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United States of America v. Elliot Sterling

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, financial aid fraud, and engaging in monetary transactions involving property derived from specified unlawful activity.

As the evidence at trial demonstrated, with respect to the Department of Education wire fraud and financial aid fraud counts, Mr. Elliot Sterling, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louis

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United States of America v. Derald Wilford Geddes

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, tax evasion and engaging in a corrupt endeavor.

Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, was a dentist who owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC. From approximately 1998 through 2014, Geddes took numerous steps to evade approximately $1.8 million in back federal income taxes that he owed.

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Mojdeh Omidi and Aurora Telleria v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and FirstSight Vision Services, Inc

San Diego, California civil litigation class action lawyers presented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants b unlawful, fraudulent and unfair business practices theories claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of the failure on the part of Defendants' business practices.

Plaintiffs originally filed a class action complaint in Superior Court of t

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United States of America v. Joseph Albert Corey

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with engaging in a fraud schemes causing more than $3.5 million in losses.

Joseph Albert Corey, 57, and last known to live in or near Los Angeles, was initially charged in 2019 with depositing fraudulent checks into accounts opened under the false name “Dennis Dupont.” Posing as Dennis Dupont, Corey opene

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United States of America v. Marcos Valenzula

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with unreasonable force on an individual who had applied for admission to the United States from Mexico.

The jury trial began Monday. The jury deliberated for an hour and a half before finding Valenzuela guilty of two charges, Deprivation of Rights under Color of Law and Falsification of Records in a Federal Inve

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United States of America v. TriLink Saw Chain, LLC, and TriLink Global, LLC (TriLink)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa civil litigation lawyers represented defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act by misclassifying their imported chain saw chains and blades to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP).

The government specifically alleged that from September 24, 2018, though June 10, 2019, TriLink classified imported chain saw chains and blades under inappropriate subheading

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United States of America v. Christopher Myers

St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with depriving another of their constitutional rights.

Christopher Myers, 30, of St. Louis, Missouri pleaded guilty to willfully depriving another of their civil rights by damaging the property of former undercover police officer Luther Hall, while acting under color of law. J

As a result of the 2017 acqui

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United States of America v. Kelli Cashion

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and theft of government funds.

Kelli Cashion, 59, was was charged by a federal grand jury in October 2019, and the indictment alleged that she had been employed as a clerk and paralegal at the Herrod Law Firm in North Little Rock from 2009 until 2018. Hogue had previously been a licensed attorney

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United States of America v. Ricardo Munoz

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud.

Ricardo Munoz, was indicted for using money from a political fund to pay personal expenses.

While serving as Alderman of the 22nd Ward in Chicago, Munoz used money from a political action committee formed by the Chicago Progressive Reform Caucus (CPRC) to pay a relative’s college tuition and oth

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The People v. Matthew Muller

Vallejo, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary and false imprisonment.

Matthew Muller pleaded no contest to two counts of forcible rape of Denise Huskins, who was dragged from her Vallejo home in 2015, the county district attorney’s office said.

Muller was charged and convicted of kidnapping

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State of Oklahoma v. Stephanie Lea Garner

Enid, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OROB, ATTEMPTED ROBBERY FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 797
Date of Offense: 04/28/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
GARNER, STEPHANIE LEA Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/17/2022. Nolo Contendere Plea
Count as Disposed: OTHER CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE(OPJ)

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United States of America v. Michael Joseph McShan

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with production and receipt of child pornography.

Michael McShan, age 28, was convicted after a 5-day trial, which began on October 28, 2021, was conducted before United States District Judge David M. Lawson in Detroit. The jury deliberated approximately an hour before returning the guilty verdicts.

Accordi

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Anthony Fludd v. Donielle Kirkwood

Annapolis, MD - Divorce lawyer represented appelant with a motion to modify.



For nearly a decade, the parents of the two children at the center of this case have
been fighting over custody and child support, flooding the docket in the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County with over 500 entrie

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Commonwealth of Virginia v. Robert Lee Jeffrey, Jr.

Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of obtaining money under false pretenses of more than $1,000 from CARES Act money.

Robert Jeffrey, Jr. was a Roanoke City councilman who was indicted by the Commonwealth of Virginia which claimed that he obtained fraudulently lied about his business dealings to the Roanoke Economic Development office

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United States of America v. Robert J. Bondonno

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with ive counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to launder money, and 27 counts of promoting money laundering.

Robert J. Bondonno of Henderson, Nevada age 66, created and distributed investment materials to potential investors containing materially false statements and omissions rega

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United States of America v. Bart Wade Reagor

Amarillo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud.

Bart Wade Reagor, 55, was found guilty of making false statements to a bank insured by the FDIC.

At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors introduced into evidence videos of Mr. Reagor berating his employees for not hitting their sales targets.

“You gotta want to win more than you want

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United States of America v. Billy Efrain Penaranda

Wilmington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with using a fraudulently obtained naturalization certificate. Moreover, Penaranda was civilly denaturalized as a U.S. citizen.

According to court records, on June 20, 2019, Penaranda knowingly used a fraudulently obtained naturalization certificate to apply for a North Carolina driver’s license. On Augus

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United States of America v. Moshe Porat

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Moshe Porat, 75, of Bala Cynwyd, PA, the former Dean of Temple University’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management (“Fox”) from 1996 until 2018, was convicted at of fraud in connection with a scheme to artificially inflate the school’s program rankings a

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United States of America v. Scott Charmoli

Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with five counts of health care fraud and two counts of making false statements related to healthcare matters.

The evidence presented at trial established that Scott Charmoli engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud dental insurance companies into paying for unnecessary crown procedures. The evidence showed that,

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Phillip S. Jennings v. Liberty Operating, Inc., et al.

Norman, Oklahoma civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a breach of contract theory claiming to have suffered more than $10,000 in damages.

Plaintiff invested $75,000 for a working interest in a certain well in oil well in Texas.

Plaintiff claimed that Defendants individually and on behalf of Liberty, made false material representations to obtain th

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United States of America v. Rani El-Saadi

Washington, District of Columbia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with election law crimes.

Rani El-Saadi was charged with Conspiracy to Make Conduit Contributions, Make Excessive Contributions, Cause False Statements, and Cause False Entries in Records, in volation of 18 U.S.C. 371, and Making Conduit Contributions and Aiding and Abetting in violation of 51 U.S.C. 3

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United States of America v. Ivan Isho

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, false impersonation of federal officer and stalking.

Ivan Isho, age 44, of Peoria, Arizona, impersonate a police officer.

Isho showed them counterfeit FBI credentials and a gun to back up his story.

He told members of the Assyrian community in Ceres, near Modesto, in 2016 and 20

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United States of America v. Scott Tucker

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax fraud.

In November 2021, Scott Tucker, 59, of Leawood pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false or fraudulent tax return. According to court documents, Tucker owned a professional auto racing business called Level 5 Sports. On a 1040-tax return in 2010, Tucker reported that Level 5 had approximately $

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United States of America v. Adam George Redmon

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with mail fraud that victimized at least eleven national retailers and financial institutions.

According to court documents and facts presented in Court, over the course of a three-year period, Adam George Redmon, age 38, of Austin, Texas, repeatedly engaged in mail fraud by falsely telling victim-retailers that he f

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United States of America v. Christopher Huggett

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.

Christopher Huggett, age 30, of Grand Junction, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. After his term of incarceration, Huggett will serve 3 years of supervised release.

According to the plea agreemen

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