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United States of America v.Roberto Minuta, Edward Vallejo, David Moerschel and Joseph Hackett

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with seditious conspiracy.

Four members of the Oath Keepers were sentenced this week on seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertain

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United States of America v. Anthony Omar Brockman

Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with accepting Kansas City Chiefs playoffs tickets and a new Chevrolet Tahoe in exchange for facilitating a $12.4 million Covid fraud scheme by a Jefferson City, Mo., business owner, as well as a separate fraud scheme to receive unemployment benefits.

Anthony Omar Brockman, 48, who currently resides in Benning

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United States of America v. Bryan C. Perry and Jonathan S. O'Dell

Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiraing to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States – Mexico border.

Bryan C.

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United States of America v. Marisa Beck

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $360,000 in COVID-19 relief funding intended for endangered small businesses.

Marisa Beck, age 40, of Spokane, was accused of fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds.

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Sec

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United States of America v. Anise Kachadourian

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin

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United States of America v. Ilona Dzhamgarova and Arthur Arcadian

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged or their roles in an immigration fraud conspiracy. DZHAMGAROVA, a leader of the scheme and an immigration lawyer, was sentenced to two years in prison, and ARCADIAN, also an attorney, was sentenced to six months in prison.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Out of her Brighton Beach law office, Dzham

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Aaliyah Patterson v. Walmart, Inc.

Nashville, Tennessee personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory.



On the evening of December 13, 2018, Plaintiff and Ms. Puck arrived at Defendant's store in Lebanon, Tennessee to purchase some green beans and other miscellaneous items (Docket No. 39, p. 2; Docket No. 41-1, p. 4). They walked down the seasonal aisle t

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United States of America v. Donald Finley

Central Islip, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and disaster relief fraud.

Donald Finley, a Locust Valley businessman and owner of the now-defunct Jekyll & Hyde theme restaurant in Manhattan and the Bayville Adventure Park on Long Island, pleaded guilty to disaster relief fraud and wire fraud in connection with his receipt of millions of dolla

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United States of America v. Bennie Earl Magee

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in a joint scheme to defraud banks and the Small Business Administration of over $7 million in COVID relief funds.

According to court documents, from approximately April 2020 to March 2021, Bennie Earl Magee, 54, falsified payroll records, created fake IRS business tax returns, and submitted to lender

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United States of America v. James C. Sells, III

Nashville, Tennessee civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused to fraudulently appling for and received funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and violated the Controlled Substances Act.

Sells had ownership in several office-based opioid treatment programs in middle Tennessee, including Nashville Recovery LLC, which he sold in September 2022, Everwell Medical LLC,

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United States of America v. Guillaume Latour-Laitre

Utica, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

Guillaume Latour-Laitre, age 26, of Prevost, Quebec, Canada, admitted that from November 2019 through December 7, 2019, as vice president of a commercial trucking company in Quebec, he trafficked cocaine from the United States

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United States of America v. Leronce Suel and Ravae Smith owned Rockstar Dough LLC and Chicken Feed, LLC

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants charged with fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to falsify applications for pandemic relief funds.

Leronce Suel and Ravae Smith owned Rockstar Dough LLC and Chicken Feed LLC, both of which operated a series of restaurants in the San Diego area. From March 2020 to June 2022, Suel and Smith

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United States of America v. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, III and Kelly Meggs

Washington, D.C. criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, 58, for Gransbury, Texas, and Kelly Meggs, age 54, of Dunnellon, Florida, were found guilty on Nov. 29, 2022, following an eight-week trial and three days of deliberations. In addition to t

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Cheyenne Lemke-Vega v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

Oakland, California consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendants on breach of contract theory.


The complaint contains the following allegations.[1] On July 18, 2022, Lemke-Vega purchased a used 2019 Mercedes-Benz A220 (“the vehicle”) from Mercedes-Benz of Walnut Creek, an MBUSA-authorized dealership and repair facility. Compl. ¶¶ 8, 17. The total sale price w

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Jamalle Donntai v. Phil Sorrells, Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney

Fort Worth, Texas civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant seeking to vacate indictments and judgements of four state criminal cases he received in the 297th District Court,
Tarrant County, Texas: Case Nos. 1277347D (possession with intent to deliver heroin), 1277348D (possession with intent to deliver cocaine), 1277349D (unlawful possession of a firearm), and 1369654D (ag

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United States of America v. Tiera R. Lands

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with numerous false and fraudulent applications that she filed to obtain funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program in 2020 and 2021.

Tiera R. Lands, age 30, agreed, as part of her guilty plea that she ow

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Maria E. Gomez v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC

San Antonio, Texas consumer law lawyer represent Plaintiff opposing a foreclosure action filed by Defendant.

This case was filed in the 408th Judicial District, Bexar County, Texas, 2022CI14261, and was removed to federal court by Defendants.

Plaintiff challenged the jurisdiction of the court and sought remand.

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In re HIV Antitrust Litigation

San Francisco, California consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who brought a class action case against various pharmaceutical companies claiming that violated antitrust laws.


Currently pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' motion to exclude in which Plaintiffs seek to limit testimony from Defendants' damages expert Dr. Jena. Dr. Jena filed a supplemental report on May 11, /2

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Joseph Ozmun v. Portolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al.

Austin, Texas consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Collection Practices Act and Texas Debt Collection Practices Act violation theories.


Ozmun contends Defendants then violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the Texas Debt Collections Act (TDCA) when they (1) sought a default judgment against him for the full $2,065.21[1] and (2) comm

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Coalition for T.J. v. Fairfax County School Board, et al.

Alexandria, Virginia civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that he was discriminated against because he was Asian American in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Claims when he made application for adminssion to Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia.

The Court concluded that the Defendant's

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Megan Perkins v. The New York Times Company, d/b/a The New York Times

New York City, New York consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant claiming that Defendant violated the North Carolina Automatic Renewal Statute, N.C.G.S. Section 75-41(a).

Plaintiff Meghan Perkins, is a citizen of North Carolina, sued The New York Times claiming that it wrongfully renewed her digital subscription without her permission and in violation of North Carolina

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United States of America v. Kenneth Wilkerson

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently filing multiple fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance benefits using victims’ stolen personal identifying information.

“While communities suffered from the effects of the pandemic, the federal government worked to help small businesses and individuals avoid catastrophic economic disas

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Yoriy Yudin v. University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyer successfully represented Plaintiff.

Plaintiff filed a motion seeking to seal this case (“Motion”) asserting “[t]here is sensitive information in the case regarding Plaintiff's disability and documents that [are] classified as private under Utah Code § 63G-2 Government Record Access Management Act.”[1]

Local Rule DUCivR 5-

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Joshua Bell v. Annie's Inc.

St. Louis, Missouri consumer fraud lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on violation of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act along with other Missouri statutory and common law claims.

Defendant manufactures, packages, distributes, and sells organic Tropical Treat Bunny Fruit Snacks (the “fruit snacks”). Defendant packages and sells them in an opaque, “heavy cardboard

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Olynthea Johnson v. State of Vermont, et al.

Burlington, Vermont civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on a prisoner civil rights violation theory.

Plaintiff Olynthea Johnson, administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Johnson, brings this action against Defendants State of Vermont, Department of Corrections (the &ldquo ;Vermont DOC”); Robert Wright (“Officer Wright”); Sirena Zahn (“Officer Zahn”); Br

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