Council Bluffs, Iowa false statements in connection with Federal Crop Insurance charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Andrew J. Fisher, age 55.

Fischer obtained crop insurance for the crop years 2012, 2014, and 2017 through the United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency’s Federal Crop Insurance Program. Fisher then submitted fraudulent insurance claim... More...   $0 (09-17-2021 - IA)

Springfield, IL: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Wayne H. Kruger, 73, of Litchfield, Illinois, was charged for defrauding several banks in Central Illinois.

Kruger pleaded guilty to three counts of bank fraud on February 22, 2021. According to court documents, Kruger admitted that beginning in December 2010 and continuing through about May 2... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - IL)

Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud involving the distribution of illegal products falsely labeled as dietary supplements.

Anthony ”Joey” Ventrella, 43, of Boynton Beach, joined several alleged co-conspirators in committing mail and wire fraud, as well as defrauding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by using dishonest methods to preven... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - FL)

Norfolk, VA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged counterfeiting fraudulent coupons.

“These two defendants have been sentenced and held accountable for operating one of the largest coupon fraud schemes ever discovered in the United States, resulting in over $31 million in losses to victims across the country,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Dist... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - VA)

Knoxville, TN: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

James Waylon Howell, 39, currently of Knoxville, Tennessee, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

As part of the written plea agreement, Howell waived an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury and agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire ... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - TN)

Lexington, KY: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with r conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in furtherance of a crop insurance fraud scheme.

Michael McNew, age 51, was a crop insurance adjuster until 2012, when he became a crop insurance agent. According to his plea agreement, in his role as an adjuster, he agreed with agricultural producers to inflate or fabricate the ... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - KY)

Columbus, OH: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

In January 2020, while on pretrial release, O’Kelly applied for employment at another bank and once again falsely represented a Social Security number as his own.

Once employed at the banks, O’Kelly accessed and obtained the banking information of multiple customers to initiate unauthorized p... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - OH)

Tyler, TX: Elder wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Monica Ruiz, age 45, who enlisted a variety of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises in a scheme to defraud an elderly victim from Bullard, Texas. Among the various misrepresentations Ruiz made in order to obtain money from the victim were the following:

- That Ruiz had been in a coma;
... More...   $0 (09-15-2021 - TX)

Pittsburgh, PA: Theft of governmental funds and willful failure to file tax returns criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Louis Impell, age 58, of Pittsburgh.

Impell filed an application for Social Security benefits falsely claiming that he was disabled and had no income. In reality, however, Impell operated a successful home improvement company and was not disabled. As a result... More...   $0 (09-12-2021 - PA)

Oklahoma City, OK: Money laundering in an online Nigerian romance scam criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Afeez Adebara, age 36, of Norman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering on Nov. 3, 2020. According to court documents and testimony, between 2017 and November 2019, Adebara and co-conspirators knowingly concealed the proceeds of a romance scam operation by moving... More...   $0 (09-12-2021 - OK)

Atlanta, GA: Fraud with identification documents criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Bamidele Muraina, a Nigerian national who hacked into tax preparation firms and filed fraudulent unemployment benefit claims and tax returns using stolen personally identifiable information, and Gabriel Kalembo, a previously convicted fraudster who laundered the fraudulent assets, have been sentenced to... More...   $0 (09-11-2021 - GA)

Tallahassee, FL: Conspiracy to operate a racketeering enterprise criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, former Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox and his former business partner Paige Carter-Smith.

In December 2018, a federal grand jury charged then-City Commissioner Maddox and Carter-Smith in a 44-count indictment for conspiring to operate a racketeering enterprise that... More...   $0 (09-11-2021 - FL)

Orlando, FL: Conspiracy to possess access devices with intent to defraud and identity theft criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, Alessandro Doreus, age 28, of North Miami, Jean Elie Doreus Jovin, age 22, of Loganville, GA and Djouman Doreus, age 29, of North Miami.

From at least 2015 through 2020, Jovin, Alessandro Doreus, and Djouman Doreus conspired to knowingly, and with in... More...   $0 (09-11-2021 - FL)

Las Vegas, NV: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS as part of a fraudulent refund scheme.

Jabari Laquan Marshall, who was serving a federal prison sentence for a prior mortgage fraud conviction, and his brother Jalen Tony Henry devised a scheme to defraud the IRS. As part of the scheme, Marshall provided Henry with false documents and d... More...   $0 (09-09-2021 - NV)

Lexington, KY: Conspiracy to commit wire and health care fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants, Clinton Portis, Tamarick Vanover, and Robert McCune, who were indicted for participating in a scheme to defraud the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan (the Plan). The Plan was established pursuant to the NFL’s 2006 collective bargaining agreement and provided for t... More...   $0 (09-08-2021 - KY)

Santa Ana, CA: Telemarketing fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Gilbert N. Michaels, 79, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, 10 counts of mail fraud and five counts of money laundering.

Michaels owned and operated IDC Servco and Mytel International, companies that, with the assistance of boiler room operators, fraudulently sold toner... More...   $0 (09-08-2021 - CA)

Milwaukee, WI: Civil litigation false claims act violation lawyers represented Bell Therapy, Inc., and its parent company, Phoenix Care Systems, Inc., agreed to pay $390,080 to resolve allegations that they billed for services at the incorrect rates and billed for services not properly reimbursed, causing false claims for those services to be submitted to the Medicaid Program.

Bell Therap... More...   $390080 (09-07-2021 - WI)