False Pretense Law
 
Kim Vasquez v. Shameed Yadali, et al.

New York, New York civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued defendants on a 1983 civil rights violation theory.


Kim Vasquez brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in connection with a traffic stop that took place on April 15, 2015. The Third Amended Complaint, the operative pleading, seeks relief for “false arrest, unlawful imprisonment, due process, malicious pros

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United States of America v. Mohammad K. Mohmand

Bangor, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with access device fraud.

On January 2020, Mohammad K. Mohmand, 43, formerly of Orono, operated the Orono Thriftway Food Center convenience store. Mohmand used a payment terminal at the store to process over $100,000 in false credit and debit card returns to the accounts of family and friends. The false returns caused ill

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Tony Dinwiddie v. Margaret Danielle Pottin and Jennifer Ann Francis

Austin, Texas - Parental Rights lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the termination his parental rights.



K.J. was born in January 2019 to Dinwiddie and Patience Barnes. In mid-2021,
appellees Margaret Danielle Pottin and Jennifer Ann Francis filed a petition to terminate Barnes

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United States of America v. Julius Stoudemire and Jennifer Deramus

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into United States Penitentiary Atlanta (“USP Atlanta”), a federal prison.

“Introducing contraband into a federal prison endangers the safety and security of inmates, guards, and visitors alike,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “Jennifer Deramus, a correction

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United States of America v. Darrell Thomas

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud and to money laundering for masterminding a scheme to obtain 14 fraudulent loans totaling approximately $11.1 million from the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). To date, a total of twenty-three individuals have been charged in connection with the fraudulent scheme.

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United States of America v. Clarence Michael Lynch

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

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United States of America v. Kasali Opabola

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

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United States of America v. VirtuOx, Inc.

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

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United States of America v. Felix Granowski and Alex Morgunov

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

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United States of America v. Nan 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

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Hallin Olsen

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

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United States of America v. Hassan Abbas

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

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United States of America v. Todd Ament

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

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James Miller v. Heather Schupp

Fort Worth, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with a defamation case.



Miller sued Schupp for defamation after she made allegedly defamatory
statements about him to his sister and to a friend. Miller claims that in September or
October 2020, Schupp contacted Miller’s sister a

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United States of America v. Dawit Mamay

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

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United States of America v. Donmonick Martin

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

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Jonathan Eliazar Merlo v. Victor Manuel Lopez

Houston, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented appellee with contending there were improperly filed findings of fact and conclusions of law.



In December 2015, Merlo, a resident of Nicaragua, and Lopez, a resident of
the United States, met online. After corresponding for a few months, Lopez trave

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United States of America v. Thomas Gerard Mautone

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,

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United States of America v. Elliot Smerling

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

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Anthony Fludd v. Donielle Kirkwood

Annapolis, MD - Divorce lawyer represented plaintiff with appealing a child support claim.



Mr. Fludd and Ms. Kirkwood are the natural parents of two minor children. In
January 2012, Ms. Kirkwood filed a bill of complaint for custody of the parties’ then-only
child in the Circuit Court

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United States of America v. Goodfish Enterprises, LLC; Reliant Property Management Company; and Christopher Lukacs

Wilmington, Delaware civil litigation lawyer represented Defendants accused of violating the Federal Tort Claims Act by charging the Federal Government excess rent.

Goodfish Enterprises, LLC; Reliant Property Management Company; and Christopher Lukacs have agreed to pay $430,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act during their participation in the U.S. Departmen

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United States of America v. Paul J. Carter, a/k/a Paul Hamilton, a/ka/ Paul Cristallo

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statements on an immigration application.

Paul Carter, age 55, an Australian citizen residing in Watervliet, New York, admitted to lying about his criminal history when he sought to renew his E-2 visa in 2018. E-2 visas admit certain foreign nationals who have invested a substantial amount of money i

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State of Oklahoma v. Branden Michael Moisan

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Grand Larceny

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LMFR, GRAND LARCENY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1705
Date of Offense: 12/09/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
MOISAN, BRANDEN MICHAEL Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/06/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: GRAND LARCENY(LMFR)
Violation of 21 O.S.

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United States of America v. Sergio Figueroa, a/k/a "Kash"

Bangor, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute fentanly.

In April 2021, Sergio Figueroa, aka "Kash," age 26, conspired to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. As part of the conspiracy, he used a residence in Bangor to store and distribute drugs. On April 21, 2021, agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Ad

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United States of America v. Alexei Saab, a/k/a Ali Hassan Saab, Alex Saab, and Rachid

New York, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to provide material support or resources to Hizaballh.

Alexei Saab, age 44, received military-type training from Hezbollah Islamic Jihad Organization.

According to court documents and evidence at trial:

Hizballah is a Lebanon-based Shia Islamic organization with political, social,

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