Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of extortion under color of official right and one count of conspiring to commit extortion.

Cox-Johnson, a former manager of the RMV service center in Brockton, took money in exchange for agreeing to give passing scores on learner’s permit tests for both passenger vehicle driver’s licenses and... More...   $0 (03-31-2023 - MA)

New Have, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.



From approximately May 2013 to April 2017, OLGA AUCAPINA, also known as Olga Aucapina Paredes, 53, a citizen of Ecuador residing in Woodbridge, and several other Ecuadoran nationals participated in a scheme to illegally obtain tax refunds from the IRS. In o... More...   $0 (03-31-2023 - CT)

Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with coercing and sexually assaulting two minor females that he recorded and retained on his cell phone.

In pleading guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography, Francis Scott, 42, admitted that on February 14, 2017, while falsely posing as a ride-shar... More...   $0 (03-31-2023 - RI)

Portland, Maine civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming violated their federal constitutional substantive due process rights under the state-created danger doctrine.

On December 29, 2012, Alivia Welch, Susan Johnson, and Derrick Thompson called the Biddeford, Maine Police Department and reported that their landlord James Pak, who lived in a house attached t... More...   $0 (03-31-2023 - ME)

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to steal firearms from federal firearms licensee.

Between August 29, 2021, and October 4, 2021, William Mejia, age 19, of Lswrence, conspired with others to steal firearms from three New Hampshire Federal Firearms Licensees. During the course of the conspiracy, more than 40 firearms were stolen f... More...   $0 (03-31-2023 - NH)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country.

In June 2016, Joseph Stanley Harjo, age 40, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, sexually abused a six-year-old child. Days later, the child disclosed the abuse and provided further details during a forensic interview. Five additional witnesses testified at trial that Harjo sexual... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with stealing fentanyl from two hospitals where she worked.

Faith Naccarato, 42, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to two counts of tampering with a consumer product and two counts of possession of fentanyl by deception and subterfuge.

According to court documents, between January 2020 and April 20... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - KS)

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with receiving ammunition while under a felony indictment.

Christopher Ray Edwards, age 37, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition, possession of firearm not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record and receiving ammunition while under a fe... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - WY)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl he was communicating with via Facebook Messenger – who was in fact an undercover officer.

According to court documents, Christopher Philip Padilla, 33, of Salt Lake City, admitted that between September 2020 and January 2021 he used Facebook Messenger and his cell phone... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - UT)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged for role in a scheme to illegally bring Honduran nationals to, and to distribute cocaine in, the United States.

Beginning in as early as January 2021, Josue Flores-Villeda, 36, and six co-conspirators schemed to bring Honduran nationals and cocaine from Honduras to the United States. In February 2022, Villeda and... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - LA)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident in Indian Country and driving under the influence of an intoxicating substance (DUI) in Indian Country.... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful reentry of a removed alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326, which provides:

(a) In generalSubject to subsection (b), any alien who—
(1) has been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding, and th... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2250.... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer Scott Troy represented Defendant charged with failing to register as a sex offender.

18 U.S.C. 2250 provides:

(a) In General.—Whoever—
(1) is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act;
(2)
(A) is a sex offender as defined for the purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification A... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with misprison of a felony.

18 U.S.C. 4 provides:

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall b... More...   $0 (03-30-2023 - OK)

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with leading a sprawling scheme to defraud Medicaid of millions of dollars through the billing of fraudulent transportation claims.

From August 2017 to February 2020, KJ Transportation C Services Inc. (“KJ”) was paid more than $20 million for providing transportation services for Medicaid enrollees in the New Y... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - NY)

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing service sin Montana and Wyoming.

Nathan Nephi Zito, 44, of Billings, pleaded guilty in October 2022 to an information charging him with one felony count of attempted monopolization in violation of the Sherman Act.

The government alleged in cou... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - MT)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful reentry into the United States after removal in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1325(a)(1).

(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts

Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as de... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - WA)

Yakima, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Unlawful User of Controlled Substances and Person Convicted of Domestic Violence in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition.

On December 16, 2021, James Duane Deckard, age 25, of Yakima, Washington, was involved in a domestic dispute where Deckard pointed a firearm at his intimate partner. On December 18, 2021, o... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking while armed with multiple firearms.

Santos Gutierrez-Fosella, age 24, of Mount Vernon, Washington, was indicted with two others on March 30, 2022. Robert Johnny was purchasing pills from Gutierrez-Fosella. He was sentenced in January 2023, to six years in prison. A third co-defendant, Steven Lo... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - WA)

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly aiming a beam of a laser pointer at a Kern County helicopter.

On Dec. 26, 2020, Andrew Nathan Hernandez, age 20, of Bakersfield, aimed the beam of a green laser at the Sheriff’s helicopter, striking it multiple times. Hernandez was attending a street race in the area of Hughes and White Lane in Baker... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - CA)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the United States.

Former Envistacom LLC President and co-founder Alan Carson, former Envistacom Vice President Valerie Hayes, and the owner of another company, Philip Flores, conspired to defraud the United States at least from September 2014 through November 2016, by preparing and procuring... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - GA)

Fort Myers, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant accused of failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accunts (FBAR), making false statements to the IRS, and willfully failing to fire tax returns.

From 2005 to 2015, Mark Anthony Gyetvay of Naples, Florida, concealed his ownership and control over substantial offshore assets and failed to file and pay taxes on... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - FL)

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal reentry following removal.

8 U.S.C. §1326(a) and (b)(1) Illegal Reentry After Deportation
(1) in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b).

(a) In generalSubject to subsection (b), any alien who—
(1) has been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed or has departed the United States while a... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - TX)

Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting with a conflict of interest.

Kathryn Drey, 55, of Pensacola, Florida, directed contracts from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida to companies in which her spouse had a financial interest, including while she served as chief of the office’s Civil Division. Drey concealed he... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - FL)