False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato conspired to commit wire fraud and money laundering and defrauded hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters in an online crowdfunding campaign known as “We Build the Wall.”

Starting in approximately D

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Madeline Lee Williams v. Joshua Dwain Williams

Nashville, TN - Divorce lawyer represented appellee with seeking attorney’s fees and costs.



The plaintiff, Madeline Lee Williams (“Wife”), and the defendant, Joshua Dwain
Williams (“Husband”), were married on September 6, 2014, and separated on May 27,
2019. The parties have one

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State of Oklahoma v. Curtis Lafrance Jones Jr.

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Possession of a Stolen Vehicle

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA4, POSSESSION OF STOLEN VEHICLE, in violation of 47 O.S. 4-103
Date of Offense: 05/12/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
JONES, CURTIS LAFRANCE JR Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/28/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: POSSESSIO

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State of Oklahoma v. Megan May Parsons

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Obtaining Money, Property or Signature under False Pretenses

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, OBTAINING MONEY, PROPERTY OR SIGNATURE UNDER FALSE PRETNESES, in violation of 21 O.S. 1542 A
Date of Offense: 04/02/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
PARSONS, MEGAN MAY Disposed: DEFERRED, 03/

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United States of America v. Dawna Kellogg

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements on federal tax returns.

Dawna Kellogg, 61, of Williamsburg—while employed in the accounting department at the Johnson County District Court—stole at least $776,691.50 in cash from her employer between January 2010 and June 2017. Kellogg’s legal name was Dawna Brandt

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United States of America v. Douglas Lee Thayer

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Douglas Lee Thayer (68, of Mohave Valley, Arizona) was charged with two counts of mail fraud.

The government accused Defendant of orchestrating an adult adoption business scheme to fraudulently obtain more than one million dollars from his clients — who consisted mostly of Chinese and Sp

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United States of America v. Sherri Papini

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud and making false statements.

Sherri Papini, was accused of faking her own kidnapping and lying to law enforcement officers about it. She went missing for three weeks in 2016 and told authorities that she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic women. It turned out that she had been staying with a forme

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Lewis Ransburgh Sr. v. State of Mississippi and Mississippi Parole Board

Jackson, MS - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing from the denial of his request for post-conviction relief.



On July 23, 1991, Lewis Ransburgh was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in
prison. He was paroled on August 8, 2002.1 On September 18, 2007, Ransburgh’s

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State of Oklahoma v. Dustin Ray Cagle

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
False Declaration of Ownership in Pawn Shop

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OWN, FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP IN PAWN SHOP, in violation of 59 O.S. 1512(C)(2)
Date of Offense: 01/10/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
CAGLE, DUSTIN RAY Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/25/2022. Guilty Plea
Coun

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United States of America v. Raymond Magana

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with submitting fraudulent applications that included fake tax documents and information for non-existent employees.

Raymond Magana, 41, pleaded guilty in January 2021 to one count of fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits.

In May and June 2020, Magana submitt

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United States of America v. John Keeler and Darryl Brent Waltz

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charge with paying and receiving secret political contributions through a middleman.

A former Indianapolis-based casino executive pleaded guilty to causing false statements on the casino’s corporate tax return by concealing contributions to a local political party as deductible business expenses. Additionally, a 2016

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Melissa Chaudhry v. Springbok Health Inc. and Mark Jankelow

Denver, Colorado qui tam lawyers represented plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a false claims Act violation theory.

Springbok Health Inc., a medical clinic with locations in Colorado Springs and Pueblo West, Colorado, and Mark Jankelow, Springbok’s owner and Chief Executive Officer, have agreed to pay at least $125,000, and up to as much as $335,494, to resolve allegations they violated

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United States of America v. Robert Williams

St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Robert Williams, age 58, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged with numerous counts of bank fraud related to Payment Protection Program (“PPP”) loans.



The United States Small Business Administration (“SBA”) is an executive-branch agency of the United States government tha

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United States of America v. Maria Caceres

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Maria Caceres, age 56, of Coral Springs, Florida and formerly of Hamilton County, Indiana was employed by Seven Corners, a travel insurance business located in Carmel. Between May 2011 and September 2016, Caceres prepared and submitted thirty fraudulent insurance claims to Seven Corners totaling m

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United States of America v. Tyler Forbes

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with securities fraud.

Tyler Forbes, 27, of Manlius, New York, was employed as a trader on the U.S. Treasuries desk of a global financial institution. From approximately January to June 2019, Forbes engaged in an unlawful “spoofing” scheme to manipulate the price of certain U.S. Treasury securities traded in

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United States of America v. Patrick J. Quinn

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of government money and making false statements.


Patrick Quinn, 50, of Arlington, was charged with two counts of theft of public funds and two counts of making false statements. Quinn was arrested and charged in December 2019.

Since January 2012, Quinn stole more than $420,000 in veteran

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Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard

Fairfax, Virginia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendant on a libel theory claiming that he was damaged and/or injured as a direct result of his ex-wife accusing him of being abusive.

Amber Heard wrote an article published in the >Washington Post in which she said that she was abused by Depp.

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United States of America v. Diogo Santos Coelho

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with cybercriminal crimes.

The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the seizure of the RaidForums website, a popular marketplace for cybercriminals to buy and sell hacked data, and unsealed criminal charges against RaidForums’ founder and chief administrator, Diogo Santos Coelho, 21, of Portugal. Coelho wa

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United States of America v. Dustin Byron Thompson

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with witness tampering, theft of public property, entering and remaining in the Capitol Building without permission.

Dustin Byron Thompson, from Ohio, participated in the protest in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 and entered the Capitol Building and stole a coat rack.

He blamed his behavior on Donald Trump a

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United States of America v. Glenn Lijewski

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with violating the Clean Water Act.

Glenn Lijewski, age 71, of Pittsburgh, was the supervisor at the Aspinwall Drinking Water Plant, which is operated by the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (“PWSA”). Between 2010 and 2017, Lijewski and another supervisor at the plant discharged clarifier sludge directl

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Dawn Baker v. Dr. Abraham Rivera and Physician Partners of America LLC (PPOA)

Tampa, Florida civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants charged with violating the False Claims Act.

Physician Partners of America LLC (PPOA), headquartered in Tampa, Florida, its founder, Rodolfo Gari, and its former chief medical officer, Dr. Abraham Rivera, have agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing federal healthca

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United States of America v. Aaron Aqueron

Orlando, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct the IRS.

Aaron Aqueron, of Clermont, engaged in a nationwide tax fraud scheme and recruited clients to the fraud scheme by convincing them that their mortgages and other debts entitled them to tax refunds. Aqueron collected tax and financial information from the

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United States of America v. Wllliam Ray Turner

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud and Identity theft.

William Ray Turner, age 61, a former sales associate at a car dealership, admitted that on Sept. 14, 2020, he knowingly used identification belonging to another individual to submit a false loan application to Ally Bank for the purchase of a 2019 KIA Sorento in the approximate amount

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State of Oklahoma v. Henry Darian Wilson

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Larceny of an Automobile

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA5, LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1720
Date of Offense: 09/19/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
WILSON, HENRY DARIAN Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/24/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE(LA5)

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State of Oklahoma v. Jemima Sanchez

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Burglary - Second Degree


Count # 1. Count as Filed: BRG2, BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1435
Date of Offense: 07/28/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
SANCHEZ, JEMIMA Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/24/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE(

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