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United States of America v. Austin Nolan Dwight Rutherford

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing over $579,000 from three banks and two federal credit unions while serving as an armed transport guard.

Austin Nolan Dwight Rutherford, 29, was an armed transport guard for Axiom Armored Transport from January 2019 to March 2022. Axiom provided armed transportation of U.S. currency for several banks, cr

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Alana Marie Souza, et al. v. Brick House, Inc.

Eugene, Oregon intellectual property lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on a 15 U.S.C. 1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act) violation theory.

15 U.S.C. 1125 provides:

(1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any

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United States of America v. Alvin Pates

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns for two taxpayers for the calendar year 2015.

Beginning as early as July 2014 and continuing through at least April 2020, Alvin Pates, from San Diego, admitted that he used the names, social security numbers, and credit of the straw borrowers to

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United States of America v. Keith Berman

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding investors by making false and misleading statements about the purported development of a new, blood-based COVID-19 test, leading to millions of dollars in investor losses.

Keith Berman, 70, of Westlake Village, was the CEO and sole director of Decision Diagnostics Corp. (DECN), a public medic

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United States of America v. Thomas James Morford

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to pay over employee trust fund taxes and failure to file a federal tax return.

From 2015 to 2020, Thomas James Morford, 50, who operated a local concrete business, failed to pay $355,049 in employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This included the failure to pay taxes that he had colle

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United States of America v. Ryan T. Carruthers

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration and various banks out of approximately $851,000 as part of a pandemic relief fraud scheme.

Ryan Carruthers, 42, pleaded guilty in August 2023 to one count of wire fraud before United States District Judge Paul D. Borman. The guilty plea arose out of Carruthers’ p

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Ashley S. v. Social Security Administration

Newport News, Virginia social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for Social Security Benefits by HHS.


Plaintiff Ashley S. (“Plaintiff') filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), seeking judicial review of the final decision of Defendant Kilolo Kijakazi, the Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administ

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Darrell P. Harris v. Baltimore City Police Department, et al.

Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyer represent the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

Plaintiff was stopped by Ulmer and another Baltimore City Police Officer for improper use of his seatbelt. The record establishes that plaintiff was wearing his seatbelt improperly, having his "seatbelt across with my arm over it." After plaintiff was stopped, he

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United States of America v. Ye Wang

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

From approximately January 2021, through May 4, 2022, Ye Wang, 32, along with his co-defendants Si Liu, 36, and Yang Gao, 33, also of Norfolk, conspired to move and conceal proceeds obtained through prostitution. During the conspiracy, Gao, Wang, and Liu worked as ope

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Kraft Foods Global, Inc., et al. v. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. and Rose Acre Farms, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on auto-trust violation theories.

A group of food manufacturers filed a federal antitrust lawsuit about the production of eggs. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants agreed to export eggs, leaving fewer eggs for the domestic market. The exported eggs were then sold at lower prices than the the

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Perry Beeney et al. v. FCA U.S., LLC, et al.

Providence, Rhode Island consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on consumer protection, common law money had and received and unjust enrichment theories.

Plaintiffs' First Amended Class Action Complaint (hereinafter, the Complaint) alleges statutory consumer protection claims, common law money had and received claims, and unjust enrichment claims under Flor

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United States of America v. Lauren Michelle Owen

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion.

“Lauren Owen engaged in multiple fraudulent schemes, including taking advantage of her employer’s kindness solely to enrich her luxurious lifestyle at the expense of others,” stated U.S. Attorney Clinton Johnson. “This sentencing and restitution will show crimi

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P.L.F. v. Social Security Administration

Fort Wayne, Indiana social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the Social Security: RSI Tax Suits claim against her.

"Social Security benefits are generally exempt from federal income tax. This means that you do not have to pay federal income tax on the majority of your Social Security benefits. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule.

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United States of America v. Albert Morrison

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with accepting bribes from a local contractor and tax evasion.

Albert Morrison, age 62, was sentenced after pleading guilty before the Honorable Laurie Michelson to Conspiracy to Commit Federal Program Bribery from 2014 through 2018 and Tax Evasion.

Morrison was the elected President of the Madison Distri

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Donald Black, et al. v. Mantei & Associates, Ltd., et al.

Columbia, South Carolina civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on Securities Exchange Act violation theories under 15 U.S.C. 78m.

Mantei & Associates Ltd is a company that operates in the Accounting industry. It employs 1-5 people and has $0M-$1M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina.

Centaurus Financial, Inc. i

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United States of America v. Changpeng Zhao

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program under 31 U.S.C. 5318(h), 5322(b), 5322(c), and 5322(e), 18:2, and 31:1022.210 .

Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the entity that operates the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.com, pleaded guilty today and has agreed to pay

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Shiloh Williams v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al.

Charlotte, North Carolina personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on product liability theories.

"Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with operations in over 140

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John Rodgers Burnley v. Alexandra M. Valentin

Richmond, Virginia personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a civil rights racial discrimination theory.


Plaintiff is a Black resident of Richmond, Virginia. (Compl. ¶ 4, ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff purchased his home in 1999, at which time the other residents of his block were “98 per cent [B]lack [A]fro- [A]mericans ....” (Id.) The demographic ratio

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United States of America v. Joseph Cammarata

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tax evasion.

Joseph Cammarata, 49, of Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, was found guilty on November 15, 2023, on five counts of tax evasion following a two-week trial in the District of New Jersey before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan.

According to documents filed in this case and the evid

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United States of America v. Viliami Mosese Fatukala, Quynhmy Quoc Yamamoto, Iris June Micu Mina, and John Phillip Hollis II

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to distribute or possessing with intent to distribute cocaine.

Beginning in July 2019, Viliami Mosese Fatukala, Quynhmy Quoc Yamamoto, Iris June Micu Mina, and John Phillip Hollis II
conspired to sell cocaine. Fatukala advertised the sale of cocaine on the dark web. Yamamoto and Mina a

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United States of America v. Thomas Zolezzi

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing fraud to obtain almost $3 million intended to help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his plea agreement, Thomas Zolezzi of San Diego, admitted he submitted five loan applications containing false statements to trick lenders into providing the relief funds. He used the borrowed funds

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United States of America v. Bakou Kees Vonty

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with preparing, presenting, and making false tax returns.

Bakou Kees Vonty, 41, also known as Bob Vonty, prepared and filed hundreds of federal individual income tax returns on behalf of individual taxpayers, from approximately 2011 to 2022. On a 2019 tax return, Vonty, on behalf of an individual, falsely reported

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United States of America v. Gary E. Matthews

Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with five counts of mail fraud and 13 counts of money laundering.

A federal jury returned guilty verdicts after a day and a half of deliberations in the trial against Pere Marquette Hotel developers Gary E. Matthews, 81, of East Peoria, Illinois, and Monte J. Brannan, 70, of Peoria, Illinois. Matthews and Brannan

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United States of America v. Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tax evasion.

After a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson, the jury unanimously convicted Barrett of one count of tax evasion. Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett, age 49, of Baton Rouge, a physician, owned and operated an urgent care clinic known as Stat Care Clinics, L.L.C. d/b/a Central S

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United States of America v. Irina Dilkinska

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Irina Dilkinska elected to plead guilty to her participation in a massive OneCoin fraud scheme.

In 2014, RUJA IGNATOVA, a/k/a “the Cryptoqueen,” and KARL SEBASTIAN GREENWOOD co-founded OneCoin,[1] a company based in Sofia, Bulgaria, that marketed a purported cryp

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