False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Robert Woody

Clarksburg, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Robert Wood, of Morgantown, West Virginia was charged in March 2022 with one count Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zelda E. Wesley and Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The FBI's Northern West Virginia Drug Task Force in partnershi

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United States of America v. Yasiel Puig Valdes

Los Angeles, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001(a)(2), which provides:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-

(1) falsifies

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United States of America v. Brandon Prawl

Albany, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing heroin, possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

On four dates in September 2019, Brandon Prawl, age 28, from Schenectady, New York, distributed heroin out of a residence in Schenectady. On October 4, 2019, Prawl was found in possession

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United States of America v. Lorraine Pilitz, a/k/a Lorraine Christi, a/k/a Lorraine Storms

Central Islip, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally structuring financial transactions, corruptly obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and filing false tax returns.

“For years the defendant (Lorraine Pilitz, age 64) thought she could get away with hiding substantial amounts of cash and income, impeding the Internal Revenue Service, and ch

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United States of America v. Patrick J. Quinn

Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently receiving disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Patrick Quinn, 50, of Arlington, was convicted by a federal jury of two counts of theft of public funds and two counts of making false statements.

Since January 2012,

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United States of America v. Deeshawn Gadson

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

Deeshawn Gadson, 32, fraudulently field an application for unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, and received more than $7,000 in ill-gotten payments.

In April 2020, Gadson, who lived a

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United States of America v. Frederick Scott Dattel

Kansas City, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud.

Dr. Frederick Scott Dattle, age 57, from Leawood, Kansas participated in a nationwide scheme to defraud Medicare.

“A physician abused his position of trust to cause fraudulent claims to be filed for more than 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries,” said U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore. “This t

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United States of America v. Thomas Addaquay

Atlanta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax refund fraud scheme, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering.

“Thomas Addaquay and his co-defendants used the personal information of taxpayers to enrich themselves,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “Many of Addaquay’s victims testified

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United States of America v. Debra Campbell

Denver, Colorado criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and subscribing to a false tax return.

From 2009 through April 2018, Debra Campbell, age 66, from Grand Junction, Colorado, owned and operated a company called A Better Alternative Management (ABAM), which was hired by homeowners’ associations (HOAs) to manage their finances. Campbell had access to, and s

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Levinson Smith & Huffman, P.C., et al. v. Trevor Henson, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on fraud, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud, constructive trust, alter ego liability, unjust enrichment, equitable accounting, and conversion of personal property theories.

Plaintiff, Levinson, Smith and Huffman, PC ("LSH"), is a law firm. Defendants Trevor Henson and Carter B

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United States of America v. Robert L. Pryor, Elaine Pryor, and Joshua L. Pryor

Memphis, Tennessee criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with preparing and filing false tax returns under the business name Better Dayz Tax Services, LLC.

Robert L. Pryor, age 46, owned a tax-preparation business, Better Dayz Tax Services, LLC, in Memphis, Tennessee. His wife Elaine Pryor, age 43, and his brother Joshua L. Pryor, age 43, also worked at Better Dayz. He and h

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United States of America v. Shapour Moinian

San Diego, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and accepting thousands of dollars from representatives of the Chinese government to provide aviation-related information from his defense-contractor employers.

Shapour Moinian, age 27, from San Diego served in the U.S. Army in the Un

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United States of America v. Jeannie Valentin

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Jeannie Valentin, age 68, from Bethany, Oklahoma, was the credit manager for the Oklahoma City branch of Dealers Electrical Supply (“DES”). DES was an electrical supplies distributor headquartered in Waco, Texas. Valentin was responsible for the management of the consolidated billing for DES

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United States of America v. Forrest Hardy

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with interference with commerce by robbery.

On or about January 7, 2020, at approximately 6:41 p.m., Forrest Hardy, age 33, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while wearing a mask, entered the Boost Mobile Store, located at 8180 Scenic Hwy, Baton Rouge, which is across the street from Baton Rouge Police Department’s Fou

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United States of America v. Donna Osowitt Steele

Statesville, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

From 2013 to January 2020, Donna Osowitt Steele, agte 53, from Taylorsville, North Carolina, executed an extensive scheme to defraud her employer, identified in court documents as Victim Company A, a privately held U.S.-based subsidiary of a foreign company that manufactures carbide products. St

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United States of America v. Samuel Allen Mouzon

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Samule Allen Mouzon, age 62, from Lexington, North Carolina worked as the chief financial officer of a company in High Point for approximately twenty years. Between approximately December 2018 and February 2021, MOUZON embezzled approximately $2,038,285 for his own personal benefit and to fund pu

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United States of America v. Robert A. DiNoto

Baltimore, Maryland criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with commit wire fraud, in connection with conspiracy to commit wire fraud with a billing scheme involving a manufacturing company with facilities in Harford County, Maryland.

Robert A. DiNoto, age 46, from Huntington, New York, is the owner and President of American Pride Distributors (“American Pride”), locat

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United States of America v. Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and murder of two adolescent boys in 2016.

MS-13 gang members Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera, along with their co-conspirators, targeted E.E.E.M., a 17-year-old resident of Falls Church, who they erroneously su

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United States of America v. Vincent Galano

Trenton, New Jersey criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for his involvement in an invoice factoring scheme perpetrated over nearly a decade.

Vincent Galano, 60, of Oceanport, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi to an information charging him with one count of wire fraud. Judge Quraishi imposed the sentence today

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United States of America v. Matthew W. Mensinger

Williamsport, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with perpetrating a scheme to obtain bank loans through false statements.

Matthew W. Mensinger, age 49, from Berwick, Pennsylvania, was the Chief Lending Officer of a Berwick, Pennsylvania-based financial institution. Between approximately November 2011 and June 2020, Mensinger persuaded family members and bus

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United States of America v. Industrial Equipment and Supply Company, LLC (IESC), Mark Nystoriak and Sandra Nystoriak

Albany, New York civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

Industrial Equipment and Supply Company, LLC (IESC) and its principals, Mark Nystoriak and Sandra Nystoriak, of Latham, New York have agreed to pay $75,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act for selling counterfeit batteries to the federal government on a

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United States of America v. Kyler Booker

Brooklyn, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to deal in firearms and making false statements to acquire firearms.

Kyler Booker, age 44, from Little Rock, Arkansas, was a straw gun buyer who purchased at least 137 firearms from dealers in Arkansas between December 2019 and September 2021. Law enforcement has recovered at least 13 firearms illegal

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United States of America v. Adedayo Ilori

New York, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to obtain more than $10 million in government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From at least in or about August 2020 through at least in or about October 2021, Adedayo ILORI and his co-defendant, Chris Recamier, engaged in

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United States of America v. Brian Thomas Badgley

Burlington, Vermont criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly acquiring and possessing hydromorphone tablets and solutions by fraud and deception in violation of 21 U.S.C. 842(a)(3).

While employed as a pharmacy manager of the CVS located in Berlin, Vermont, Brian Thomas Badgley, age 37, of Waterbury, Vermont, tampered with a bottle of Hydromorphone oral solution by

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United States of America v. Quincy T. Doss

Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

between April 2021 and November 2021, Quincy T. Doss, age 41, submitted false and fraudulent PPP loan applications and received two separate PPP loans totaling more than $220,000. In the loan applications, Doss falsely represented

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