False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Rickey S. Carter

Valdosta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant a Southwest Georgia businessman and owner of a tractor supply company pleaded guilty to orchestrating a complicated fraud involving millions of dollars of loans by multiple creditors.

Rickey Carter, 60, of Nashville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count bank fraud on Tuesday, June 8, before U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson. Ca

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United States of America v. Anthony Dwayne King

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charge with money laundering.

Anthony Dwayne King was sentenced for laundering over $247,000, generated from business email compromise (BEC) schemes committed against Minnesota and Oregon homebuyers, a Delaware law firm, and a New Jersey company.

“King and his conspirators opened bank accounts, using fictitious iden

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United States of America v. Sergio Antonio Hood

Tampa, Florida felony possession of guns and ammunition charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Sergio Antonio Hood (36, Tampa) who was charged with possession of ammunition as a convicted felon, obstruction of justice, and attempted witness tampering.

Hood had been indicted on December 10, 2020. He has multiple prior convictions, including two federal convictions for poss

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State of Oklahoma v. Shafer, Terry Curtis

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


Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, MAKE/SELL/POSSES/DISPLAY FALSE IDENTIFICATION CARD, in violation of 21 O.S. 1550.41
Date of Offense: 02/08/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Shafer, Terry Curtis Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/04/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: MAKE/SELL/POSSES/DISP

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State of Oklahoma v. Shafer, Terry Curtis

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, obtaining cash or merchandise by bogus check/false pretenses, in violation of 21 O.S. 1541.1
Date of Offense: 01/28/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Shafer, Terry Curtis Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/04/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: obtaining cash or

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State of Oklahoma v. Shafer, Terry Curtis

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


Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, obtaining refund by false information, in violation of 21 O.S. 1541.6
Date of Offense: 12/14/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
Shafer, Terry Curtis Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/04/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: obtaining refund by false informati

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State of Oklahoma v. Smith, Hulon Wadale lll

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OWN, FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP, in violation of 59 O.S. 1512(C)(2)
Date of Offense: 03/30/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
Smith, Hulon Wadale lll Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/02/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP(OWN)
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STATE OF OHIO -vs- ALAN SCHUBERT

Canton, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Alan Schubert with aggravated vehicular homicide and six counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor charges.



{¶2} On June 20, 2018, Appellant was operating a Jeep Grand Cherokee in the
southbound lane of State Route 37 in Licking County at about 65-69 miles per hou

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United States of America v. Robert William Mitchell

Cheyenne, Wyoming mail fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Robert William Mitchell, a/k/a Bob Mitchell.

Defendant, age 52, of Centennial, Colorado entered guilty pleas to an indictment charging two separate-but-related investor frauds.

First, Mitchell pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors in a Wyoming natural gas pro

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STATE OF OHIO -vs- DAVID A. KOON

Canton, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented David A. Koon with illegal cultivation of marijuana; possession of marijuana; trafficking in marijuana and having weapons under a disability charges.



Appellant, David A. Koon was charged in 2017, entered a guilty plea in 2018
and was sentenced on April 27, 2018. He filed

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STATE OF OHIO -vs- JOSHUA SLYE

Canton, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Joshua Slye with one count of robbery, one count of theft (less than $1,000.00), one count of possession of criminal tools, and one count of aggravated robbery charges.




On March 5, 2020, a customer later identified as appellant entered a Cricket
Wireless store. An em

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STATE OF OHIO -vs- TIMOTHY M. BLUE

Canton, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Timothy M. Blue with one count of gross sexual imposition; one count of rape; one count of sexual battery; one count of pandering obscenity involving a minor, one count of pandering obscenity involving a minor; one count of pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor charges.

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United States of America v. Hildres Kinkesha Parker-Green

New Bern, North Carolina filing false tax returns charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Hildres Kinkesha Parker-Green.

From at least January 2016 through March 2016, Defendant managed a tax return preparation business in Kinston. Parker-Greene conspired with another return preparer to fraudulently inflate clients’ tax refunds by claiming false wages, federal income tax w

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Salina Savage, er al. United States of America v. CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company

Spokane, WA: CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC), a prime contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, has agreed to pay $3,038,270 million to resolve allegations that CHPRC violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and fraudulent small business subcontract reports.

In 2008, CHPRC, a Washington subsidiary of CH2M Hill Companies Ltd., which is headquartered in

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United States of America v. John Badea and Radu Gal

Las Vegas, Nevada identity theft charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants, John Badea, age 69, and Radu Gal, age 66, who were charged with assuming others’ identities to steal nearly $185,800 from the Nevada State Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Fund.

From February 2011 to August 2014, John Badea, 69, and co-defendant Radu Gal, 66, both of Las Vegas, repeatedly stole mone

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State of Idaho v. Brian Leigh Dripps, Sr.

Idaho Falls, Idaho first-degree murder charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brian Leigh Dripps, Sr., age 55, who was charged with killing and raping an 18-year-old woman in 1996, a crime for which another man was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 20 years.

The mother of Angie Dodge sought to have investigators take another look at the evidence, including DNA, evid

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United States of America v. Sergei Denko

Brooklyn, New York failure to collect and pay over taxes charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Sergei Denko, of Queens, New York, who owned and operated Denko Mechanical Inc. and Independent Mechanical Inc., both contracting businesses in Queens that specialized in plumbing.

From 2010 through 2014, Denko cashed more than $5 million in checks made out to companies he owned

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United States of America v. Contech Engineered Solutions, LLC

Raleigh, North Carolina engineering firm was sentenced today after pleading guilty to long lasting conspiracies to rig bids and defraud the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).

According to court documents, Contech Engineered Solutions LLC (Contech) pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Sherman Act and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, as charged in a six-cou

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United States of America v. Benjamin Boway

Fargo, North Dakota preparation of false tax returns charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Benjamin Boway, age 43, Mapelton, ND, who was charged with Aiding in Preparation of False Tax Returns.

Between 2015 and 2018, Boway, the sole owner and operator of a tax preparation business, Bennie Tax Services, in Mapleton, ND, knowingly filed fraudulent tax returns. Boway charge

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Conrad Truman v. Orem City, et al.

Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City
police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used
against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the
murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman’s complaint, the prosecution
knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possib

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STATE OF OHIO v. MARQUAVIUS D. SHURELDS

Lima, OH - Criminal defense attorney represented Marquavius Shurelds with two counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated robbery charges.



{¶2} On December 2, 2018, around 8:15 pm, D.W. was driving her vehicle
with her infant son inside to visit her son’s father, A.W., in order to pick up some Case No. 1-20-35

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United States of America v. Michael LaPaglia, M.D.

Knoxville, Tennessee conspiracy to distribute drugs charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Michael LaPaglia, 49, who was conspiracy to distribute drug distribution.

LaPaglia, a medical doctor, who previously lost his authorization to write prescriptions for controlled substances, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of conspiring to distribute cont

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STATE OF OHIO v. JAMES A. GIDEON

Lima, OH - Criminal defense attorney represented James. A. Gideon with a sexual imposition charge.




In that appeal, this court vacated Gideon’s sexual-imposition convictions and remanded the cases for a new
trial after we concluded that the trial court should have granted Gideon’s motions to
suppress evidence

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United States of America v. Christopher Matthew Meredith

Austin, Texas securities fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Christopher Matthew Meredith, age 45, of Shawnee, Kansas was charged for his scheme to defraud investors of more than $6.8 million.


“This con artist targeted dozens of retirees and other investors who resided in the Brenham area as well as other parts of Texas and the country. He obtained millions

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United States of America v. Cloudgen, L.L.C.

Houston, Texas conspiracy to commit H-1B visa fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cloudgen, L.L.C.

Cloudgen LLC is a consulting and strategic solutions company located on South Dairy Ashford Road in Houston. Through its corporate representative, Cloudgen pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit visa fraud from on or about March 2013 to December 2020. During the plea, the co

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