False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Tamara Yvonne Motley, a.k.a. “Tamara Ogembe,”

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently billing for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment – mostly power wheelchairs (PWC) – and PWC repairs, many of which were never performed.

Tamara Yvonne Motley, 54, a.k.a. “Tamara Ogembe,” of Redondo Beach, was found guilty by a federal jury of 20 counts of health care fraud,

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United States of America v. Anthony Duane Bell, Sr. and nthony Duane Bell, Jr.

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently receiving more than $21 million in Medicare payments.

Anthony Duane Bell, Sr. and nthony Duane Bell, Jr. created companies known as Universal Medical Solutions 1 and Universal Medical Solutions 2, with locations in Santee and San Diego. The companies supplied durable medical equipment like knee,

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United States of America v. Billy Joe Taylor

Fort Smith, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering.

Billy Joe Taylor, age 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering on October 27, 2022. According to court documents, Taylor and his co-conspirators submitted more than $134 million in false and fraudulent claims

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United States of America v. Lynda Charles, Rosie Bryant, Delois Bryant, Brenda Sherpell, Niki Charles, andd Everett Martindale

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the government in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371.

Seven defendants were sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of more than $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Chie

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United States of America v. Michael Bostock and Phil Abod

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.


Michael Bostock, 54, of Nampa, was the founder and CEO of California Technical Academy (CTA), a VA-approved school that offered technical training programs at three locations near Los Angeles and San Diego. From January 2012 through June 2022, Bostock and his co-conspir

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United States of America v. Billy Marcus

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a multi-millaion dollar Ponzi type scheme.

Billy Marcum, Jr., 67, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty in December 2022 to wire fraud. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, who also ordered him to pay more than $16 million in restitution.

In plea

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United States of America v. Daniel Alan Puff

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted coercion and enticement, attempted sex trafficking of a minor, obstruction of justice, and false statement to law enforcement officer.

Daniel Alan Puff, 38, from Virginia Beach, negotiated to receive a sex act from a 13-year-old female, believing he was speaking to her mother. In fact, he was communica

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United States of America v. Dr. Qing McGaha

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with 14 counts of unlawful drug distribution, 4 counts of money laundering, and 1 count of filing a false tax return.

Dr. Qing McGaha was a Florida-licensed medical doctor who owned and operated MD Care Clinic, a pain management clinic in Hillsborough County. Over a 20-month period, undercover agents with the Drug Enfor

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United States of America v. Dennis Ferreira

Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with intentionally misleading officials as to the origin and the potential contaminant composition of dozens of truckloads of railroad ballast (stone) and dirt imported for a project.

Dennis Ferreira, a former employee of Barletta Heavy Division, Inc., a Massachusetts construction company responsible for the co

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United States of America v. Asem Farooq

Fort Worth, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making a false statement on a passport application in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1542.

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Deborah Brown v. Coty, Inc.

New York, New York personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a product liability theory.


Plaintiff, Deborah Brown, brings this putative class action against Defendant, Coty, Inc. (“Coty”), alleging violations of the New York Consumer Law for Deceptive Acts and Practices, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §§ 349 and 350, breach of an express warranty, breach of an impl

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Mahisa Baker, et al. v. Solvay Specialty Polymers, U.S.A., LLC, et al.

Newark, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on product liability theory.

In March and June of 2022, Plaintiffs filed their complaints in the Superior Court of New Jersey, docketed as follows: Baker, et al. v. A. Clemente, Inc., et al., Case No. SLM-L-000098-22; Medford, et al. v. Clemente, Inc., et al., Case No. SLM-L-000046-22; Wilson v. Clemente, I

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Robin Humphrey v. The J.M. Smucker Company

San Francisco, California personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a product liability theory.


Three brands of pet food are pertinent to this case: 9Lives, Kibbles ‘n Bits, and Meow Mix (collectively, “the products”). First Am. Compl. (“FAC”) [Dkt. No. 27] ¶ 1. Humphrey, a
California resident, alleges that she purchased these products because

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United States of America v. Charles St. George Kirkland

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with an eight-year tax fraud scheme that resulted in more than $50 million in illegal tax refunds.

Charles St. George Kirkland pleaded guilty in January 2023 to three counts of aiding or assisting the filing of fraudulent tax documents. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John H. Chun rejected the defen

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United States of America v. Rachel Peay-Goodman

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully prescribing controlled substances and submitting false claims to Medicare while working for AmeriHealth in Pocatello.

Rachel Peay-Goodman, a nurse practitioner in eastern Idaho, wrote prescriptions for dangerous combinations of drugs to at least one patient, including simultaneous prescriptions for oxycodo

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United States of America v. Chrisophter Gualtieri

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding his employer's health insurance plan out of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compound medications.

Compounded medications are specialty medications mixed by a pharmacist to meet the specific medical needs of an individual patient. Compounded drugs can be

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United States of America v. Anyclo International, Inc.

Newark, New Jersey civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant charged with evading customs duties on clothing that it imported into the United States.

Anyclo International Inc. (Anyclo) pleaded guilty to an information charging the company with evading customs duties. Anyclo was also sentenced on this charge today to a criminal fine of $250,000 and ordered to pay restitution to the U

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Louis Cininelli v. United States of America

Petitioner Louis Ciminelli was convicted of federal wire fraud for his involvement in a scheme to rig the bid process for obtaining state-funded
development projects associated with then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion initiative. The Buffalo Billion initiative
was administered by the nonprofit Fort Schuyler Management Corporation. Investigations uncovered that Fort

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United States of America v. Arthur Williams and Sean Williams

Central Islip, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Arthur Cornwall, a signal maintainer with the New York City Transit Authority, and Sean Williams, a New York State Court Officer, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with their receipt of approximately $770,000 in small business loans under the P

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United States of America v. Donald J. Trump

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

WILLFUL RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION/18:793
(1-31)

(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, go

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United States of America v. Chris E. McCormick

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and money laundering.

In May 2020, in the District of Utah and elsewhere, Chris E. McCormick, 64, of Cottonwood Heights, illegally made false representations to Mountain America Credit Union to obtain approximately $266,000 in PP

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Robert DuBoise v. City of Tampa, et al.

Tampa, Florida civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming his rights were violated by being wrongfully charged and convicted of a crime he did not commit.

"After DNA analysis of newly-discovered evidence “affirmatively excluded him” as a suspect and resulted in the vacatur of his 1985 conviction for murder, Robert DuBoise sues (Doc. 62) the City of Tampa,

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United States of America v. Jose Manuel Najera-Fuentes

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2250(a).


In accordance with the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142(f), a detention hearing has been submitted to the Court. I have considered all the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3142(g). I conclude that the following facts are established:

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United States of America v. Elizabeth Torres

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with workers' compensation fraud.

Elizabeth Torres duped the DOL into paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal disability benefits by falsely claiming that she had a debilitating knee injury and, therefore, essentially could not work, but in fact, TORRES was employed full-time for several years d

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United States of America v. Arman Grigoryan

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining almost $3 million in COVID-19 business loans and jobless benefits,

Arman Grigoryan, 42, pleaded guilty in October 2021 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He has been in federal custody since July 2022 after a court determined he had violated the terms of his pretrial

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