San Antonio, TX: International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) violation criminal defense lawyer represented Mehrdad Ansari, 40, a resident of the United Arab Emirates and Germany, was convicted by a federal jury in May 2021 for his role in a scheme to obtain military sensitive parts for Iran in violation of the Iranian Trade Embargo. In coordination with his co-conspirators, Ansari obtained... More...   $0 (09-14-2021 - TX)

Houston, TX: Environmental law lawyers represented Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, which agreed to pay $2.85 million in civil penalties and to improve its risk management program to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas.

In the complaint, filed by the govern... More...   $0 (09-14-2021 - TX)

Dr. Rachel Tudor sued her former employer, Southeastern Oklahoma State
University, under Title VII, claiming discrimination on the basis of sex, retaliation,
and a hostile work environment after Southeastern denied her tenure, denied her the
opportunity to reapply for tenure, and ultimately terminated her from the university.
A jury found in favor of Dr. Tudor on her discrimin... More...   $0 (09-13-2021 - OK)

Tulsa, OK: Consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory.

15 U.S. Code § 1692:

There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to th... More...   $1 (09-10-2021 - OK)

Santa Ana, CA: Telemarketing fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Gilbert N. Michaels, 79, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, 10 counts of mail fraud and five counts of money laundering.

Michaels owned and operated IDC Servco and Mytel International, companies that, with the assistance of boiler room operators, fraudulently sold toner... More...   $0 (09-08-2021 - CA)

Louisville, KY: Attempted extortion criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Dino Gaudi, age 64, of Mooresville, North Carolina, was informed his employment contract as an assistant men’s basketball coach would not be renewed, he attempted to extort money from the University of Louisville. Specifically, Gaudio threatened to report to the media that the University of Louisville men’s b... More...   $0 (09-06-2021 - KY)

Dallas, TX: Wire fraud and identity theft criminal defense lawyer represented the owner of a for-profit trade school convicted of bilking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr ruled that Jonathan Dean Davis, the 43-year-old owner of Retail Ready Career Center, will forfeit $72,480,225.03 – the total amount the VA paid him for military veterans’ st... More...   $0 (09-02-2021 - TX)

Brookyn, New York: Mortgage fraud by unlicensed broker criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brent Kaufman, age 50, who was charged by indictment stealing $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were meant to pay off the existing mortgages of his clients. Defendant was accused for stealing nearly $5 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds.

“With today’s guilty pl... More...   $0 (09-02-2021 - NY)

Cape Girardeau, MO: Violation of Controlled Substances Act civil litigation health care lawyers represented Saint Francis Medical Center (Saint Francis) resolving the Government’s claims under the Controlled Substances Act. According to the United States’ allegations, Saint Francis employed a Farmington, Missouri physician, Brett Dickinson (Dickinson), who wrote prescriptions for controlled ... More...   $0 (09-01-2021 - MO)

San Francisco, CA: Civil litigation health care lawyers represented Defendants accused by the United States of America with wrongfully billing inaccurate information about the health status of beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage Plans.

Sutter Health, a California-based health care services provider, and several affiliated entities including Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (dba Palo... More...   $0 (08-30-2021 - CA)

Little Rock, AR: False statement criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Steve Hill, age 57, who made misleading agents investigating his promotion of expensive compounded prescription drugs.

A veteran of the medical sales industry based in Memphis, in 2014 Hill began to promote compounded prescription drugs covered by TRICARE. His compensation equaled a fixed percentage of sales ... More...   $0 (08-27-2021 - AR)

Brooklyn, NY: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS” or “the Islamic State”).



In February 2016, Anthony Raymond Augustine, a U.S. citizen and California resident, traveled from San Francisco, California, to Northern Af... More...   $0 (08-23-2021 - NY)