False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Terance Dewune Price

Hattiesburg, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with providing assistance in the preparation of a materially false tax return.

Terance Dewune Price, 41, was identified in an investigation by the IRS-CI as a tax preparer who assisted in the preparation and presentation to the IRS of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040, for an individual A. E.

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United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Peters

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Jeffrey L. Peters, 55, of Shreveport, was indicted and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges that on or about January 6, 2020, and continuing through at least January 19, 2021, Peters and others knowing

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United States of America v. Gabriel Michael Rendon

Amarillo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute durgs and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

Gabriel Michael Rendon, 28, was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of machineguns, possession of firearms in furtherance of a

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United States of America v. Nina Bourrett

Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false and fraudulent statements on claims submitted to Medicaid.

Nina Bourret, 41, of Greenville, was an owner of Agapi Behavior Consultants, Inc., which provided Applied Behavior Analysis therapy to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder. From February 2021 to December 2022, Bourret submitted electronic c

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United States of America v. Heather Ann Huffman

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud at least five states of more than $3.5 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits.

"Heather A. Huffman organized a massive VEC fraud conspiracy and abused her position as a federal employee to steal funds meant for those struggling with employment security and the economic

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United States of America v. Thomas Hartley

Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud in connection with multiple schemes to commit fraud.

former Special Agent with the Department of Labor, Thomas Hartley, age 49, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and admitted that he obtained a total of $197,366 through multiple fraud schemes. Between April 2020 and September 2021

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United States of America v. Paul J. Austin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false tax returns.

Paul J. Austin, age 60, pleaded guilty. Told the court that from 2012 through 2017, the he was the President of J.P. Austin Associates, Inc., a mineral processing company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. For calendar years 2012 through 2017, the defendant and his spouse, who serv

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Curt Richardson v. SJT Lawn Care Services, LLC, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on breach of contract theories.

Plaintiff claimed that he and Jose Baca Salazare agreed to use SJT Law Care Services, LLC as the legal entity for operate a lawn care company. Salazar treated Plaintiff was his partner in the business until on September 29, 2020 he summarily advised Plaintiff that Plaint

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United States of America v. Evoke Neuroscience, Inc. and David Hagedorn, Ph.D.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania qui tam litigation lawyers represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

Evoke Neuroscience, Inc., of New York will pay $225,000, and its co-founder/CEO David Hagedorn, Ph.D., of Jacksonville, North Carolina, will pay $220,000, to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for causing the submission of false claims to Medicare by promoting f

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United States of America v. Vyacheslav S. Migitskiy

Rochester, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with destruction or misuse of a vessel by a person in charge in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2274, making false statements in violation of 22 U.S.C. 1001, and Obstruction of navigable waters by a vessel in violation of 33 U.S.C. 409, wrongful deposit of refuse in violation of 33 U.S.C. 411.

Vyacheslav S. Migitskiy, 33, a

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United States of America v. Juan Hicks

Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

The former IT Director of a Warwick, RI, metals fabrication and supply company who used his purchasing authority to devise and execute a decade-long fraud scheme that bilked his employer out of more than $1M.

Juan Hicks, 47, of New Bedford, MA, pleaded guilty in March 2023 to a charge

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Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss v. Rudy Giuliani

Washington, DC personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a defamation theory.

After the polls closed across the country on November 3, 2020-the first Presidential election in U.S. history to be conducted in the midst of a deadly global pandemic-the results in some states were immediately called, with either former Vice President Biden or then-President Trump decla

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United States of America v. Maurice Lawson

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with obtaining nearly a half a million dollars by submitting multiple fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) applications.

“Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program to provide emergency financial assistance to millions of Americans suffering the econ

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United States of America v. Juan Martinez

Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to steal aircraft design and testing information in a plot to shorten the regulatory approval process for another company’s aircraft technology.

Juan Martinez, 53, of Yorba Linda, California, was convicted after a five-day trial in U.S. District Court in Savannah on one count of Conspiracy to Steal T

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United States of America v. Rajendra Bothra, M.D., Pain Center USA, P.L.L.C. and Interventional Pain Center, P.L.L.C.

Detroit, Michigan civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant with violating the Qui Tam False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for for unnecessary treatments, drug tests and braces.

A Michigan interventional pain management specialist, Rajendra Bothra, M.D., and two medical entities that he owned and operated, The Pain Center USA, PLLC, and Interventional Pain Center, PLLC,

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United States of America v. Allied Construction Company Inc. and Andrew Foster

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two separate conspiracies to rig bids for asphalt paving services contracts in Michigan.

Clarkston-based F. Allied Construction Company Inc. (Allied) and its president, Andrew Foster, conspired with two asphalt paving companies and their employees to rig bids in each other’s favor. Allied and Foster participat

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Michael Angel Ulloa II v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc.

San Francisco, California employment law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on wage and hour violation theory.


In this putative class action, Ulloa sues his former employer Securitas alleging numerous wage and hour violations under California law. [See Docket No. 1 (Notice of Removal, “NOR”) Ex. 1 (Compl.).] Plaintiff asserts the following claims in the FAC: 1) fail

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United States of America v. Lincare Holdings, Inc.

Spokane, Washington civil litigation lawyers represented accused of fraudulently overbilling Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans for oxygen equipment.

Lincare Holdings, Inc. a Florida based, wholly-owned subsidiary of German multinational chemical corporation Linde, PLC, provides oxygen equipment to patients with respiratory ailments such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

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United States of America v. Brian Beland and Denae Beland

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with wrongfully avoiding paying federal government taxes.

After an 8-day trial, a federal jury found Brian Beland, age 39, guilty of four counts: three for filing false tax returns for 2011, 2012, and 2013, and another count for corruptly impeding the ensuing tax audit. The tax returns illegally claimed both pe

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United States of America v. Seth Daniel Grant

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with impersonating a special agent with the FBI and for illegally possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction.

“Impersonating a federal officer for personal gain is an insult to the vital role the FBI plays in our community on a daily basis,” said U.S. Attorney Troester. “The FBI, like many other

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State of Georgi v. Donald Trump, et al.

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyers are representing Defendants on multiple criminal counts.

INTRODUCTION Defendant Donald JohnTrump lostthe United States presidential election held on November 3, 2020. One ofthe states he lost was Georgia. Trump andthe otherDefendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept thatTrump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy

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United States of America v. Cecily Aguilar

Waco, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing evidence, accessory after the fact to murder and making false statements to investigators..

Cecily Aguilar, 25, assisted Army Specialist Aaron Robinson in corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing evidence—that is, the body of Vanessa Guillen—in order

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State of New York v. Reginald Cameron

Bronx, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with murder.

167 Misc. 2d 61 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995)

"At approximately 11:30 P.M. on August 4, 1994, Kei Sunada, a Japanese exchange student, was shot to death on the 4th floor stairwell of 97-15 Horace Harding Expressway in the Lefrak City Development in Queens. Four days later, detectives investigating the homi

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Anthony Bernard Juniper v. Melvin C. Davis, et al.

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented Plaintiff convicted of capital murder.

This habeas case returns to us after a remand for an evidentiary hearing. Petitioner Anthony Juniper argues that the Commonwealth of Virginia's[1] suppression of evidence and knowing presentation of false or misleading testimony were cumulatively material under Brady v. Maryland and Napue v. Ill

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United States of America v. Heather Ann Huffman

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud at least five states of more than $3.5 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits.

“Heather Ann Huffman organized a massive VEC fraud conspiracy and abused her position as a federal employee to steal funds meant for those struggling with employment security and the econo

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