Birmingham, AL: NaphCare Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, has agreed to pay $694,593 to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in connection with health care services provided to BOP inmates.

“Companies that do business with the government have an obligation to ensure tha

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false tax returns.

Graciela Rueda Alvarez, a/k/a “Graciela Masso,” owned and operated two Las Vegas businesses: All Hose Inc. (AHI) and All Hose South LLC (AHS), which are distributors of industrial, hydraulic, and pneumatic hoses, connectors and fluid transfer systems. From 2013 to 2016, Rueda Alvarez

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FORG, FORGERY IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1561-1628
Date of Offense: 08/11/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
WILDER, DERRICK MICHAEL Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/18/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO FORGERY IN THE SECOND DEGR

Beaumont, Texas health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

Grigoriy T. Rodonaia, 45, of Port Neches, Texas, was convicted by a jury on Nov. 17, 2020, of 12 counts of health care fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of making a false statement.

“Mr. Rodonaia’s sentence is well deserved. His criminal acts inflicted signi

Baton Rouge, Louisiana wire fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

Michael J. Kaiser, age 43, of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, was charged with wire fraud. From September 2015 through February 2017, Kaiser devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud his then-employer, Trade, and to obtain money and property from Trade by means of materially false and

Greensboro, North Carolina health care fraud claim against Dr. George Osei-Bonsu, M.D., Palladium Primary Care, P.A., and Premiere Health Care Plus, P.A., of Greensboro and High Point settled for $300,000.

“Medicare and Medicaid lay out specific coverage guidelines for diagnostic studies to ensure that taxpayer dollars are only spent on medically necessary exams,” said Acting U.S. At

Alexandria, Virginia fraud charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Robert S. Stewart, Jr., 35, who was charged with making false statements to multiple federal agencies in order to fraudulently obtain multimillion-dollar government contracts, COVID-19 emergency relief loans, and undeserved military service benefits.

“In the early stages of the global pandemic, the defenda

San Antonio, Texas biological weapons hoax charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Christopher Charles Perez, aka “Christopher Robbins,” age 40.

Jurors convicted Perez on two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038, which criminalizes false information and hoaxes related to biological weapons. Evidence presented during trial revealed that Perez posted two threatening messages on

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FE1A, ENDANGERING OTHERS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE A POLICE OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 540A (B)
Date of Offense: 03/07/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
HAGAN, JEREMMIE WAYNE Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/18/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: ENDANGERING OTH

Albany, New York misuing a social security number charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Markhwan Berning, age 37, of Saratoga Springs, New York.


Berning admitted that between May and July 2020, he obtained unemployment insurance benefits, including federal pandemic-related benefits, by falsely presenting to the New York State Department of Labor a fake social security

New York, New York making false statements to the FBI charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Meya Meyyappan who lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), NASA’s Office of Inspector General (“NASA OIG”), and the USAO.

“As a senior NASA scientist with access to sensitive and confidential U.S. government technologies and intellectual property, Meyya Me

Claremore, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OPJ, PATTERN OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES, in violation of 21 O.S. 425Q
Date of Offense: 08/13/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
Richardson, Robert Lee Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/07/2021. Dismissed by Court
Count as Disposed: PATTERN OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES(OPJ)
Viol

Claremore, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OPJ, OTHER CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE, in violation of 21 O.S. 380-592
Date of Offense: 08/13/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
Gambrell, Sarah Elizabeth Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/07/2021. Dismissed by Court
Count as Disposed: OTHER CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC J

Denver, Colorado unlawfully prescribing drugs charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Loren D. Sherwood, a former physician at Dave Sherwood Family Medicine in Ridgway, Colorado, who was charged with unlawfully prescribing controlled substances without a medical license in violation of federal law.

Dr. Sherwood’s medical license with the State of Colorado expired on April

Albuquerque, New Mexico kidnapping conspiracy charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jose Torrez, 48, of Albuquerque, who was charged with conspiracy to kidnap.

Torrez, Chase Smothermon, 32, and Mariah Ferry, 22, along with other co-conspirators took part in a scheme to retaliate against two victims who they believed stole marijuana and money from Smothermon’s home where

San Francisco, California wire fraud, bank fraud and securities fraud charges criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

Andrew Chapin was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and securities fraud. Chapin, 33, of San Francisco, started a company in Boston that he moved to San Francisco in 2016 and renamed Benja Inc. Chapin was CEO of Benja. Benja was a digital advertising company th

San Diego, California conspiracy to use force, fraud and coercion to produce adult pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Rubin Andre Garcia, age 31, the owners of the adult websites GirlsDoPorn (GDP) and GirlsDoToys (GDT) to recruit young women to appear in sex videos for adult websites using force, fraud, and coercion.

From approximately 2013 to 2017, Garcia worked as a

Enid, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OPJ, OFFERING FORGED OR FALSE INSTRUMENTS FOR RECORD, in violation of 21 O.S. 463
Date of Offense: 02/15/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
HINKER, TODD LEROY Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/07/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: OFFERING FORGED OR FALSE INSTRUMENTS FOR