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United States of America v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally obtaining a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the world’s oldest works of literature.

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and entered the United States contrary to federal law. An interna

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL COSCIA MICHAEL COSCIA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with six counts of commodities fraud and six counts of spoofing charges.



Mr. Coscia’s Trading Activity
Michael Coscia was the principal of a futures trading
firm, Panther Trading LLC. He traded commodity futures
contracts on electronic exchanges operate

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Robert I. Greenberg v. Laurance B. Wolfberg and Carolyn Wolfberg

¶1 The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [certifying court] certified the following questions pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1991 ' ' 1601 et seq.:

1. In light of the facts as detailed below that the Defendants Laurance B. Wolfberg and Carolyn Wolfberg either individually or combined instituted four separate lawsuits and filed on

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United States of America v. Devell Lincoln

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit theft of public money, theft of public money and aggravated identity theft.

From 2011 to 2013, Devell Lincoln, 55, conspired with Stephanie Twyman and others to cash tax refund checks fraudulently obtained by filing false federal income tax returns in the names of other individuals with the

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United States of America v. Howard L. Young

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a Ponzi scheme.

Howard L. Young, 75, the founder of a Nashville-based holistic wellness business was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Young was charged in a criminal Information in October 2020 with four counts of bank fraud; six counts of wire fraud; and ag

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TRACY CONLEY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Milwaukee, WI - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant or his participation in a “fake stash house” sting charge.



Our opinion affirming Conley’s convictions on direct ap‐
peal sets out the facts of his case. United States v. Conley, 875
F.3d 391 (7th Cir. 2017). Here we focus on the facts relevant to

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United States of America v. Marvette Thompson Easterling, Keylon Wright, and Joshua David Armato

Greenville, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Marvette Thompson Easterling, 54, of Gaffney; Keylon Wright, 40, of Simpsonville; and Joshua David Armato, 37, of Georgia; admitted that they knowingly defrauded a program established to help homeowners at risk of mortgage loan

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United States of America v. John Paul Cook

Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) by receiving nearly $1 million in veteran benefits based on fraudulent claims of service-connected disabilities.

According to the criminal indictment, filed plea documents and admissions made in court, John Paul Cook, age 57, enlisted in the Un

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United States of America v. Kashon Stacy Cunningham

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Kashon Stacy Cunningham, a Clayton, NC resident, was chargeed of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g).

On May 22, 2020 in Smithfield, the Smithfield Police Department,

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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 a 2019 investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee.

According to court documents, Bruce H. Matson, 64, misled the U.S. Trustee’s Office in 2019 when he made false statements in response to allegations that he

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United States of America v. Charles D. Holley, a/k/a Charlei Diwan Holley

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax fraud.

Charles D. Holley, aka Charlei Diwan Holley, owned and operated a data brokerage business. As part of this business, Holley purchased data information from state motor vehicle agencies, which she re-sold to various buyers. Holley set up bank accounts in which to deposit the proceeds of her busines

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United States ex rel. Pennetti v. Interface Rehab, et al.

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary.

During the relevant time period, Medicare reimbursed skilled nursing facilities at a daily rate that reflected the skilled therapy and nursing needs of qua

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United States of America v. Audrey Renetta Odem

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit tax fraud and Aid in Preparing and Presenting False Tax Returns.

From 2012 through 2016, Audrey Renetta Odom, of Durham, conspired with Karen Jones and Andrea Pasley t prepare false returns for clients. The returns fraudulently lowered the clients’ tax liabilities or inflated their

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United States of America v. John Barry, Jr.

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.

John Barry Jr., of Pemberton, and his co-conspirators falsely represented to clients that they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by obtaining tax refunds. To carry out the scheme, Barry and his co-conspirators filed forms with the IRS that fraudulently cla

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United States of America v. Brian Jeffrey Raymond

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual abuse and admitted to the abusive sexual contact of numerous women, as well as photographing and recording dozens of nude and partially nude women without their consent during his career as a U.S. government employee.

Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, of La Mesa, was most recently employed by the U.S. government at

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United States of America v. Shelvon Tyrone Williams

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring with others to collect firearms and exchange them for marijuana to sell on the black market.

Shelvon Tyrone Williams, 27, pleaded guilty to firearms conspiracy.

In his plea agreement, Williams admitted that from November 2018 to March 2020, he collected and transported firearms from Oklahoma t

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United States of America v. Christine F. Anderson

Charlotesville, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail and wire fraud scheme in which she stole at least $1.5 million from victims while purporting to have terminal cancer, vast wealth, and connections to celebrities.

Christine F. Anderson, 51, of Reva, Va., owned and operated the publishing companies known as Christine F. Anderson Publishing and Media (C

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United States of America v. Travis Kilgore

Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently making application for pandemic employment benefits.

Travis Kilgore, 34, defrauded the government of more than $182,474 in pandemic unemployment benefits beginning in May 2020. Kilgore was also ordered to pay $164,470 in restitution. The government previously recouped $18,004.

“When Kilg

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United States of America v. Yi-Chi Shih

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally exporting integrated circuits with military applications to China the required filing of electronic export information.

Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was convicted on July 2, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export

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United States of America v. Alexander S. Rowland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.

Alexander S. Rowland, 30, formerly of Penns Grove, NJ, was sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $2.1 million restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Karen Spencer Marston, for d

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United States of America v. Jim C. Beck

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, frauds and swindles, engaging in wrongful monetary transactions and making false statements.

Defendant, the suspended insurance commissioner of Georgia, was accused of being a fraudster who orchestrated a

a scheme to channel millions from the Georgia Underwriting Association through a serie

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United States of America v. Miller Octavio Upegui-Sossa

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2), which provides: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—

(1) falsifies,

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MURRAY ROJAS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with causing prescription animal drugs to become misbranded charge.



We write solely for the parties and so recite only the facts necessary to our
disposition. Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse racing regulations include the following
rule: “A person acti

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CARLOS MALDONADO a/k/a BORI

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and conspiracy to commit money laundering charge.



Pursuant to a plea agreement, Maldonado pled guilty to a felo

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES DAVIS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charge.



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 publis

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