False Pretense Law
 
In re the Marriage of PEDRO AVILES and JESSICA VULOVIC.

Riverside, California family law lawyers represented the parties seeking a divorce.

In October 2006, Jessica filed a petition for a divorce from her then-husband,
Alexander Vulovic. She believed that she would be divorced automatically six months
after filing the petition.

In October 2007, Pedro and Jessica began dating. They were married in Las
Vegas in March 2011.

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United States of America v. Jason Nielsen

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with securities fraud.

Jason Nielsen, 48, of Scotts Valley, was a large shareholder of Arrayit, a publicly traded medical device company based in California. From approximately 2019 through April 2020, Nielsen engaged in an unlawful “scalping” and “spoofing” scheme to manipulate the price of Arrayit se

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United States of America v. Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, a/k/a "The Monkey Whisperer"

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and violating the Endangered Species Act.

Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, age 58, of Parrish, Florida, owned and operated The Monkey Whisperer, LLC, a business engaged in the breeding and selling of wildlife. From September 2017 until February 2018, Hammonds conspired to sell a capuchin mon

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Oral "Nick" Hillary v. Mark Murray and Edward Tischer

Albany, New York civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued defendants on false arrest theories.

Oral "Nick" Hillary was charged, arrested and tried for killing his ex-girlfriends 12-year-old son, Tandy Cyrus, who was found strangled to death. He claimed that he was targeted because he was black. He was acquitted of murder at a nonjury trial in 2016 in St. Lawrence County Court

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United States of America v. Joe David "Jay" May

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with engaging in a multi-million-dollar kickback conspiracy.

Dr. Joe David "Jay" May, age 41, got involved in a multi-million-dollar kickback conspiracy.

“Dr. May used his signature as a rubber stamp to help his friends rake in millions of dollars in kickbacks from fraudulent prescriptions,” said Jona

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Myrna de Jesus v. UnitedHealth Group

Phoenix, Arizona pro se Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a breach of contract theory.


Plaintiff brings several claims. The first is for defamation. She alleges that Defendant published the false allegations against her to several third parties, such as the “Arizona Department of Economic Services, prospective employers, her co-workers, and her alma mater schools . . . .” (Id. at

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State of Oklahoma v. Tiron Maurice Washington

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Possession of a Firearm AFCF

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OWPN, POSSESSION OF A FIREARM AFCF, in violation of 21 O.S. 1283
Date of Offense: 05/27/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
Washington, Tiron Maurice Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/01/2022. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Dis

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United States of America v. Paul Andrecola

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with selling pesticides that he called were were registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as being effective against coronavirus.

Paul Andrecola, 63, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Robert B. Kugler in Camden federal court to an information charging him with one

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United States of America v. Aleta Necole Thomas

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraudulently making application for Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the CARES Act.

Aleta Necole Thomas, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements to a financial institution.

In her plea agreement, Thomas stated that on May 27, 2020,

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United States of America v. David F. Alexander

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statements.

David F. Alexander, 54, of Arcadia, who served as LADWP’s chief information security officer from May 2017 until February 2019, and then served as the department’s chief cyber risk officer for the next six months, pleaded guilty on February 8 to one count of making false stateme

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United States of America v. Aleta Necole Thomas

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statements to a financial institution.

Aleta Necole Thomas, 43, admitted in her plea agreement that she submitted false statements and reports to Cross River Bank when she applied for a Paycheck Protection Program loan — guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the federal CARES Act —

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United States of America v. Soaries Maxine Peterson, M.D.

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with health care fraud.

Soaries Maxine Peterson, M.D., 68, billed Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield for services that she did not perform. Dr. Peterson admitted that she billed for office visits for patients who came to her office, often to obtain monthly prescriptions for controlled substances, whe

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United States of America v. James Heritage

Hot Springs, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with with fraud committed against the United States Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and numerous state unemployment benefits administrators.

James Heritage, age 39, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, applied for and received a PPP loan for $183,937.32, using falsified employee and payrol

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Nicholas Mims v. Six Flags of America

Upper Marlboro, Maryland personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a false imprisonment theory.

Nicholas Mims, of Prince George's county sued Six Flags of America to handcuffing him when he refused to obey the demands of as security guard who ordered him to put on a shirt as he frantically searched for him missing son.

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Karl Fontenot v. Scott Crow

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, robbery and murder.


Petitioner-appellee Karl Fontenot was twice tried and found guilty of the 1984 kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Donna Haraway in Ada, Oklahoma. Almost no evidence connected him to the crime other than his own videotaped confession, a confession that "rang false in almo

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State of Oklahoma v. Courtney Sasha Smith, a/k/a Courtney Osborn

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Embezzlement

Count # 1. Count as Filed: EMB, EMBEZZLEMENT, in violation of 21 O.S. 1451 A
Date of Offense: 08/16/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
SMITH, COURTNEY SASHA Disposed: DISMISSED, 05/31/2022. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Disposed: EMBEZZLEMENT(EMB)
Violat

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State of Oklahoma v. Michael Dewayne Scott

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Unauthorized use of a vehicle.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA3, UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A VEHICLE, in violation of 47 O.S. 4-102
Date of Offense: 03/21/2018
Party Name Disposition Information
SCOTT, MICHAEL DEWAYNE Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/02/2022. Dismissed- Prosecution Witness Failed to Appear<

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State of Missouri vs. Jeffery Jerome Millens, Jr.

St. Louis, MO - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and the unlawful possession of a firearm charges.



In the light most favorable to the verdict, the following facts were adduced
at trial: On December 31, 2016, Millens atte

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United States of America v. FCA US LLC (FCA US), formerly Chrysler Group LLC

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and customers by making false and misleading representations about the design, calibration, and function of the emissions control systems on more than 100,000 Model Year 2014, 2015, and 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 diesel vehicles, and about these vehicles’ emission of pol

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State of Florida v. Allen Barry Buford and Alayna Marie Hesler

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted sexual battery upon a childless than 12.

1 794.011.2A ATTEMPTED SEXUAL BATTERY UPON CHILD LESS THAN 12 01/19/2022 Court:Adjudicated Guilty
2 794.011.2A ATTEMPTED SEXUAL BATTERY UPON CHILD LESS THAN 12 01/19/2022 Court:Adjudicated Guilty
3 800.04.5AB LEWD LASC MOLEST OF CHILD DEF 18 VICTIM UNDER 12

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State of Florida v. Nicholas James Trench

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Nicholas James Trench was charged with murder to killing his grandmother, age 77, and decapitating her.

1 782.04.2 MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE 05/23/2022 Court:
2 872.06 ABUSE DEAD HUMAN BODY 05/23/2022 Court:
3 806.01.1 ARSON OF A DWELLING OR BUILDING PEOPLE PRESENT 05/23/2022

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United States of America v. Michael Godfree

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with defrauding over 100 investors out of more than $8 million through a scheme that sold “ancient slag,” a mining waste byproduct that supposedly contained precious metals.

Michael Godfree, 80, a United Kingdom citizen who resides in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, was sentenced

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United States of America v. Darwin Thomas and Phillip Flores

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with conspiracy to transfer firearms to an out-of-state resident and to provide false statements during the purchase of firearms.

arwin Thomas, age 34, and Phillip Flores, age 37, both of Los Angeles, California, were charged with conspiracy to transfer firearms to an out-of-state resident and to provide fals

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United States of America v. Rodney L. Yentzer

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act.

Between 2017 and 2019, Rodney L. Yentzer, of Cumblerland County, through a group of pain clinics he controlled known as Pain Medicine of York (PMY), caused the submission of false claims for payment to Medicare. Those claims were for presumptive and definitive Urine Drug Tes

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State of Missouri vs. BRANDON PATRICK TEEL

St. Louis, MO - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a controlled substance charge.



Brandon Patrick Teel (“Defendant”) appeals his conviction for possessing a
controlled substance. See section 579.015, RSMo 2016. Defendant’s sole point on
appeal claims th

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