False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. LAURA G. MARTINEZ

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges .



We draw the facts from the undisputed portions of the
presentence-investigation report ("PSR"), the plea colloquy, and
the transcript of the sentencing hearing. See, e.g., United States
v. Rivera-Go

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United States of America v. Corey Roshel Powell

Baton Rouge, LA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud.

Corey Roshel Powell, age 43, of Delhi, Louisiana, was charged engaging in a scheme to defraud the USDA’s summer food service program.

Powell owned and operated The NELLA Foundation (NELLA), a non-profit organization domiciled in Darrow, Louisiana, which served as a sponsor for the SFSP. Over t

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United States of America v. Dr. Llewelyn Simon

Shreveport, LA: False Claims Act violation lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a qui tam theory.

Dr. Llewelyn Simon, an internal medicine physician from Monroe, Louisiana, agreed to pay the United States $640,000 to resolve allegations that he accepted payments for referrals of home health patients.

Dr. Simon served as a medical director for the now defunct Unite

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United States of America v. SHARON P. CARTER United States of America v. GREGORY CONIGLIARO

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with counts that pertained to their roles in connection with other aspects of NECC's operations charges. After patients across the country became
seriously ill or died in the fall of 2012 after having been injected with a contaminated medication traced to the New England Compounding Center ("NE

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United States of America v. PAUL M. WEADICK United States of America v. FRANCIS P. SALEMME

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with a murder charge.



In 1992, DiSarro bought a closed nightclub in Boston
with funds he received from Frank Jr. Because DiSarro was under
investigation at the time, the papers listed DiSarro's stepbrother
as the owner. Frank Jr. was kept on the bo

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United States of America v. RICARDO RIVERA-ORTIZ

Boston, MA - Workman's Compensation lawyer represented defendant with making false statements on the relevant government forms, theft of government property, and failing to disclose an event that affected his right to Social Security payments charges.



The following facts come from the testimony and exhibits
presente

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United States of America v. INYEMAR MANUEL SUAZO

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a motion to dismiss his federal New Hampshire prosecution on double jeopardy grounds. He was charged with conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, 400 grams or more of fentanyl and cocaine



On March 2, 2018, Suazo, along with Julio

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MARGARET BENSON v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, L.P.

Boston, MA - Disability Discrimination lawyer represented
Appellant-Plaintiff with disability discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act and for retaliation under the Maine Whistleblower Protection Act and the Maine Human Rights Act charge.



We review the district court's grant of summary judgment
in favor

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United States of America v. Kevin B. Marsh

Columbia, SC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

Kevin B. Marsh, 66, former SCANA Corporation (SCANA) Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, charged with engaging in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

Marsh intentionally defrauded ratepayers while overseeing and managing SCANA’s

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United States of America v. Richard Allen Clark

Charlotte, NC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement.

Richard Allen Clark, 55, of Lenoir, N.C., was indicted for embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer.

According to filed court documents and statements made in court, from 2013 to 2019, Clark was employed as an office manager for two family-owned businesses in Lenoir, and was re

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United States of America v. Javier Estepa, et al.

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge.



Javier1 owns Aaron Construction Group, Inc. (“Aaron Construction”), which
he operates with Diego. Aaron Construction’s business included contracting with
Miami-Dade County (the “County”) to

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United States of America v. Michael Brian Anderson

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with four counts of mail fraud, three counts of making false statements, and two counts of money laundering charges.



A federal grand jury indicted Defendant on four counts of mail fraud, 18
U.S.C. § 1341 (Counts 1–4), three counts of making false s

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United States of America v. TARRESSE LEONARD

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a felon-in-possession charge.



Emanuel Jackson, firearm by his side, walked toward a small crowd of
people gathered near a street corner. As Jackson closed in, Detective Paul-Noel,
onsite for an unrelated investigation, saw him raise the firea

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United States of America, ex rel. James Heron v. Aurora Loan Services, LLC, Aurora Bank FSB, Aurora Commercial Corp., Nationstar Mortgage LLC and Medved Dale Decker & Deere, LLC

Denver, CO: Civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on False Claims Act, Qui Tam, violation theories 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;
<

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United States of America v. Ramon Hiciano

Boston, MA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with false representation of a Social Security number and theft of government money.

Ramon Hiciano, 64, a Dominican national previously residing in Roxbury, was indicted false representation of social security number, aiding and abetting in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B);18 U.S.C. § 2.

Hiciano used the i

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United States of America v. Alexander Gormatov

Portland, ME: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with visa fraud.

Alexander Gormatov, 33, a Russian national, entered the U.S. on a student/work visa in 2009, and later successfully adjusted his status to that of an academic student visa by attending Southern Maine Community College in 2010. In 2011, he met a 17-year-old female U.S. citizen through a Craigslist employme

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United States of America v. EDDIE LEE PERRY, CHAD RAGIN

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and in excess of 280 grams of cocaine base charges.



In early 2013, Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement
agencies in southwest Georgia and M

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SAMANTHA SMITH, individually, ANN HERRERA, the Court Appointed Personal Administrator as administrator of the estate of Robert Steven Smith, MICAH SMITH, the Court Appointed Personal Administrator as administrator of the estate of Sydney Smith, MICAH SMITH, individually v. United States of America

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented Plaintiffs-Appellants with suing the United States over deaths of family members.



Just a few days after Thanksgiving in 2016, Steve Smith was driving with
his 21-year-old daughter Sydney while under the influence of alcohol. Shortly
after midnight, their ca

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United States of America v. Damian O. Barrett

Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax fraud.

Damian O. Barrett, 40, was indicted for perpetrating a multi-year fraud scheme wherein he filed 745 false tax returns in 19 different states.

“With tax filing season right around the corner, it is important that all Americans who choose to hire a tax preparation professional take the necessary p

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United States of America v. JIMMY C. CHISUM

Denver, CO - Tax Evasion lawyer represented defendant with indictment for aiding and abetting the willful attempt to evade income taxes owed charges.



In April 2005 Mr. Chisum, a self-styled business and estate planner, was
indicted for aiding and abetting the willful attempt to evade income taxes owed
by Brian an

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United States of America v. Edward Yasushiro Arao

Los Angeles, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with scheming to purchase “off-roster” firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit.

Edward Yasushiro Arao, 51, of Eastvale, was charge with conspiracy to engage in the business of dealing firearms without a license and a substantive count of engaging in an unl

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United States of America v. Kang Juntao

Newark, NJ: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with money laundering.

Kang Juntao, 25, of Hangzhou City, China, had previously pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Camden, New Jersey, to financing a nationwide ring of individuals who smuggled at least 1,500 protected turtles, valued at more than $2,250,000, from the United States to Hong Kong. The court also ordered

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State of Oklahoma v. James Charles Boone, Jr.

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:


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: 12/24/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
BOONE, JAMES CHARLES JR Disposed: DEFERRED, 09/30/2021. Nolo Contendere Plea
Count as Disposed: FALSE DECLARATIO

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United States of America v. John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz

Boston, MA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud, bribery and money laundering for wrongfully trying to get their children into the University of Southern California.

John Wilson, 62, of Lynnfield, Mass., and Gamal Abdelaziz, 64, of Las Vegas, Nev., were convicted of one count of conspi

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United States of America v. Vonnie McDaniels

Lexington, KY: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Vonnie McDaniels, 32, of Lexington, Kentucky, obtained a $382,500 commercial loan from Kentucky Bank in August 2019 under false pretenses, and used the loan proceeds to purchase an office building in Frankfort, Kentucky that was being leased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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