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United States of America v. Tyjuan Lighthall

Chicago, Illinois criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally possessing a loaded handgun in Chicago and fraudulently obtaining a small business loan under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act.

Tyjuan Lighthall illegally possessed the gun on Jan. 17, 2019, while riding in a vehicle in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side.

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United States of America v. Mary Cheatham

Detroit, Michigan criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with tampering with vials and syringes of liquid painkiller at the Detroit hospital where she worked.

Mary Cheatham, 42, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, a registered nurse who previously was employed in the critical care unit at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan, removed vials and syringes of injectable hydromorphone from the medicatio

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United States of America v. Janola Massaquoi

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements to a federal agency.

In March 2020 Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act which was designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the CA

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United States of America v. Raissa Kaossele, Damilola Ojo, Victor Ojo and Jamelia Thompson

Baltimore, Maryland criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud based on a business email compromise scheme ("BEC scheme").

A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four defendants with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Charged in the indictment are:

Raissa Kaossele, age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland;

D

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United States of America v. Kenneth Gaughan

Washington, District of Columbia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.

Kenneth Gaughan, age 44, of Washington, D.C., who used the alias of Richard Strauski, pleaded guilty on March 2, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to three counts: one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in the PPP

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United States of America v. John F. Cochcroft

Abingdon, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with misbranding a drug and trafficking anabolic steroids.

John F. Cochcroft, 37, of Lexington, South Carolina, pleaded guilty on May 25, to one count of introduction of a new drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead and one count of manufacturing and possessing with the intent to distribute and d

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United States of America v. The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation

Albany, New York civil Litigation lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false reports.

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (“EFC”) has agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations that it falsely certified that several individuals were working at EFC in support of a federal water-quality improvement grant when, in fact, they were working directly for no

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United States of America v. Diesel Ops, LLC and Orion Diesel, LLC

Detroit, Michigan civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of manufacturing, selling and installing aftermarket parts known as "defeat devices" designed to disable or bypass vehicle emission controls on motor vehicles.

The U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan awarded a default judgment, granting the proposed $10 million civil penalty against Diesel Ops LLC

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Nathan D. Richter v. Tracy Nelson, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourth Amendment.


Plaintiff brings claims against Defendants for violations of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution via 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pl.'s First Am. Compl. ¶ 1, June

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United States of America v. Timothy Ingram aka “Bleezy" and Joaquin Lopez

San Diego, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with "grandparent scam" fraud.

Timothy Ingram aka “Bleezy," age 30, from North Hollywood, California, and Joaquin Lopez, age 46, from Hollywood, Florida, were part of a network of individuals who, through extortion and fraud, induced elderly Americans across the United States to pay up to tens of thousands of dollars ea

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State of Florida v. Gary Dewayne Hardley

Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with committing incest.

A jury found Gary Dewayne Hardley guilty of incest with a
25-year-old female relative. At sentencing, the State sought to add
sexual penetration points to Hardley’s sentencing guidelines
scoresheet. The trial court denied the request and sentenced
Hardley to thirty days in co

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United States of America v. Shakeena Hamilton

Savannah, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds.

Shakeena Hamilton, 34, of McRae, Ga., was sentenced to 60 months in prison after she previously pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the U.S. Government, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern Dis

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United States of America v. Timothy Dale Warren

Wichita, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Kansas man on multiple charges for alleged crimes related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which is a federal law providing financial relief to businesses suffering economic losses because of the COVIID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the Small Business

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United States of America v. John F. Cochcroft

Abingdon, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with manufacturing and shipping unapproved drugs and anabolic steroids.

John F. Cochcroft, 37, of Lexington, South Carolina, pleaded guilty on May 25, to one count of introduction of a new drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead and one count of manufacturing and possessing with the intent to di

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Kari Lake, et al. v. Katie Hobbs, et al.

Phoenix, Arizona civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.


Plaintiffs allege that the United States' transition to electronic systems and computer technology for voting has “created unjustified new risks of hacking, election tampering, and electronic voting fraud.” (Doc. 3, First Amended Complaint

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In re Facebook, Inc., Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation

San Francisco, California class action consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on negligence theories claiming that they failed to exercise due care in safeguarding personal information collected by Facebook about its users claiming damages of $500 million.

Plaintiffs claimed that Meta Platforms, d/b/a Facebook allowed Cambridge Analystica, a company that supporte

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United States of America v. Chaz Duane Shields

Detroit, Michigan criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire and mail fraud.

Chaz Duane Shields, age 34, beginning at least as early as May 2020 and continuing through at least July 2021, Shields and others agreed to commit wire fraud. Specifically, Shields and his coconspirators submitted more than 240 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to more than 20 states and terr

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Walter E. Tate v. Browning-Ferris, Inc.

¶1 Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1981 §§ 1601 et seq., the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma certified for this court's answer the following question:

"Where an at-will employee terminated by a private employer files suit alleging facts that, if true, violate state and federal statutes providing remedies for emplo

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Waggoner v. Town & Country Mobile Homes, Inc.

¶1 This appeal presents an issue of first impression. Did the trial court err by instructing the jury on manufacturers' products liability when a design defect caused only deterioration in the product itself resulting in purely economic loss? We answer in the affirmative and hold that such a claim must be pursued as a warranty action.

¶2 There is a second issue. Did the trial court err

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Debra R. Thompson v. State of Delaware Department of Services for Children, et al.

Wilmington, Delaware civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of her right to due process and under state law against the State of Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families (“DSCYF”) and several individual defendants after Thompson was demoted and eventually terminated from DSCYF. The District Court dism

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United States of America v. Craig C. Franck

Bangor, Maine criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering charges stemming from his fraudulent receipt of Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) funds.

Craig C. Franck, 40, formerly owned CCF Acoustics LLC and CCF Acoustical Systems. Neither company was in business, generated income, or had employees in 2020 or 2021.

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United States of America v. Moazu Kromah, a/k/a "Ayoub," a/k/a "Ayuba," a/k/a "Kampala Man"

New York City, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to traffic in millions of dollars in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species, which involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants.

Mozsu Kromah, a/k/a “Ayoub,” a/k/a “Ayuba,” a/k/a “Kampala Man," pled guilty to

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United States of America v. Tory Lenard Troup

Atlanta, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking.

Tory Lenard Troup was the Atlanta-based leader of a ring of repeat offenders who moved large quantities of cocaine through Atlanta and laundered criminal proceeds using a network of bank accounts, business entities, and purchases of luxury and high-performance cars, homes, jewelry, and cosmetic surgery.

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United States of America v. Sharon Elizabeth Keegan

Savannah, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with producing child pornography.

Sharon Elizabeth Keegan, 30, of Midway, Ga., pleaded guilty to Production of Child Pornography

“This sentence brings to a close a depraved and vile episode of criminal child sexual exploitation,” said U.S. Attorney Estes. “Sharon Keegan and her husband will spend decades in fed

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Edward Rood v. Town of Ft. Myers Beach Florida

Fort Meyers, Florida personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.


This is an unusual Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) case. It is odd because despite a long, complicated history between the parties on these facts, it had nothing to do with Title II of the ADA. That is until Rood lost at a zoning he

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