False Pretense Law
 
Nerlens Noel v. Richard Paul and Klutch Sports Group, LLC

Dallas, Texas civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on breach of contract theories.


Noel began his NBA career as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers after being selected in the first round of the 2013 NBA draft. See id. at 2. After three and a half years in Philadelphia, Noel was traded to the Dallas Mavericks during the middle of the 2016-17 NBA season. I

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Lisa Jones, et al. v. Monsanto Company

Kansas City, Missouri personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a class action product liability theory.

laintiffs filed suit in February 2019, pleading multiple claims arising out of
the allegedly deceptive labelling of Roundup products manufactured by Monsanto.
Specifically, Roundup products bore a label indicating that the active ingredient,
glyph

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United States of America v. William Sadleir

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

William Sadleir was indicted for his participation in two fraudulent schemes relating to investments made by a New York-based investment fund (the “Fund”) in Aviron Pictures, LLC and its affiliated entities (collectively, “Aviron”). Sadleir previously pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud, one relating

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United States of America v. Federico Luna

Cedar Rapids criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with
Possessing a Firearm and Ammunition as a Felon

Evidence at the sentencing hearing showed that Luna sped through a residential area in Cedar Rapids while leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase. During the chase, he threw a backpack out of the window of the car. That backpack contained a loaded firearm, false U.S.

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STATE OF KANSAS v. TY R. ZEINER

Topeka, KS – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a driving while under the influence (DUI) charge.



Ty Zeiner was convicted of driving while under the influence (DUI)
after he was found by Deputy Starkey asleep in the driver's seat of his SUV and parked
alongside a gravel road. Because the district cour

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United States of America v. Eduardo Barbosa Lopez

Portland Oregon criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with supplying large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin to a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization operating in the Portland Metropolitan Area.

Eduardo Barbosa Lopez, 44, also known as Barbas, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release.

Beginning in 2018, two men, Samu

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United States of America v. Jaswinder Singh

Sacramento, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted obstruction of an official proceeding.

Jaswinder Singh, age 60, of Los Angeles, California, contacted a trial witness in a pending federal criminal case and instructed the witness to lie to law enforcement as a trial date approached. The witness knew that Singh and others had participated in a conspiracy t

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State of Oklahoma v. Kimberly Jean Stealer

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Obtaining Property By Trick/Deception or False Representation/ Pretense

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, OBTAINING PROPERTY BY TRICK/DECEPTION OR FALSE REPRESENTATION /PRETENSE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1500-1545,1550.42,1631-1674
Date of Offense: 08/28/2021
Party Name Disposition Information<

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State of Oklahoma v. Tiffany Ann Hooper and Jan Rochelle Guenthner

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Identify Theft

Count # 1. Count as Filed: IDT, Identity Theft, in violation of 21 O.S. 1533.1
Date of Offense: 04/14/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
HOOPER, TIFFANY ANN Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/20/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: Identity Theft(IDT)
Violation of 21

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United States of America v. Rufo Gonzalez


Rufo Gonzalez appeals from an April 24, 1984 judgment of the District Court for the Southern District, Charles S. Haight, Jr., Judge, convicting him, following a February 15, 1984 jury verdict, of thirteen counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1343 (1982) and one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1341 (1982). Gonzalez also appeals from Judge Haight's April 11, 1

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United States of America v. Matthew Steven Miller

St. Louis, Missouri criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally prescribing an anti-anxiety drug.

Matthew Steven Miller, 43, wrote prescriptions for the drug Xanax for six people who were not his patients between 2016 and 2018. Miller had not examined them, knew they didn’t have a legitimate medical need for the drug and knew the drug would be sold or abused, Assistant

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United States ex rel Swanton v. Zou, et al.

Denver, Colorado criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of the False Claims Act.

Instec Inc. (Instec), located in Boulder, Colorado, and Dr. Zhong Zou, Instec’s owner and president, have agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that the company and Zou violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with the requirements of the Buy American Act (BAA) when

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State of Oklahoma v. Sara Leann Smith

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Unlawfully Using A Computer Network For The Purpose Of Obtaining Money and Other Things Of Value By Use Of A False And Fraudulent Representation


Count # 1. Count as Filed: COMPU, UNLAWFULLY USING A COMPUTER NETWORK FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING MONEY AND OTHER THINGS OF VALUE BY USE OF A FALSE AND

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State of Oklahoma v. Leron Matthais Revan

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal 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. 1542 A
Date of Offense: 04/23/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
REVAN, LERON MATTHAIS Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/30/2022

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United States of America v. Mark Schena

San Jose, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to pay kickbanks and paying illegal kickbacks.

Mark Schena, 59, of Los Altos, California, served as the president of Arrayit Corporation. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Schena engaged in a scheme to defraud Arrayit’s

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United States ex rel. Simpson v. Bayer Corp.

Minneapolis, Minnesota qui tam lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on False Claims Act violations.

Bayer Corporation, an Indiana corporation and manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, and its related entities, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., Bayer HealthCare LLC and Bayer AG (collectively “Bayer”), agreed to pay $40 million to resolve alleged violations of the F

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Tavion Miley v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree manslaughter.


Tavion Miley has directly appealed from the judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court finding him guilty of first-degree manslaughter and first-degree robbery, and sentencing him to 18 years' imprisonment. On appeal, Miley challenges the orders denying his motion to suppress state

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United States of America v. Kimberly F. Jones

Louisville, Kentucky criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with embezzling funds from her employer and including false information on her tax returns.

Kimberly F. Jones, 53, was employed as an office manager at Guardian Retention Systems, LLC in Bullitt County, Kentucky. As office manager, she handled accounts payable and receivable, petty cash, payroll, and taxes. She also had el

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United States of America v. Jason E. Adkins

Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with orchestrating a $50 million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 50 investors.

Jason E. Adkins, 46, orchestrated a $50 million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 50 investors by soliciting victims from all over the country and around the world.

The victims in this case had their lives upended, the

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United States of America v. Janola Massaquoi

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements to a federal agency.

In March 2020 Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act which was designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the CA

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United States of America v. Okanlawon Azeez Egerongbe, aka Tony Kunle, Alex Tohee

Austin, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering.

Okanlawon Azeez Egerongbe, aka Tony Kunle, Alex Tohee, 37, of Round Rock, 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 roma

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United States, et al., ex rel. Respiratory Care., LLC v. Respironics, Inc., et al.

Charleston, South Carolina civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violation the False Claims Act.

Philips RS North America LLC, formerly known as Respironics Inc., a manufacturer of durable medical equipment (DME) based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay over $24 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it misled federal health care programs by p

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United States et al. ex rel. Bruce Carroll v. BSN Medical, Inc., et al.

Charlotte, North Carolina civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act.

Charlotte-based BSN Medical Inc. (BSN) has agreed to resolve allegations that it marketed and promoted various products that did not meet the Medicare or Medicaid program’s reasonable and necessary requirements, thereby causing the submission of false claims for payment

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United States of America v. Kenneth Gaughan

Washington, District of Columbia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.

Kenneth Gaughan, age 44, of Washington, D.C., who used the alias of Richard Strauski, pleaded guilty on March 2, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to three counts: one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in the PPP

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United States of America v. The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation

Albany, New York civil Litigation lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false reports.

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (“EFC”) has agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations that it falsely certified that several individuals were working at EFC in support of a federal water-quality improvement grant when, in fact, they were working directly for no

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