False Pretense Law
 
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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United States of America v. David Wright

Houston, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently filing tax returns from 2014 to 2017.

David Wright and his employees prepared and submitted 43 fraudulent tax returns for 16 clients. They consistently used false Schedule C Business Income or Loss deductions to inflate tax refunds for clients.

They included fake expenses such as advertising, vehic

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United States of America v. Garland Stephens

Macon, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Garland Stephens, 66, of Macon, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud a financial institution before U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell on Oct. 27. Stephens faces a maximum of 30 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $1,000,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled f

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United States of America v. Greg Warren Clarke

Fort Lauderdale, Florida criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

Greg Warren Clarke, 30, of Montego Bay conspired to operate a fraudulent lottery scheme. From in or around September 2013, through in or around August 2015, Clarke worked with co-conspirators, including Claude Anthony Shaw, in a scheme to defraud in which victims were c

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State of Oklahoma v. Joshua Phillip Womack

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making a false declaration of ownership to a pawnbroker in violation of 59 O.S. 1512(C)(2), which provides:

A. Rule Making Power. The Administrator shall have the same authority to adopt, amend and repeal rules as is conferred upon him by paragraph (e) of subsection (1), and subsections (2) and (3) of Secti

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State of Oklahoma v. Jason Lance Meier

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
False Declaration of Ownership in Pawn Shop.

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: 12/09/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
MEIER, JASON LANCE Disposed: DEFERRED, 10/24/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as D

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State of Oklahoma v. Jason Lance Meier

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Obtaining Money, Property Or Signature Under False Pretenses.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, OBTAINING MONEY, PROPERTY OR SIGNATURE UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, in violation of 21 O.S. 1542A
Date of Offense: 11/08/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
MEIER, JASON LANCE Disposed: DEFERRED, 10/24/202

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United States of America v. Christopher Toups

San Diego, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Christopher Toups, who at the time of his crimes was a chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he and others participated in a scheme to file false claims to obtain unearned benefits from an insurance program that compensates ser

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United States of America v. Tim Shea

New York City, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

"Timothy Shea and his co-defendants orchestrated a crowdfunding scheme to purportedly raise funds to erect a border wall between Mexico and the United States. We Build The Wall’s public campaign promised that 100% of the funds raised would be used to build the wall, which induced over 100,000 victims

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United States of America v. Joshua Hall

New York City, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress.

Joshua Hall pled guilty to wire fraud for impersonating family members of the then-President of the United States on social media to fraudulently raise funds for a fictitious political organization (the “Fraud Scheme”). At the time HALL made th

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United States of America v. Travell Anthony Hill

St. Louis, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.

Travell Anthony Hill, 31, pleaded guilty in June to one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of murder-for-hire in the death of Andre Montgomery Jr. on March 14, 2016.

In court Thursday, Hill re-affirmed what he’d admitted in his plea agreement

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United States of America v. John T. Coli, Sr.

Chicago, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with interference with commerce by threat or violence, requesting or demanding money or a thing of value, and making false or fraudulent statements.

John T. Coli, Sr., 63 from Putman, Illinois pleaded guilty pursuant to a cooperation plea agreement in 2019 to one count of receiving a prohibited payment as a union officer

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United States of America v. Daniel R. Canchola

Dallas, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment and cancer genetic testing without ever seeing, speaking to, or otherwise treating patients.

Daniel R. Canchola, 49, of Flower Mound, agreed to electronically sign orders for durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genetic testing that he knew were used to s

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Larry Elliott Klayman v. Thomas J. Fitton, et al.

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

The complaint alleged that Roger Stone, during an interview on
InfoWars, a website, stated: “He [Klayman] was ousted at Judicial Watch. Ask Tom Fitton [the
current president of Judicial Watch] why he left. He left because of a sexual harassment complaint.”
Klayman alleg

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United States of America v. Honeywell International, Inc.

Washington, DC: civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by selling defective material for bullet proof vests used by law enforcement officers.

The United States alleged that, between 2000 and 2005, Honeywell sold its patented Z Shield material to Armor Holdings, a bullet proof vest manufacturer, despite Honeywell knowing that Z Shield degr

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United States of America v. Brijonre Hamilton

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating 28 U.S.C. 924, which provides:

(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, subsection (b), (c), (f), or (p) of this section, or in section 929, whoever—

(A) knowingly makes any false statement or representation with respect to the information required by this chapter to be kept

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United States of America v. Forrest Hardy

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for 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 Four

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United States of America v. Samuel Allen Mouzon

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

Samuel Allen Mouzon, age 62, of Lexington, North Carolina, was sentenced to a 41-month term of imprisonment by the Honorable Catherine C. Eagles, United States District Judge in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. In addition to prison time, MOUZON was or

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United States of America v. Furman Alexander Ford

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conpsiracy to commit health care fraud, healthcare fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Furman Alexander Ford, 52 years old, and his co-conspirator Jimmy Guess, who pled guilty on September 16, 2020 to healthcare fraud, conspired in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting false claims to Medicare

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United States of America v. Clarence A. Joles, Sr.

Fayetteville, Arkansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for filing a false tax return with the IRS on which he did not report all of the income he earned from his business.

Clarence A. Joles, Sr., of Texarkana, owned Rock Hard Paving, an asphalt paving business, which he operated as a sole proprietorship. Joles admitted that he deposited Rock Hard Paving’s gross receipt

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United States of America v. Daniel R. Canchola

Dallas, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for his role in a $54 million scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment and cancer genetic testing without ever seeing, speaking to, or otherwise treating patients.

Daniel R. Canchola, 49, of Flower Mound, agreed to electronically sign orders for durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genetic te

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United States of America v. Joshua Brain Romano

Richmond, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Joshua Brian Romano, 40, owned various businesses that purchased, rehabilitated, and sold homes around Richmond. He funded this work via construction loans that were held in escrow in the trust account of a Chesterfield County law firm. The loans were earmarked for use by Romano only

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United States of America v. Brett Leonza Freeman

Martinsburg, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute drugs.

Brett Leonza Freeman, 38, from Wiley Ford, West Virgina, pleaded guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and to Distribute Cocaine Hydrochloride and Cocaine Base.” Freeman admitted to working with others to sell cocain

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United States of America v. Trevor Dean Williams

Huntington, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

On May 19, 2022, law enforcement officers responded to Tevor Dean Williams’ Huntington residence after a home alarm system alerted 911. Officer observed suspected drug paraphernalia including a blender containing a powder substance, needles and torn plastic bags as well as am

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United States of America v. Melvin Theophilius Hill

Huntington, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On May 2, 2022, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by Hill near 13th Street and Ninth Avenue in Huntington. Officers searched the vehicle and found a loaded FN 509 9mm handgun in the passenger seat rear pocket. Melvin Theophilius Hil

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