False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. James Davis

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant convicted of honest services wire fraud and conspiracy.



Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. (“Reach”), an advertising
company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. (“RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business.
Since 1989, Reach publi

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MARCIA MELENDEZ, et al v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al.

New York, NY - Constitutional law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued the City and various named City officials seeking a judgment declaring the challenged laws unconstitutional and for an injunction permanently enjoining their enforcement.



In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments at all
levels—federal

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United States of America v. Rico Freeman

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with one count of conspiring to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and 280 or more grams of cocaine base.



Defendant-Appellant Rico Freeman appeals from a judgment of conviction
entered in the United States District Court for the Western D

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State of Oklahoma v. Justin Elias Cathey, Defendant, and Richard Eugene German, Defendant and Raven Jo Porter, Defendant

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, in violation of 21 O.S. 440 A, which provide:
A. Any person who shall knowingly feed, lodge, clothe, arm, equip in whole or in part, harbor, aid, assist or conceal in any manner any person guilty of any felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice, or any person seeking to escape a

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State of Oklahoma v. Justin Elias Cathey, Richard Eugene German and Raven Jo Porter

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, in violation of 21 O.S. 440 A, which provide:
A. Any person who shall knowingly feed, lodge, clothe, arm, equip in whole or in part, harbor, aid, assist or conceal in any manner any person guilty of any felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice, or any person seeking to escape a

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United States of America ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM et al.

New York, NY - False Claims lawyer represented defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act ("FCA").



26 This action involves a billion-dollar defense contract entered into between
27 AECOM (a publicly held corporation), AECOM Government Services, Inc., AC
28 FIRST, LLC, and AECOM/GSS Ltd. (collectively,

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United States of America v. Steve S. Jabar aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel, and Deborah Bowers

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.



The United States appeals from a post-verdict judgment of
acquittal entered by the District Court for the Western District of New
York (Lawrence J. Vilardo, J.) with respect to the convict

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State of Oklahoma v. Boceanu, Maria

Claremore, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
MAKE/ SELL/ POSSESS/ DISPLAY FALSE INDENTIFICATION CARD, in violation of 21 O.S. 1550.41,
which provide:

A. As used in this section and Section 1550.42 of this title, "identification document", "identification card", or "identification certificate" means any printed form which contains:

1. Th

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State of Oklahoma v. Shelia Rena Maupin and Lavel Devoe Hammons

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants charged MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP TO A PAWNBROKER, in violation of 59 O.S. 1512(C)(2), which provides:

A. Rule Making Power. The Administrator shall have the same authority to adopt, amend and repeal rules as is conferred upon him by paragraph (e) of subsection (1), and subsections (2) and (3) of Section

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United States of America v. Gary Green

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with his role in a health care fraud scheme involving fraudulent prescriptions for pain creams and regulatory violations relating to the storage of controlled substances.

Between November 2015 and December 2018, Gary Green, 46, executed a scheme to obtain money from health care benefit programs by fraudulently bil

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United States of America v. Gonzalo Ramon Rodriguez

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense attorney represented Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns.

Gonzalo Ramon Rodriguez, age 59, of Grand Rapids, Michigan admitted to improperly using the electronic filing credentials of two other providers, selecting the wrong filing status for his taxpayer clients, reporting business expe

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United States of America v. Moustafa Aboshady

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
healthcare fraud conspiracy charge.



In March 2014, Fathalla Mashali, Aboshady's uncle, was
indicted and, in 2017, he pleaded guilty in the United States
District Court for the District of Massachusetts to a multimillion-dollar healthcare fr

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State of Oklahoma v. Eric Wade Brown

Guthrie, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, AFCF, in violation of 21 O.S. 421, which provides:

A. If two or more persons conspire, either:

1. To commit any crime; or

2. Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any crime; or

3. False

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Stephen Bishop, ex rel United States of America v. Level 3 Communications, Inc.

Alexandria, Virginia qui tam whistle blower lawyer represent Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a False Claims Act violation theory under 31 U.S.C. 3729, which provides:

(a) Liability for Certain Acts.—
(1) In general.—Subject to paragraph (2), any person who—
(A) knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment or approval;
(B) knowi

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United States of America v. Bruce H. Matson

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with obstructing an official proceeding in connection with his attempts to thwart an investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee.

Bruce H. Matson, 64, misled the U.S. Trustee’s Office in 2019 when he made false statements in response to allegations that he misappropriated funds as a court-

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United States of America v. Randall D. Johnson, Steven Mullins, Ajay Johnson and Patrick Payne

Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to obtain pandemic unemployment benefits and committing mail fraud and other offenses.

“The nearly $500,000 in funds stolen by this conspiracy could have gone to Virginians in critical need of support during a pandemic, but instead went into the hands of those undeserving,” United States Attorney

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United States of America, e4x rel Banigan & Templin v. PHARMERICA, INC.

Boston, MA - False Claims Act lawyer represented defendant charged with defending PharMerica, Inc of defrauded the government claim.



"The FCA prohibits the knowing submission of false or
fraudulent claims to the United States." United States ex rel.
Poteet v. Bahler Med., Inc., 619 F.3d 104, 107 (1st Cir. 2010)

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United States of America, ex rel. Leanne Malone, et al. v. Carrefour Associates LLC; et al.

Cincinnati, Ohio civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims ACt by submitting claims to Medicare for non-covered hospice services.

Hospice care is special, end-of-life care intended to comfort terminally ill patients. Patients admitted to hospice care generally stop receiving coverage for traditional medical care designed to cure their terminal co

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State of Oklahoma v. Timothy James Tucker, II

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with false pretense over $1000 or con game in violation of 21` O.S. 1541.2.

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United States of America v. Anthony Colón-Maldonado

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aggravated domestic abuse.



In early 2017, Anthony ColónMaldonado completed his sentence for federal drug crimes and began
his six-year term of supervised release. Just six months later,
a police complaint charged him on "information and belief" w

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United States of America v. Caesar DiCrecchio

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of aggravated identity theft, and four counts of tax evasion, all of which allegedly caused more than $7.8 million in losses to the wholesale produce business in South Philadelphia.

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United States of America v. Loren Kim Jacobson

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with lying to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and for making an illegal repair to a cargo tanker in violation of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. The crimes came to light through the investigation of an explosion.

On May 20, Loren Kim Jacobson, 65, of Pocatello, an owner of a tanker tes

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State of New Jersey v. Kate McClure, Mark D'Amico and Johnny Bobbitt

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with GoFundMe fraud.

Mark D’Amico, 42, formerly of Bordentown, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman to Count One of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

On March 6, 2019, two conspirators – Katelyn McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. – pleaded gu

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United States of America v. Bryan Larson

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography.



On June 11, 2015, a magistrate judge issued a warrant to
search a residence at 11 Manchaug Street, in Douglas,
Massachusetts. The warrant was based on an affidavit sworn by
Homeland Security Investigat

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United States of America v. Alfredo Gonzalez

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug-trafficking.



We start by rehearsing the travel of the case. On
October 5, 2016, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of
New Hampshire indicted the appellant, along with fifteen codefendants, on a charge of conspiracy to distr

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