Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire and bank fraud.

Brian Brainard Wedgeworth (a/k/a “Dr. Brian Anderson,” a/k/a “Dr. Anthony Watkins,” a/k/a “Dr. Brian Adams,” a/k/a “Dr. Edward Chen,” a/k/a “Dr. Brian Chris,” a/k/a “Dr. Chris Williamson,” a/k/a “Dr. Brian Christopher Williamson,” a/k/a “Dr. Brian Edmonds,” ... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - FL)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with securities fraud.

Felix Granowski, 58, of Matawan, and Alec Morgunov, 34, of Manalapan, admitted that between 2012 and 2016, they engaged in a scheme to sell high-mileage, used vehicles with false, low-mileage readings entered on the vehicles’ odometers and titles. According to court filings, the de... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - OK)

Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with having sexual contact with a child nearly 15 years ago at Fort Stewart.

Clarence Michael Lynch, 43, of Highland, Ill., pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child Under 12, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Already a registered sex offender because of a prior crimina... More...   $0 (05-19-2022 - GA)

Miami, Florida white collar criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged wit submitting false claims to Medicare for reimbursement.

The United States alleged that, from January 2016 to December 2020, VirtuOx violated the False Claims Act by falsely identifying the place of service for certain services it performed to obtain a higher rate of reimbursement from Medicare. In par... More...   $0 (05-19-2022 - FL)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with smuggling goods from the United States.

Jeffrey Hallin Olsen, 52, owner of Absolute Seafoods LLC, falsified documents and lied to authorities about disposing of 46 cases of potentially tainted geoduck from Alaska.
“Mr. Olson chose to gamble with the lives of customers across the globe – putting them a... More...   $0 (05-19-2022 - WA)

Coeru D'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant chargd with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Sean Robert Wathen worked with Larry Junior Hillbroom and others to acquire and smuggle methamphetamine through international airports between North Idaho and the Pacific Islands of Guam and Palau. Wathen acquired pounds of methamphetamine for Hillbroom over several m... More...   $0 (05-18-2022 - ID)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with interstate domestic violence assault by strangulation and one count of interstate domestic violence.

Geronimo Flores, age 30, of Abilene, Texas was indicted by a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging GERONIMO FLORES with domestic violence by strangulation and suffocation in violation of Title 1... More...   $0 (05-18-2022 - LA)

Santa Ana, Claifornia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with lying to a mortgage lender about his assets while seeking a loan for a $1.5 million home in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Todd Ament, 57, of Orange, was charged in a 99-page criminal complaint filed in United States District Court with making false statements to a financial institution while seekin... More...   $0 (05-18-2022 - )

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with failing to report his business income.

Kasali Opabola, Jr., age 41, a Lake Worth, Florida, and a tax preparer, was the sole officer and registered agent of FTP Tax Solutions, LLC, a company registered in Florida. Opabola grossly underreported his income from his business - FTP Tax Solutions, LLC, for tax years 2014... More...   $0 (05-17-2022 - FL)

Waterloo, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

In September and October 2019, Kierin Craig Johnson, age 24, of Waterloo, Iowa, posted several videos to social media showing him smoking marijuana and possessing a gun. Johnson also posted videos advertising the sale of marijuana. On October 18, 2019, law enforcement searched Johns... More...   $0 (05-17-2022 - IA)

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bringing in and harboring aliens.

On Sept. 17, 2020, Jose Luis Gutierrez-Plascencia entered the Border Patrol (BP) checkpoint near Sarita while driving a white Freightliner commercial tractor and pulling an enclosed trailer. At trial, the jury heard testimony that Gutierrez-Plascencia had told authorities he ... More...   $0 (05-17-2022 - TX)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and unlawful monetary transactions in conjunction with the operation of a romance scheme.

Hassan A. Abbas, 64, of Belgium, was convicted following a six-day jury trial of one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of money launderin... More...   $0 (05-17-2022 - MA)

St. George, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with failing to file financial reports with the United States Treasury after bringing currency in excess of $10,000 back into the United States from China.

Nam Ma, age 39, of Washington, Utah failed to report with the United States Treasury after bringing currency in excess of $10,000 back into the United States from ... More...   $0 (05-16-2022 - UT)

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Andrew Taylor Jr., 28, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to one count of wire fraud arising from a broad-based scheme to defraud the Unemployment Insurance Agencies of several states, along with numerous banks and retailers. He also pleaded guilty at that time to one count ... More...   $0 (05-16-2022 - ML)

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with
conspiracy involving shipments of narcotics from Arizona to Ohio.


Dawit Mamay, 24, is one of four defendants charged federally in a narcotics conspiracy involving at least 17 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl. As part of this case, law enforcement seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash fr... More...   $0 (05-13-2022 - OH)

Pekin, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with unlawfully giving back a confiscated firearm to his son.

Jeffrey Heinking was accused of giving a firearm to his son, who had been a mental health patient and who was prohibited from possessing a firearm for five years.

§ 24-1.  Unlawful use of weapons.

(a) A person commits the offense of u... More...   $0 (05-13-2022 - IL)

Gainesville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child porn.

in September 2020, Matthew Lee Ostrander, age 36, of Missouri, was arrested in Gainesville, Florida for an outstanding warrant from Missouri. At the time of his arrest, he had also failed to register as a sex offender in the State of Florida. He knowingly possessed electronic devices ... More...   $0 (05-13-2022 - FL)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Thomas Gerard Mautone, 43, formerly of Newark, New Jersey, was one of five individuals who together perpetrated a monthslong scheme to convince an elderly man to invest $1 million in a fraudulent high-yield international investment scheme. In July 2015, one of Mautone’s co-defendants, Jared Mack, 46, ... More...   $0 (05-13-2022 - OR)

New York, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with multi-year bank and securities fraud scheme that caused the issuance of approximately $133 million in collateralized loans on the basis of forged documents, including subscription agreements from purported limited partners, audit letters attesting to his private equity firm’s finances, and falsified bank account state... More...   $0 (05-13-2022 - NY)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with mail fraud.

Donmonick Martin, age 30, of Chalmette, conspired to defraud commercial airlines through the submission of false claims for reimbursement for lost baggage. In January 2021, MARTIN’s co-conspirator Pernell Jones, Jr. (“JONES”) took a flight to New Orleans under a fictitious identity. Short... More...   $0 (05-12-2022 - LA)