False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Charles Clark

Concord, New Hampshire criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements.

In July 2020, Charles Clark, age 64, from Merrimack, fraudulently applied for a loan under the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Congress had authorized multiple relief programs, including EIDL, to help the millions of Americans and many small businesses adversely affected b

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United States of America v. Ramie Renee Marston

Mobile, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Ramie Renee Marston, 53, was previously convicted and served prison time for various federal felony fraud convictions in the District of New Hampshire. Those crimes included access device fraud, fraud in connection with identification documents, false representation of a social

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United States of America v. Ezra Hatcher, SR. and Sherry Hatcher

Augusta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing fraudulent tax returns.

Ezra Hatcher Sr., 67, of Hephzibah, Georgia and Hatcher’s daughter, Sherry Hatcher, 42, of Augusta, were pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns.

In addition, each defendant is permanently prohibited

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United States of America v. Tasmin Jamal Stewart

Dallas, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful possession and distribution of drugs.

It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—

(1) who is a registrant to distribute a controlled substance classified in schedule I or II, in the course of his legitimate business, except pursuant to an order or an order form as required by secti

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State of Oklahoma v. Roberts, Mark Scott

Norman, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with
False Declaration of Ownership in Pawn.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OWN, FALSE DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP in pawn, in violation of 59 O.S. 1512(C)(2)
Date of Offense: 03/03/2011
Party Name Disposition Information
Roberts, Mark Scott Disposed: CONVICTION, 01/12/2015. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: FA

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United States of America v. Rusmaldy Jimenez-Hiciano

Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for his role in perpetrating a mail fraud scheme to steal high-end electronics from his former employer, Walmart.

In June 2022, the Rusmaldy Jimenez-Hiciano, 38, of Goose Creek, SC, pleaded guilty to four counts of mail fraud and admitted in court that he masterminded a scheme to steal and re-sell expensive electro

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United States of America v. Ji Chaoqun

Chicago, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting illegally within the United States as an agent of the People's Republic of China.

Ji Chaoqun, age 31, was found guilty on one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, specifically the People’s Republic of China, without first notifying the Attorney General; one count of acting as an ag

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United States of America v. Biogen, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe Biogen drugs.

In his lawsuit filed in the District of Massachusetts, Bawduniak alleged that Biogen paid kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescri

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United States of America v. Abidermi Rufai

Tacoma, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Abidermi Rufai was the Special Assistant to the Governor of Nigeria’s Ogun State. He admitted a long history of using stolen identities to defraud U.S. disaster programs, including aid for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and file fraudulent U.S. tax returns. At the sentenci

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United States of America v. Liang "Paul" Chen

Los Angeles, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false tax returns that failed to report more than $4.8 million over a five-year period.

Liang “Paul” Chen, 63, the owner of the Chino-based construction company Mass Development, Inc (MDI), who is identified in court documents as a resident of Los Angeles County, admitted in court that he filed fals

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United States of America v. Craig L. Josephberg

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

Craig Josephberg, a former registered broker who worked at multiple brokerage firms in New York, New York with abusinghis position as a registered broker to victimize both his customers and the investing public through an expansive fraud scheme to manipulate the stock price of multiple companies for his

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United States of America v. Orland Reed

Gulfport, Mississippi criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with preparing false tax returns for his clients.

Orland Reed worked at a Gulfport tax return preparation business. Between 2012 and 2014, Reed prepared tax returns for clients that included one or more false items, including false education credits, dependent information, federal income tax withholdings, and retireme

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Marlonia Ivy v. Victor Garcia and Wanda Garcia

Austin, Texas – Real Estate lawyer represented Appellant with Asserting claims for common-law fraud.



This is the second appeal arising from Ivy’s suit. The first appeal was filed by Ivy after the trial court granted a traditional motion for summary judgment in favor of the Garcias on the ground that the as-is clau

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United States of America v. Limin Ye

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with manufacturing firearms without a license, selling them, and knowingly reporting sales incorrectly on federal firearms forms.

Limin Ye, 53, of Blue Ash, Ohio, who owns and operates Opticzoom and Limin Sports Gun Shop, pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in the business of manufacturing firearms without a license an

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United States of America v. David Tillman Deloach

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with using a stolen identity to illegally purchase 28 handguns.

A Special Agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Chicago Field Division began investigating David Tillman Deloach, age 39, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, after he was stopped by Indiana State Police for traffic violations

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United States of America v. Orland Reed

Gulfport, Mississippi criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with preparing false tax returns for his clients.

Orland Reed worked at a Gulfport tax return preparation business. Between 2012 and 2014, Reed prepared tax returns for clients that included one or more false items, including false education credits, dependent information, federal income tax withholdings, and retirem

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United States of America v. Travis Crosby

Atlanta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining a $300,000 forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

Travis Crosby, 32, of Wellford, conspired to submit a PPP loan application on behalf of Crosby’s company, Fai

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United States of America v. Shawn Lynn Parcells

Topeka, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with
Performing autopsies using false credentials.

According to court documents, between May 2016 and May 2019, the defendant used NAS to obtain fees from more than 350 clients for a total amount of $1,166,000. In many cases, the defendant failed to provide an authentic completed report.



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United States of America v. Shaneca J. Moseley

Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with misuse of a Social Security number, loan fraud, and identity theft.

According to court documents, Shaneca Moseley, 39, engaged in an identity takeover of C.J., a New Jersey resident. Between 2018 and 2020, Moseley impersonated C.J. by possessing and using a forged driver’s license containing C.J.’s personal

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United States of America v. Stephanie Mendenhall

Sioux City, Iowa criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with
Theft of Government Funds and Money Laundering Conspiracy.

At the plea hearing, Mendenhall admitted to facilitating false claims for unemployment insurance benefits, which were intended for those in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the names of other people and allowing those funds to be deposited into bank a

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United States of America v. William Lewis

Clarkesburg, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with lying about alleged abuse to inmates.

William Lewis, 34, of Elkins, West Virginia, was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of two counts of “False Statement to Federal Agent.” After initially reporting that excessive force was being used against inmates in the special housing unit, Lewis denied that it had

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United States of America v. Asa Saint Clair, a/k/a Asa Willaims, a/k/a Asa Sinclair

New York City, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with devising a fraudulent investment scheme in which he tricked at least 60 victims into providing loans to his organization, the World Sports Alliance, tied to a purported digital coin offering called IGObit.

Asa Saint Clair, falsely represented to investors that the World Sports Alliance was a close affiliate o

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United States of America v. Mark Pagani

New Haven, Connecticut criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud and tax evasion.

From 2013 to at least August 2015, Mark Pagani, age 61, from Bolton, Connecticut, conspired with another person (“K.S.”), who is now deceased, to defraud a victim investor of more than $1 million. K.S. arranged investment deals with the victim, including the purported acquisition of

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John Doe v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boston, Massachusetts civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Title IX violation theory.

A writer is free to assume a nom
de plume. That is why Mark Twain and Bob Dylan are better known
than Samuel Clemens and Robert Zimmerman. But, as a rule,
litigants in federal court must publicly reveal their true names.
In this appeal, we tackle a questi

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United States of America v. Mitzi L. Bicker

Atlanta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with accepting approximately $3 million in bribe money to influence government contracts, money laundering, lying to the City of Atlanta to maintain her salary and cabinet-level position, and failing to disclose more than $600,000 in income on her federal tax return.

“For years, Mitzi Bickers masterminded a sophisticate

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