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United States of America v. Jasiel F. Correia, II

Boston, MA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud and to extort money from marijuana vendors.

Jasiel F. Correia II, the former Mayor of Fall River, Mass., was charged for his involvement in a scheme to defraud investors and extorting and conspiring to extort marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In October 2018, Correia

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United States of America v. Kathryn Pocock

New Haven, CT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax evasion.

Since 1991, Kathryn Pocock, agte 58, has operated Sunshine Cleaners, LLC, a home cleaning business. Between 2015 and 2019, Pocock withdrew approximately $855,000 from the business and failed to report those proceeds on the relevant tax forms for the business and on her federal income tax returns. The

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United States of America v. Henrry Adrian Milla Campuzano

Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and extortion.

Henrry Adrian Milla Campuzano, 37, from Lima, Peru, was charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud and wire fraud through two Peruvian call centers that he owned and operated. The defendant, along with his co-conspirators, used false statements and threats to

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United States of America v. Larry Black, Jr.

Birmingham, AL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud his former employer Chick-fil-A.

Larry James Black, Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former Director of Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Five Points, charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Black’s co-defendant, Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former manager at the same

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United States of America v. Dayakar Moparty; Harcharan Singh Narang

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and money laundering charges.



This direct criminal appeal stems from various federal health care
fraud convictions. On May 17, 2017, a grand jury indicted Narang,
Dr. Gurnaib Singh Si

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United States of America v. Rodolfo Rudy Delgado

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery; federal program bribery; use of a facility in interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise charges.



For over 16 years and up until the time of his arrest, Delgado served
as a state judge in t

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United States of America v. Yusuf Adebowale Masha

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with eight charges of false use of a passport, and eight charges of misuse of a passport.



At trial, John Weber testified that he was president and owner of
Software Toolbox, Inc., a software manufacturing company located in
United States Court of A

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United States of America v. Sylvia Diaz

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiring to acquire a firearm rom a licensed firearms dealer by false or fictitious statement charge.



Diaz and her husband, Jose Diaz (“Jose”), served as illegal straw-purchasers in a weapons-trafficking arrangement. They purchased firearms

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United States of America v. Meoshi Shonta Nelson

Mobile, AL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with lying to Social Security Administration (SSA) to get the benefits of vulnerable persons whom she overcharged for room and board in her group boarding homes in Mobile.

According to court documents and testimony at her sentencing hearing, Meoshi Shonta Nelson, 46, also known as Meoshi Williams, was previously convicted

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United States of America v. Maurice Fayne

Atlanta, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy and wire fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, and for bank fraud, and making false statements to a financial institution related a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application.

Maurice Fayne planned to use the PPP program as a cover for his long-running Ponzi scheme. The funds the program supp

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United States of America v. Jonathon Edward Warren; Antonio Enrique Martinez

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple federal
charges for their roles in a telemarketing timeshare-exit scam that bilked millions from owners.



This case involves the “heat pitch,” a high-pressure scheme to
defraud those hoping to extricate themselves. Telemarketers fro

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United States of America v. Jonathon Nora

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with three crimes: conspiracy to commit health care fraud; conspiracy to pay or receive illegal health care kickbacks; and aiding and abetting health care fraud charges.



While Nora is the sole appellant in this case, he was not alone at trial.
Nora was

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United States of America v. Kristen Canapary

Sacramento, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statements in an application for FEMA benefits in connection with the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire.

Kristen Canapary, age 53, of Butte County was indicted for making false statements on a FEMA disaster benefits application.

FEMA provided disaster benefits to certain qualified individuals whose pr

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United States of America v. Jabari Laquan Marshall

Las Vegas, NV: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS as part of a fraudulent refund scheme.

Jabari Laquan Marshall, who was serving a federal prison sentence for a prior mortgage fraud conviction, and his brother Jalen Tony Henry devised a scheme to defraud the IRS. As part of the scheme, Marshall provided Henry with false documents and d

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United States of America v. Richard Hajjar

Boston, Massachusetts wire fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Richard Hajjar, age 71. who was accused for embezzling millions from Alden Shoe Company to finance an ill-fated television talk show for Bianca de la Garza, a Boston TV personality. Hajjar was also charged with unlawful monetary transactions and filing a false tax return.

The Government claimed that Haj

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United States of America v. Michael Arrington

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to do the same, and traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to facilitate unlawful activity charges.



Arrington has a long criminal history, including
multiple drug

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United States of America v. Andrew J. Fischer

Council Bluffs, Iowa false statements in connection with Federal Crop Insurance charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Andrew J. Fisher, age 55.

Fischer obtained crop insurance for the crop years 2012, 2014, and 2017 through the United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency’s Federal Crop Insurance Program. Fisher then submitted fraudulent insurance claim

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United States of America v. DARREN GOODRICH

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to commit securities fraud charge.



I. Factual Background
In November 2015, Goodrich was indicted along with several co-defendants for
his involvement in a “pump and dump” market manipulation scheme.1 The operative
Super

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United States of America v. ONIEL MCKENZIE, AKA DARRIN CLARK, AKA SHOWER

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a knowingly and intentionally possessing with intent to distribute controlled substances charge.



I. Facts1

On April 30, 2014, a federal grand jury indicted Oniel McKenzie on one
count of possessing with an intent to distribute five or

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United States of America v. JOSEPH PERCOCO, STEVEN AIELLO, JOSEPH GERARDI, LOUIS CIMINELLI, ALAIN KALOYEROS, AKA DR. K and PETER GALBRAITH KELLY, JR., MICHAEL LAIPPLE, KEVIN SCHULER

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to engage in wire fraud by engaging in a scheme to rig the bidding processes for New York State-funded projects charges.



I. The Facts3
A. The Buffalo Billion Initiative
In 2012, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo launched an initiative to

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United States of America v. James Waylon Howell

Knoxville, TN: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

James Waylon Howell, 39, currently of Knoxville, Tennessee, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

As part of the written plea agreement, Howell waived an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury and agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire

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United States of America v. Tyrone Floyd Berry and Aaron James Hill

Nashville, TN: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud two hospital management companies.

Tyrone Floyd Berry, 46, of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and Aaron James Hill, 43, of Fairview, Tennessee, were charged with to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and two counts of wire fraud.

Hill worked as a human resource coordinator at Co

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United States of America v. Keith D. O'Kelly

Columbus, OH: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

In January 2020, while on pretrial release, O’Kelly applied for employment at another bank and once again falsely represented a Social Security number as his own.

Once employed at the banks, O’Kelly accessed and obtained the banking information of multiple customers to initiate unauthorized p

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Innovative Solutions Consulting. LLC v. Dr. Ashish Pal

Tampa, FL: False Claims Act lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant charging violating the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary ablations and vein stent procedures.

From Jan. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31, 2019, Dr. Pal knowingly submitted false claims to federal health care programs for medically unnecessary ablations and vein stent procedures. The government alleged that

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United States of America v. DOUGLAS F. GREER, M.D. AND DOUGLAS F. GREER, M.D., P.C., DOING BUSINESS AS DOWNTOWN OPHTHALMOLOGY CENTER

Washington, DC - Medical Malpractice lawyer represented defendant with performing needless medical procedures on his patients and asking Medicare to foot the bill charges.



Dr. Douglas Greer defrauded the government out of more
than $1 million. As early as 1999, Greer, an ophthalmologist,
performed needless medi

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