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United States of America v. Jeffrey Olsen

Pasadena, California - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with an illegally prescribing opioids charge.



The panel (1) amended its opinion filed April 23, 2021,
reversing the district court’s judgment dismissing with
prejudice an indictment charging Jeffrey Olsen on 34 counts
related to the unlawful d

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United States of America v. Devon Rekem-Jamyll Jones

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to make a false statement to a firearms dealer and making a false statement to a firearms dealer.

Jones, age 28, had a romantic relationship with a Tulsa County police officer who illegally purchased the gun for him in 2020, who previously pleaded guilty to buying the firearm for him.

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United States of America v. Tony Junior Jackson

San Francisco - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion charge.



Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to
engage in sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion in
November 2015, pursuant to a written plea agr

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United States of America v.Jeffrey Olsen

San Francisco - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with an illegally prescribing opioids charge.



The panel (1) amended its opinion filed April 23, 2021,
reversing the district court’s judgment dismissing with
prejudice an indictment charging Jeffrey Olsen on 34 counts
related to the unlawful distribut

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United States of America v. Sean Cutting United States of America v. Brian Melland United States of America v. David Lonich

San Francisco - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with fraudulent schemes concerning bank loans and real estate charges.



The panel affirmed Sean Cutting’s, Brian Melland’s, and
David Lonich’s convictions, but vacated their sentences and
remanded for resentencing, in a complex case arising from
f

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United States of America v. Gilbert Lundstrom

St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a thirteen-count indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, to commit securities fraud, and to falsify bank entries; wire fraud affecting a financial institution; securities fraud; and falsifying bank entries charge.



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United States of America v. Marilyn J. Mosby

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with perjury and making false statements on loan applications.

A federal grand jury indicted Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, on federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications, relating to the purchases of two vacation homes in Florida.

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United States of America v. Christopher Licata

Miami, Florida criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with with defrauding Medicare.

A Florida man pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to a $6.9 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare by paying kickbacks and bribes to obtain doctors’ orders for medically unnecessary lab tests that were then billed to Medicare. The defendant exploited the COVID-19 pandemic

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Keith Byron Baranski v. United States of America

St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to import machine guns.




Baranski completed serving his prison sentence and three years of supervised
release in August 2009. In 2011, he filed a Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis,
asserting violations of his constitutional rig

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United States of America v. Gladys Rossi

Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with for tax evasion.

Gladys Rossi, sole owner and operator of the now defunct R.I.J. Inc., the former owner of a Providence-based business that affixed price tags to jewelry for other companies ws charged for failing to report more than $1.2 million in business revenue.

According to charging documen

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Sarah Palin v. The New York Times Company

New York, New York personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a defamation theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of the publication by Defendant of information about her that was false.



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United States of America v. U.C. San Diego Health

San Diego, California fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act t by ordering medically unnecessary genetic testing reimbursed by Medicare.

UC San Diego Health agreed to pay $2.98 Million to Resolve Allegations of Ordering Unnecessary Genetic Testing

The settlement resolves allegations that, from December 2015 to October 2019

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United States of America v. Thomas Owens Child Sexual Predator

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with distribution and possession of child pornography charges.



I. Background
A. The BitTorrent Network and Torrential Downpour
Receptor
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing network that is
used to distribute large amounts of data over the Interne

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United States of America v. Michael Dexter Little

Orlando, Florida criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Michael Dexter Little was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.

Little had pleaded guilty on October 20, 2021.

According to court documents, from 2019 to 2021, Little filed a series o

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United States of America v. Fessum Ogbazion

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiring with others to commit fraud in connection with the operation of a national tax return preparation company he owned and managed, as well as tax crimes.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Fessum Ogbazion, of Cincinnati, collected millions of dollars in fees while fraudulently

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United States of America v. Michael Perryman

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm while a convicted felon charges.




In Spring 2018, as part of a large antidrug operation, the
Drug Enforcement

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United States of America v. Janhoi Cole

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine (Count 1) and heroin (Count 2) charges.



I.

A magistrate judge held a hearing on Cole’s motion to
suppress. Evidence at the hearing included the trooper’s police report an

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United States of America v. Xavier Elizondo and David Salgado

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy and theft charges.



A. Factual Background



The criminal scheme. Elizondo and Salgado were Chicago
Police Department (“CPD”) officers assigned to the 10th
district team that worked gang and narcotics

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United States of America v. Fanice Reed, a/k/a Fanice Jones

Denver, Colorado criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with theft of government property.

Fanice Reed, aka Fanice Jones, 45, formerly of Humble, Texas, was indicted for theft of government property. Reed

According to court documents, from February 2019 through March 2020, Reed used counterfeit checks at post offices in Colorado and Texas to obtain large quanti

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United States of America v. Sultan Issa

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with embezzling tens of millions of dollars charge. He now appeals his sentence, claiming that the district court violated his due process rights by erroneously admitting and relying upon sentencing submissions from victims of his crimes.




Sultan Issa engaged in a

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United States of America v. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, former director at Chabad of Poway, was sentenced in federal court today to fourteen months in custody for his years-long, multi-million-dollar schemes to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, several San Diego Fortune 500 companie

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United States of America v. Brent Edington

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to “knowingly make[] a false statement or report . . . for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the” Farm Services Agency.



In 2019, the government filed a felony information charging Edington with conspiring to
violat

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United States of America v. Patrick Robert McKee, a/k/a William Patrick O’Hara

Bismarck, North Dakota criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with Social Security False Statements, False Statements, Health Care Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft.

Patrick Robert McKee, a/k/a William Patrick O’Hara, Age 77 from Flint, MI, was charged with Social Security False Statements, False Statements, Health Care Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft.

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United States of America v. Matthew C. McPherson

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with fraud.
An Olathe, Kansas, man who conspired with others to control construction businesses that received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government contracts, was sentenced in federal court today for defrauding the government with respect to contracts set aside for service-disabled veterans and certif

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United States of America v. Daniel Gissantaner

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a firearm as a felon charge.



Daniel Gissantaner became embroiled in an argument with his neighbors. One neighbor
called 911, telling the dispatcher that Gissantaner, a convicted felon, had a gun. The police
responded to the call and foun

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