False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Mehul Ramesh Khatiwala

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Mehul Khatiwala, age 37, of Voorhees, New Jersey, was charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and for three counts of bank fraud, in connection with schemes to fraudulently obtain a total of approximately $15 million in loans from Cecil Bank to purchase hotels and a multifa

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United States of America v. Robert Evans and Gina Rita Russell

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with extortion, fraud, and money laundering.

Robert Evans, 33, of New York, N.Y., was charged with participating in a $4 million extortion, fraud, and money laundering scheme with his ex-common-law wife and members of his family, including his parents.

In April 2018, a federal grand jury indicted E

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United States of America v. Wilson Asfora, M.D.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota health care fraud lawyer represented defendant charged with taking kickbacks.

Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain

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United States of America v. Vivint Smart Homes, Inc.

Salt Lake City, Utah:

Vivint Smart Home Inc. sells “smart” home security and monitoring systems, largely via a sales force that sells door-to-door. The complaint alleges that Vivint failed to implement an Identity Theft Prevention Program, allowing its sales representatives to obtain credit reports of unsuspecting consumers without the consumers’ knowledge or consent, and unfairly

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United States of America v. Jonathan York

Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with assaulting a prison inmate.

Jonathan York, a former Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) Officer at the Northwest County Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, was charged with assaulting an inmate and covering.

“The defendant was held accountable for abusing his power and for violatin

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STATE OF OHIO vs. ANTHONY ROSEMOND

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Anthony Rosemond with an ineffective assistance of counsel claim



Rosemond was convicted on multiple counts of murder, felonious
assault, having weapons while under a disability, and drug trafficking. In the direct
appeal, this court affirmed his convictions, but

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State of Oklahoma v. Nicholas Ray Miller

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LMFR, GRAND LARCENY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1705
Date of Offense: 12/14/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
MILLER, NICHOLAS RAY Disposed: CONVICTION, 04/30/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: GRAND LARCENY(LMFR)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1705
Count # 2. C

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STATE OF OHIO vs. DERRIUS A. BRONSON

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Derrius A. Bronson with failure to stop after an accident and vehicular assault charges



{¶2} Each of Bronson’s assignments of error challenge his sentences.
Under R.C. 2953.08(G)(2)(a), an appellate court may modify or vacate a defendant’s
sentence only if it

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STATE OF OHIO vs. BUDDY EUGENE STRUCKMAN

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Buddy Eugene Struckman with an denying postconviction relief.



{¶1} Defendant-petitioner-appellant Buddy Eugene Struckman appeals the
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court’s judgments overruling his Crim.R. 33 motion for
a new trial and denying his petition under R

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United States of America v. Luis Veras-Velasquez

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to steal income tax refunds.

Luis Veras-Velasquez, 37, formerly of Philadelphia, PA, was charged with aggravated identity thef.

On April 23, 2015, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment against the defendant, alleging that he engaged in a scheme to obtain tax refunds using stole

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ANTHONY MCCLAIN vs. STATE OF OHIO

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Anthony McClain with appeals the judgment of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, following a bench trial, in favor of the state of Ohio on his
statutory claim for a determination that he is a wrongfully imprisoned individual.



{¶2} In 1995, McClain was indicted for

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United States of America v. Daniel Rivera

Trenton, New Jersey criminal lawyer represented defendant who was charged with wire fraud and subscribing to a false tax return.

Daniel Rivera, 51, of Hillsborough, New Jersey, a former financial advisor, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson to a superseding information charging him with one count of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax r

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United States of America v. CareCloud Health, Inc.

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with health care fraud for paying kickbacks.



The United States alleged that CareCloud Health, Inc. f/k/a CareCloud Corporation (CareCloud), a Miami-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software products and related services, violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute through its

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STATE OF OHIO vs. DAMONTE COLE-WALKER

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense attorney represented Damonte Cole-Walker with a sexual imposition charge



{¶2} Defendant-appellant Damonte Cole-Walker was involved in a romantic
relationship with the victim, Jalin Spencer, for roughly a year before she cut ties in
July of 2019. Post-breakup communications between th

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State of Tennessee v. Stacy Ann Givens

Jackson, TN - Criminal defense attorney represented Stacy Ann Givens with filing a false police report, and misuse of 911 charges



John Wayne Chatham and Stacy Ann Givens, the Defendant, lived together in a
trailer at 270 Chatham Lane. Chatham’s mother owned the property the trailer was on and
lived in a separate resid

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State of Tennesse v. Jonathan Michael Bass

Nashville, TN - Criminal defense attorney represented Jonathan Michael Bass with asserting that the trial court erred by ordering partial consecutive sentences.



This case arises from the Defendant’s participation in thefts at Macy’s and Walmart,
fraudulently obtaining prescriptions for controlled substances from numerou

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State of Tennessee v. Jaleen Genard Allen

Knoxville, TN - Criminal defense attorney represented Jaleen Genard Allen with contending that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions.



The Defendant’s convictions relate to an August 29, 2017 shooting, in which
Michael Johnson suffered fatal gunshot wounds. At the trial, the recordings of two 9-1-1
04

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United States of America v. Justin Lee Tripp

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with stealing and selling vehicles from car dealerships.

From February 2016 to March 2016, Justin Lee Tripp, 48, and others conspired to use personal identities without authorization to purchase more than $230,980 of vehicles in Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada. As part of the scheme, Tripp and a co-conspira

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United States of America v. Saed Ismail Amiri

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with defrauding the government of Afghanistan.

A California man pleaded for his role in a scheme to defraud the government of Afghanistan of over $100 million. These funds were provided to Afghanistan by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the purpose of constructing an electric grid in Afg

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United States of America v. Nepthali Luna and Devon Luna

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to make false odometer statements and commit securities fraud.

Nepthali Luna, 61, of San Antonio, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make false odometer statements and commit securities fraud, while his son, Devon Luna, 36, also of San Antonio, pleaded guilty to two counts of ma

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United States of America v. Shuren Qin

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to unlawfully export items from the United States.

A Chinese national pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally procuring and causing the illegal export of $100,000 worth of U.S. origin goods to Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), a Chinese milit

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Ronald Honaker v. State of Tennessee

Jackson, TN - Criminal defense attorney represented Ronald Honaker with appealing the denial of his post-conviction petition, arguing the post-conviction court erred in finding he received the effective assistance of counsel prior to and during his guilty plea hearing.



On November 13, 2012, the petitioner entered a best interest

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA, v. RYAN EARL EMERSON

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: 08/25/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
EMERSON, RYAN EARL Disposed: DEFERRED, 04/21/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP IN PA

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United States of America v. Varita V. Quincy

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with defrauding the government.

Varita V. Quincy, 35, of Snellville, Georgia was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit theft of property of value to the United States and one count of making false statements. Quincy admitted that, between April 2015 and July 2015, she and others

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Plaintiff, v. DANIEL WILLIAM WILSON, A/K/A DANIEL WILLIAM WILSON Defendant.

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA5, LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1720
Date of Offense: 04/11/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
WILSON, DANIEL WILLIAM Disposed: CONVICTION, 04/22/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE(LA5)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1720

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