False Pretense Law
 
United States of America v. Shenita Daniel and Wayne A. Lowe, Jr.

Atlanta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with identity theft.

Shenita Daniel and Wayne A. Lowe, Jr., were indicted for allegedly using numerous stolen identities to fraudulently claim Unemployment Insurance (“UI”) benefits under fictitious employer accounts registered with the Georgia Department of Labor. The scheme resulted in the fraudulent payment of more

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Sunil Kumar Mehta and Mehta Investments, Ltd. v. Mohammed Ahmed

Houston, Texas – Fraud lawyer represented Appellants with suing for for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, and fraud.



In his fourth amended petition, Ahmed alleged that in June 2017, the West
Oaks Mall, a 60-acre property in a prime west Houston location, was listed for sale.
Mehta, a Houston-area businessma

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United States of America v. James Timothy Norman

St. Louis, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder-for-hire and insurance fraud charges connected his successful plot to have his nephew killed in 2016.

After seven days of evidence, jurors found James Timothy Norman, 43, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in the fatal shooting of 21-

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United States of America v. Chad Cline and BJ Trucking Company, Inc.

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with violating the False Claims Act.

A jury found Chad Cline and BJ Trucking Company, Inc. liable for $1,679,086 worth of unauthorized fuel purchases under United States Postal Service contracts, in violation of the False Claims Act. The jury also found that while BJ Trucking was insolvent and owed a substantial

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United States of America v. Dr. Kenneth Mitchell

Detroit, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding Medicare by billing for services under another doctor’s name after Medicare revoked his privileges to participate in the program.

The defendant, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, 60, of Oakland County, Michigan, was also charged for falsification of records designed to prevent detection of this fraud and aggravated

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United States of America v. Randall Halley

Springfield, Missouri criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making a false statement related to healthcare and to Conspiring with Employees to Illegally Issue Controlled Substances to Patients

On Dec. 7, 2021, Halley pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to Medicare to obtain insurance coverage for a fentanyl prescription and to one count of conspiracy to us

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United States of America v. Olumide Obidare, and Stephen Oseghale

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to court documents, beginning in 2016 through May 2021, Olumide Obidare, 29, and Stephen Oseghale, 29, conspired with each other to use fictitious and stolen identities to engage in business email compromise (BEC) fraud schemes and pursue

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State of Florida v. Darryl Daniels

Green Cove Springs, Florida criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual misconduct, destroying evidence, giving false information and false reporting to law enforcement.

Darryl Daniels was accused of ordering deputies to arrest his mistress for stalking.

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Billy Wischnewsky and Amy Wischnewsky v. James Marsh and Kasey Marsh

Houston, Texas – Real Estate lawyer represented Appellant with a fraudulent misrepresentation or concealing known defects claim.



In 2018, the Wischnewskys agreed to purchase a home from the Marshes. The
Marshes were represented by Marilyn Ames of Ames Properties, L.L.C. The
Marshes executed a form Seller’s Disclosu

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United States of America v. Dennis Plasabas

San Diego, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with
Environmental Crimes.

Oily Bilge Water Discharge Offense.In pleading guilty, New Trade and Plasabas admitted that oily bilge water was illegally dumped from the Longshore directly into the ocean without being properly processed through required pollution prevention equipment. Oily bilge water typically contains

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United States of America v. Roy "Wayne" Jenkins

Louisville, Kentucky criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding an elderly victim out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a bank fraud scheme.

Roy “Wayne” Jenkins, 66, converted at least $285,336.93 of the victim’s property to his personal use through fraudulent bank transactions between August 2013 and January 2018. Jenkins gained access to the elderly victim

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United States of America v. Justin Wallace Herman and Charles "Chuck" Winters, Jr. and Robert "Bob" Mitchell

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud and identity theft crimes arising from securities fraud.

Justin Wallace Herman and Charles "Chuck" Winters, Jr. conspired to “pump and dump” the common stock of NuTech Energy Resources. A “pump and dump” is a form of securities fraud where the conspirators manipulate demand for a stock and the stock’s pri

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United States of America v. Sadie Mitchell

Richmond, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, using victims’ personal identifying information that she obtained from her state government employment.

In the first of three fraud schemes, from May 2020 to Augu

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United States of America v. Samari Smith

Newport News, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Navy Federal Credit Union and its members out of money and property.

From approximately April to August 2021, Samari Smith, 20, conspired with at least four other people to commit credit union fraud by convincing account holders to withdraw and turnover funds to them under false pretenses. Smit

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The State of Texas v. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. dba Wharton; and Wharton County Foods, LLC

Houston, Texas – Business Litigation lawyer represented defendant with an interlocutory appeal concerning the sale of eggs during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.



Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. is the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in
the United States. The company is a conglomerate comprised of its own operati

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United States of America v. Michael Garrison

Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, eight counts of wire fraud, two counts of destruction of an energy facility, and one count of filing a false tax return.

Michael Garrison, age 43, of Croydon, Pennsylvania, broke into shuttered coal-fired power plants that had b

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United States of America v. James J. Peperno

Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy, federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, Travel Act, false statement, and perjury offenses.

James J. Peperno, Jr., age 57, of Old Forge, Pennsylvania was convicted of soliciting cash payments and debt forgiveness from a local business owner, to provide to Robert Semenza, Jr., the former Presi

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United States of America v. Glen Zinszer

Syracuse, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and filing false tax returns.

Glen Zinszer, age 52, of Liverpool, New York, admitted that he began operating the Brazzlebox company in 2012, which he represented to investors would be like Facebook for business. Beginning in April 2013 and continuing until approximately the summer of 2016, Zinszer made false

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United States of America v. George Djurasevic

Brooklyn, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with bribery and tax evasion.

George Djurasevic, age 54, of Armonk, New York, pled guilty to bribery, in violation of the Travel Act, admitting that he accepted more than half-a-million dollars in bribe payments in his role as a manager of a company (the “Company”) contracted by the New York City Water Board (NYCWB) to p

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United States of America v. DiAne Gordon

Memphis, Tennessee criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fabrication of discharge monitoring reports required under the Clean Water Act and the submission of those fraudulent documents to state regulators in Tennessee and Mississippi.

DiAne Gordon, age 61, of Memphis, Tennessee, was the co-owner and chief executive officer of Environmental Compliance and Testing (ECT). ECT

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Sandeep Patel and ERCC Construction Company, LLC v. Warwick Construction, Inc.

Houston, Texas – Civil Litgation lawyer represented Appellee with alleging fraud and engaging in a conspiracy to commit fraud against appellants.


Sandeep Patel is the managing member of ERCC. Syed Anwar, Aman Jafar,
and Khurram Ibrihim are the other members of ERCC, which was formed in 2011.
Patel, Anwar, Jafar, and I

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United States of America v. Okanlawon Azeez Egerongbe a/k/a Tony Kunle

Austin, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with Conspiracy to commit money laundering and Fraud Schemes.

On May 18, 2021, Egerongbe pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to court records, Egerongbe knowingly laundered millions of dollars from victims that he obtained through various fraud schemes. The frauds included romance, bus

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United States of America v. Artur Giloski

Dallas, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with Operating $20 Million Nationwide Retail Crime Ring

Conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Mr. Gilowski’s coconspirators stole tens of thousands of products – valued at over $20 million – from brick-and-mortar retail stores across the United States, the

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United States of America v. Daniel Chase

Rutland, Vermont criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly and willfully making false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations to the Social Security Administration.

In May 2021, a federal grand jury in Burlington returned an indictment charging Daniel Chase, 61, of Weathersfield, with three counts of making false statements to the Social Security Admi

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United States of America v. Brent Brewbaker and Contech Engineered Solutions, LLC

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with bid-rigging and fraud.

Following a week-long trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in January, a jury convicted Brent Brewbaker, a former Contech executive, for participating in conspiracies to rig bids and submit false certifications of non-collusion for more than 300 aluminum

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