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

Edward E. Bohm, age 44, from Smithtown, New York, formerly the President of Sales and part-owner of mortgage lender Vanguard Funding, LLC (Vanguard), based in Garden City, New York, was accused of diverting of more than $8.9 million of warehouse loans that Vanguard had fraudulently obtained purportedly to f

San Francisco, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with repeatedly sexually abusing an incarcerated female and then lying to federal agents about his misconduct.

James Theodore Highhouse, age 50, a former chaplain with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was employed by the BOP as a corrections worker and chaplain starting in 2016, and was assigned to work at Federa

Charleston, South Carolina civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating 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, agreed to pay over $24 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it misled federal health care programs by payi

Portland, Maine pro se Plaintiff, representing herself without a lawyer, sued Defendant on a civil rights violation theory.

Plaintiff alleges her constitutional rights were violated in connection with her arrest in January 2021. Defendant Auburn Police Department has moved to dismiss Plaintiff's complaint. Plaintiff did not file an opposition to the motion.

Following a

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Attempted Flse Pretense Over $1000

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, ATTEMPTED FALSE PRETENSE OVER $1000 OR CON GAME, in violation of 21 O.S. 1541.2
Date of Offense: 08/03/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
SLAYTON, MERISSA LANAE Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/22/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed:

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Falsely Personate Another TO Create Liabbility

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, FALSELY PERSONATE ANOTHER TO CREATE LIABILITY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1531.4
Date of Offense: 03/04/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
MILLER, LATASHA NICOLE Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/23/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as

Atlanta, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

De’reek Banks was accused of operating a scheme that caused approximately $48,000,000 in outstanding federal student loans to be fraudulently discharged by exploiting a program intended for disabled military veterans. Banks illegally pocketed about $891,000 in payments from more than 500 student loan borrowers.

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Falsely Personate Another To Create Liability

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, FALSELY PERSONATE ANOTHER TO CREATE LIABILITY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1531.4
Date of Offense: 11/02/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
STEVENS, COLTEN LEVI Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/10/2020. Guilty Plea
Count as Di

Wichita, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Kansas man on multiple charges for alleged crimes related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which is a federal law providing financial relief to businesses suffering economic losses because of the COVIID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the Small Business

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with leading and organizing two auto loan fraud schemes involving a total intended loss of more than $1.5 million.

Rick Benavidez, age 47, from Albuquerque, New Mexico pleaded guilty on April 29 to two counts of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of making fraudulent returns, state

Statesboro, Georgia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.

William Brett, from Bluffton, South Carolina, vaded taxes on income from various bars he co-owned near college campuses in Georgia. As part of the scheme, each establishment was nominally owned by a single individual. In reality, a group of business partners, including Britt, owned the bars in varying owne

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: IDT, Identity Theft, in violation of 21 O.S. 1533.1
Date of Offense: 10/08/2018
Party Name Disposition Information
BRIERTON, DARNESE LATORIA Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/25/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: Identity Theft(IDT)
Violation

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 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

Sioux City, Iowa criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with theft of government funds.

Margaret Ortega, age 45, from Sioux City, concealed her living arrangements with her husband, Hassan Ortega, by providing false statements to the SSA and the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS). In her statements, Ortega attested that Hassan was not part of her household and that she receiv

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with social security fraud.

In February 2020, a referral to the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Cooperative Disability Investigations Unit alleged that Tammy Jean Hogan, age 58, who served as representative payee for her husband, was concealing numerous properties the couple owned fro

Denver, Colorado criminal lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy engage in monetary transactions in proceeds of specified unlawful activity.

Reva Joyce Stachniw, 70, of Galesburg, Illinois, and Ron Throgmartin, 58, of Buford, Georgia, ran a Ponzi scheme from late 2017 until early 2019 by fraudulently representing to victim-investors tha

Chicago, Illinois criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms.

Kiana Martin, age 30, pleaded guilty on May 18, 2022, to misrepresenting to federally licensed firearms dealers that she was the actual transferee or buyer of firearms when, in fact, she was not the actual transferee or buyer of the firearms. In a p

making false statements to a bank and of bank fraud tied to fraudulent representations made in a mortgage refinance loan application.

Victor Makras, 64, of San Francisco, was charged in a superseding indictment filed on May 31, 2022. The four criminal counts related to a mortgage refinance loan obtained by an associate of Makras and the associate’s wife. Those four counts charged Makras

Nashville, Tennessee criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, failure to pay over employment taxes and filing a false income tax return.

Patrick Martin, 51, from Gainesboro, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in August 2021 to wire fraud, failure to pay over employment taxes, and filing a false income tax return.

According to Court documents, beginning in 2014, Mart

Washington, DC criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.

Zachary A. Friedman, of New York, New York, worked in the United Arab Emirates as a senior executive for a U.S. Department of Defense from 2013 to 2015 contracting company from 2013 to 2015 and evaded taxes he owed to the IRS by providing false information to his tax preparer that underreported the income he ea

Miami, Florida criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with criminal contempt for continuing to prepare and file tax returns with the IRS in violation of a federal court order barring him from doing so.

Guy Telfort, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, previously owned and operated Tax Houses and Accounting Services, a Lauderdale Lakes tax preparation business. From approximately January 20

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense 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: 06/25/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
GRAHAM, ERIC DON Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/18/2022. Guilty Plea

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for non-covered hospice services.

Familia Healthcare Services Inc. dba Del Cielo Hospice and Palliative Care knowingly submitted false claims from May 12, 2017, through Jan. 31, 2022. The claims allegedly involved hospice services for patients who were n

Dallas, Texas civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent lab claims to TRICARE and by knowingly concealing an obligation to repay the United States.

Dallas-based Cockerell Dermatopathology will pay $3,750,000 – including $1,875,000 in restitution – over the next 3 ½ years. Its owner and principal physician, Dr. C

Orlando, Florida criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with helping to execute a nationwide tax fraud scheme and attempting to prevent the IRS from recovering a fraudulent refund she received after filing a false tax return.

Rebecca Cyphers, 65, of Winter Springs, Florida, participated in a nationwide tax fraud scheme from at least September 2014 to May 2016. As part of the schem