agent for China's government, accepting millions in bribes, and facilitating visa fra

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United States of America v. Steven Holtz, Israel Pellot, and Alton Scott

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false federal tax returns. HOLTZ is the owner and chief executive officer of The Holtz Group and was the leader of the fraudulent scheme in which tax preparers at The Holtz Group, including HOLTZ, PELLOT, and SCOTT

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United States of America v. Jay Lucas

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The charges in the Indictment arise from an alleged scheme by LUCAS to raise more than $50 million from investors by falsely representing that their money would be invested in early-stage health and wellness companies, when in fact it was

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United States of America v. Eric Van Vleet

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary prescriptions. From February 2018 to September 2019, Eric Van Vleet, 30, of Delray Beach, Florida, operated Hype Med LLC, which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions through a telemarketing and telemedicine scheme. As part of the health care fraud

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United States of America v. Jesse Foote

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme. From December 2017 to March 2021, Jesse Foote, 60, of Fairfield, Connecticut, conspired with overseas telemarking call centers, DME suppliers, telemedicine companies, and doctors to submit fraudulent claims to health care b

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United States of America v. Neil John Aaron Williamsky

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Medicare of $172 million, commit money laundering, and pay kickbacks and bribes in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Neil John Aaron Williamsky, 65, of Marlboro, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit

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Jana Rabinowitz, et al. v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., et al.

Central Islip, New York, consumer credit law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on Fraud or Truth-In-Lending theories.

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United States of America v. Dagashaun Parks

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud.

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The United States of America, et al. v. Marymount Manhattan College

New York City, New York commercial litigation lawyer represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that it was eligible for a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan. The PPP, administered by the SBA, was created to assist small businesses nationwide adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations such as MMC were

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United States of America v. John O’Brien

Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with in a scheme to defraud homeowners in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, said Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom. John O’Brien, 28, pleaded guilty on December 10,2025, to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. O’Brien will be sentenced on March 11, 2026. The sentence imposed will be det

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United States of America v. Richard Harris

Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Richard Harris, 23, and a coconspirator, Paul Logugune, broke into unattended vehicles to steal purses and wallets to obtain driver’s licenses and checkbooks. Harris and Logugune forged checks using the stolen checkbooks and made the checks payable to

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United States of America v. Hector Ariel Ortiz-Guillen

Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a fraudulent immigration document in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a). Hector Ariel Ortiz-Guillen, 26, was charged with one count of knowingly possessing a fraudulent or forged Permanent Resident card. According to the charging documents and other publicly filed documents in the case, U.S. Borde

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United States of America v. Rashawn Anthony Robinson-Mills

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of mail, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Rashawn Anthony Robinson-Mills, 25, admitted that between August 2023 and January 2024, he traveled along the Gulf Coast breaking into blue U.S. Postal Service letter boxes and stealing mail. Robinson-Mills broke into multiple boxes at several locations in A

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United States of America v. Dantavious Jackson

Augusta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. On December 15, 2025, a truckdriver who operated a “ghost” tax preparation business on the side was sentenced to federal prison for making claims for refunds of false COVID-19 related employment tax credits. Dantavious Jackson, 39, Union City, Georgia, owned and operated a trucking business in Union Ci

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