False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Dr. Patricia Ashton Derges

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, illegal distribution of controlled substances and making false statements to investigators in June 2022.

Dr. Patricia Dergest, a former Missouri state Representative was charged with several felonies relating to her for-profit and nonprofit clinics' finances, her consistent false advertising for

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United States of America v. L&T Technology Services, Ltd., a/k/a LTTS

Columbia, South Carolina qui tam lawyers sued Defendant on a False Claims Act theory claimed that Defendant between 2014 and 2019 It underpaid visa fees owed to the United States by acquiring B-1 visas, rather than more expensive H-1B visas in violation of the False Claims Act.

L&T Technology Services, LTD (“LTTS”), a company based in India, with U.S. offices in Edison New Jersey, a/k

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Howard Mount, Jr. v. United States of America

Missoula, Montana personal Injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims Act Medical Malpractice theory.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties relating to the death of Howard Mount, Sr. are not available.

The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) is a federal law that waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and allows individua

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Chasrick Heredia v. Michael Roscoe, et al.

Concord, New Hampshire civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a constitution rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

This case arose out of an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of May 11, 2018. Manchester Police Officers Michael Roscoe, Canada Stewart, Matthew Nocella, and Nathan Harrington responded to a noise complaint at a local bar. The o

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United States of America v. Besim Kukaj

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with orchestrating a sprawling loan fraud scheme, including while he was on pretrial release, whereby he fraudulently sought at least $6.14 million and received $1.5 million in Government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Manhattan restaurateur Be

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Candice Howard v. Jason Baca, et al.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act.


On August 13, 2020, Ms. Howard was in her vehicle at Purcell Lake talking on the phone with friends. A police car pulled up and parked behind Ms. Howard, and a uniformed officer-Defendant Baca-exited his car and approached her. They

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United States of America v. Joshua Leavitt

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtain over $6 million in CARES Act funds from the United States government.

Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help businesses and individuals adversely affected by the COVID pandemic. The CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), w

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United States of America v. Ty J.K. Cullen

Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with honest services wire fraud which consisted of his acceptance of multiple bribes in return for performing, and agreeing to perform, official legislative acts on behalf of a Hawaii businessperson.

Ty J.K. Cullen, age 42, former Hawaii State Representative and Vice Chair of the House Committee on Finance accepted br

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Brittanie Henry ex rel., United States of America v. Pharmacy Holdings, LLC, et al.

Charlotte, North Carolina whistleblower lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a False Claims Act villaton theory claiming that it knowingly billed federal health care programs for medications that were never dispensed.

The United States alleged that, from Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2019, MedCare billed both Medicare Part D and North Carolina Medicaid for 200 prescription

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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, Rachel Kingston, and Sally Kingston

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government.

From 2010 to 2018, Lev Aslan Dermen, age 56, conspired with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, their mother, Rachel Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s wife, Sally Kingston, and others, to fraudulently claim more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. The IRS ultimat

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Jajed Khalil v. Fox Corporation and Lou Dobbs

New York City, New York personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendant on a slander theory.


Plaintiff, a Venezuelan businessman, states that the Court has personal jurisdiction over Powell pursuant to CPLR § 302 for five reasons:

(i) Powell made the defamatory and disparaging statements at issue in the Complaint knowing and intending for them to be bro

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Todd Stewart

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Jeffrey Todd Stewart. age 57, from Bakerfield, California, was employed as a certified public accountant in Bakersfield. Between September 2014 and June 2018, Stewart solicited and received over $2 million from investors to pay fees and expenses purportedly needed for an overseas business deal. Stewa

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State of South Carolina v. Richard Gagnon

Nixonville, South Carolina - Richard Gagnon, age 32, was convicted to murdering Charles Park Sr. and Diane Parker, both 54 on April 12, 2005.

"Two weeks later, police arrested Diane’s daughter, 34-year-old Bambi Bennett, and Bennett’s 32-year-old boyfriend, Richard Gagnon and charged them with first-degree murder and burglary.

Horry County Sheriff’s police said there had be

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United States of America v. Charles Austin Jenkins and Robert Justin Krop

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyers representing Defendants charged with conspiracy and false statements in order to acquire machineguns.

Charles Jenkins has been the Sheriff of Frederick County since his election in 2006 and was most recently re-elected in 2022. Robert Krop is the principal owner and operator of firearms-related businesses in Frederick County. Krop and his bu

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STATE ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. ALEXANDER L. BEDNAR

¶1 Alexander L. Bednar (Respondent) is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association (Bar) and is licensed to practice law in Oklahoma. The Bar initiated this action under Rule 6 of the Rules Governing Disciplinary Proceedings (RGDP), 5 O.S.2011, ch.1, app. 1-A, by filing an eleven-count Complaint on December 21, 2017. Respondent did not respond to the Complaint or to the Bar's Motion to Deem Allegati

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United States of America v. Delma Vitela

Midland, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in the purchases of firearms.

Delma Vitela, 45, purchased at least six firearms between December 2020 and March 2022 from various gun stores in the Midland/Odessa area for her then-boyfriend, a Mexican national. Vitela's then-boyfriend was prohibited from possessing firearms based on his imm

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United States of America v. Nohmaan Malik

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Nohmaan Malik, age 30, admitted he and coconspirators defrauded Chase Bank customers for $1.9 million.

They selected customers with sizeable balances at Chase and created counterfeit passport cards using the customers’ names and identifying information but with conspirators’ photographs. Usin

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Chester R. Bauer v. State of Montana


¶ 1 Chester R. Bauer (Bauer) appeals from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief by the Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Blaine County. We reverse and remand for resentencing.

¶ 2 The sole issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in concluding that Bauer was not entitled to resentencing on due process grounds.

Factual and Proce

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State of New Mexico v. McArthur Campbell

Albuquerque, New Mexico defendant charged with child sex abuse.

On May 2, 2002, police were called to an apartment building in Albuquerque, New Mexico because the manager of the complex reported that one of her tenants claimed that her boyfriend, 40-year-old MacArthur Campbell, had sexually molested her five-year-old son, I.J.

The boy was taken to a hospital for an examination, w

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State of Michigan v. Danny Burton

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

"In May 1987, Danny Burton, a 19-year-old Black male, was charged with the murder of a young man, Leonard Ruffin, who was fatally shot in an alley in Detroit. Paul Young, another Black male, was the first to be arrested and told police, under duress, that he had been accompanied by Danny, 18-

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Danny Burton v. Ronald Sanders, et al.

Detroit, Michigan civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendants claiming that they violated his civil rights with the result he was wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit.


This action arises out of Danny Burton's September 14, 1987 conviction for First-Degree Murder and Felony Firearm associated with the death of Leonard Ruffin. Burton was sentenced to li

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Danny Lamont Chambers; Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith v. Ronald Sanders; City of Detroit, Michigan

Danny Lamont Chambers and Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith allege that Detective Ronald Sanders and his employer, the City of Detroit, violated their Fourteenth Amendment right to familial integrity by procuring the wrongful
conviction and incarceration of their father, Danny Burton. Even assuming that the plaintiffs
have identified a substantive right protected by the Due Process Clause, thei

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United States of America v. Jorge Luis Perez

Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug and gun felonies.

Between May and July 2020, Jorge Luis Perez, age 36, of Wimauma, Florida, distributed methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in Jackson and Swain Counties. Law enforcement conducting an investigation into drug trafficking networks operating in Western North Carolina learned of Perez

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United States of America v. Karen Sarkisyan, a/k/a Kevin Sarkisyan

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with submitting false enrollment applications to Medicare that hid the real owners of a fraudulent hospice company, which then submitted over $3.1 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.

Karen Sarkisyan, aka Kevin Sarkisyan, 44, of Glendale, submitted false and fraudulent Medicare enrollment forms fo

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United States of America v. Sumo Dukulah

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with procurement of citizenship by a false statement and unlawfully arising from his failure to honestly answer questions during the naturalization process about his prior criminal activity, including his rape of a child under the age of thirteen.

Sumo Dukulah, age 49, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania indicted

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