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United States of America v. Leith Sukkar

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statement during acquisition of a firearm.

Leith Sukar, age 22, of Merrimack, was arrest for making a false statement during the purchase of a Glock model 29, 10mm pistol and a Glock model 43, 9mm pistol from Shooter’s Outpost, a federally licensed firearms dealer, located in Hooksett, New Ham

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United States of America v. William Mark Sullivan and Michelle Cadman-Sullivan

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraudulently applying for approximately $2.7 million in Paycheck Protection Program Loans. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the CARES Act.

William Mark Sullivan, 49, and his wife, Michelle Cadman-Sullivan, 42, each pleaded guilty to Conspiracy

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United States of America v. Keith Hunter

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with engaging in tax evasion.

Keith Hunter, 65, an attorney from Louisville, Kentucky, evaded the payment of federal income taxes, penalties, and interest due and owing by him to the United States, for the calendar years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2011, totaling $1,124,620 by concealing assets in various way

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United States of America v. Michael Avenatti

Santa Ana, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud four of his legal clients.

Michael Avenatti pleaded guilty to five felony offenses and admitted that he engaged in a scheme to defraud four of his legal clients.

Avenatti, who has been suspended by the State Bar of California, specifically pleaded guilty to f

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United States of America v. Juan Carlos Rubio

Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with Conspiracy to Smuggle Goods from the United States, Smuggling Goods from the United States, False Statements in Connection with Acquisition of Firearm, and Aiding and Abetting False Statements in Connection with Acquisition of Firearm.

In early 2020, Rubio, a former Arizona Department of Corrections Officer, conspi

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United States of America v. Kyle William Brenizer

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.

Kyle William Brenizer, 33, was the owner and manager of True-Cut Construction LLC (“True-Cut”), a contracting and construction company located in Brooklyn Park. In August 2018, True-Cut and Brenizer were ordered by the Minnesota Department of Labor and

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State of Oklahoma v. Micki Joan McNerney

Norman, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with postponement of payment for labor due in violation of 21 O.S. 1627, which provides:

Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud, shall obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal services theretofore performed, by

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State of Oklahoma v. Kayli Jade Dean

El Reno, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, FALSE PERSONATION, in violation of 21 O.S. 1531(4)
Date of Offense: 01/16/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
DEAN, KAYLI JADE Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/13/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: FALSE PERSONATION(FFP)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1531(4)
Count # 2

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United States of America v. Michelle M. Rousseff-Kemp

Fort Wayne, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with
falsifying a document and illegally storing hazardous waste.

Michelle M. Rousseff-Kemp, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was the president and owner of a Fort Wayne, Indiana, business which held itself out as an environmental services company providing comprehensive waste management services. Among other things, th

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United States of America v. Simon Saw-Teong

Fayetteville, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making a false statement to the FBI about the existence of patents for his inventions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 64, of Fayetteville, filed 24 patents in the PRC which bear Ang’s name or Chinese birth name. The University of Arkansas, where Ang worked as a professor, re

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United States of America v. Joseph A. Cipolletti

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud and false statement under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding.

The former Vice President of Discovery Tours Inc., a business located in Mayfield Village, Ohio, that offered educational trips for grade school and high school students, pleaded guilty to devising a scheme to take p

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United States of America v. Aleta Necole Thomas

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with charged with applying for almost $800,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the CARES Act.

Aleta Necole Thomas, 43, pleaded guilty to making false statements to a financial institution and engaged in aggravated identity theft.

“Individuals who ste

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United States of America v. Dr. Kevin L. Crandell

Oxford, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with failing to pay taxes.

According to court documents, and evidence presented at trial, Dr. Kevin L. Crandell, of Golden, Mississippi, was an emergency room physician who earned $30,000 to $40,000 per month and stopped paying personal income taxes in 2007. During the years 2006 through 2012, Crandell accrued appro

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United States of America v. Guy Telfort

Miami, Florida criminal defense 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, previously owned and operated Tax Houses and Accounting Services, a Lauderdale Lakes tax preparation business. From approximately January 201

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United States of America v. Harley E. "Buddy" Barnes, III

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with a a multimillion-dollar, high-yield investment fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims. In addition, another individual who sold EarthWater securities pleaded guilty today to one charge related to the investment fraud scheme.

Harley E. “Buddy” Barnes III, 63, of Plano, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, frau

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United States of America v. David Cortez Marshall

Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud.

Former Orangeburg School District Employee David Cortez Marshall was indicted for defrauding the Orangeburg County School District of over $550,000.

“Fraud of any nature is illegal and wrong, but fraud against a public school – in the middle of a pandemic – is unconscionable,” said

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United States of America v. Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with obstructing justice, making false statements and accepting money and gifts for official acts.

Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels was a veteran NCIS special agent working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. There, she met Nadal Diya, a Syrian businessman living in Dubai looking for help in securing a visa to the United Stat

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In re: Aaron K. Lucas and Jessic B. Lewis, Debtors

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma bankruptcy lawyer represented debtors who sought Chapter 7 Bankruptcy discharge.

On January 5, and February 14, and 15, 2022, a video-conference trial was conducted in the above-captioned adversary proceeding. The issues before the Court are set forth in the Final Pretrial Order [Doc. 56], entered on November 19, 2021. Plaintiffs Frank Hill ("Dr. Hill") an

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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. KEVIN XAVIER DICKERSON STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, v. ARIANNA CHERELLE REECY

Pierre, SD - Criminal Defense lawyer represented co-defendants with robbery and burglary and also aggravated assault charges.



Arianna Reecy worked as an exotic dancer at a bar in Lesterville,
South Dakota. In July 2019, Reecy, who went by the name “Kisses,” met Julio
Gomez Rojas at t

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United States of America v. Mark Godding and Linda Godding

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with selling unapproved new and misbranded drugs to treat serious medical conditions through their online business.

In December of 2016, Mark Godding and Linda Godding purchased the business Mighty Stacks, LLC. In January 2017, Mighty Stacks, LLC, did business through Blue Brain Boost and sold products through the web

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United States of America v. James A. Sakr, M.D.

Buffalo, New York civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by frudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid for procedures that were not medically necessary or that he did not perform.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Coriell, who handled the case, stated that from at least January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2019, Dr. Sakr, an ear, nose, and thro

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United States of America v. George Vasiliades

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with manipulating his payroll to evade over $1.8 million in taxes.

In December 2021, George Vasiliades, 58, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of failure to collect, account for and pay over federal employment taxes; 17 counts of aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns; and one count of making a false stat

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United States of America v. Steward Health Care System, LLC

Boston, Massachusetts civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act.

Steward Health Care System LLC (Steward) and several related corporate entities have agreed to pay approximately $4.735 million to resolve allegations that its relationships with several physicians and physician practice groups violated federal law, including the False Claims Ac

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United States of America v. Jason Metz

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distributing heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and crack.

In May 2020, the DEA New Haven Task Force and Waterbury Police Department began an investigation into a drug trafficking organization that was distributing large amounts of heroin, cocaine and crack in the Waterbury area, and was believed to be headed by Zach

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United States of America v. Jerome Walter Kiggundu

Augusta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank and bankruptcy fraud related to his purchase of an Augusta apartment complex.

Jerome Walter Kiggundu, 38, now a resident of Commerce City, Colo., was sentenced to 48 months in prison after his conviction in a jury trial in December 2021 on charges of Bank Fraud, Bankruptcy Fraud, and False Statements Under O

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