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United States of America v. Jose Fernandez

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false tax returns using stolen identities, using credit cards he obtained with stolen identities, and check fraud. He ultimately obtained more than $2 million in fraudulent funds, which he then used for his personal benefit.

“Fernandez committed a litany of frauds, including an attempt to steal millions o

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United States of America v. Jessica Joyce Spayd

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with r illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids outside the scope of legitimate medical practice that resulted in the deaths of five people between 2014 and 2019.

A jury convicted Jessica Joyce Spayd, age 52, on October 27, 2022, of 10 crimes including five counts of illegal drug distribution that resulted in de

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United States of America v. Lynda Charles, Rosie Bryant, Delois Bryant, Brenda Sherpell, Niki Charles, andd Everett Martindale

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the government in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371.

Seven defendants were sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of more than $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Chie

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United States of America v. Brijesh Goel

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with insider trading.

Britjesh Goel was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York, New York. In that position, GOEL received confidential, internal emails directed to Goldman Sachs’s Firmwide Capital Committee and Credit Markets Capital Committee, which contained detailed information and analysis abou

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United States of America v. Dr. Qing McGaha

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with 14 counts of unlawful drug distribution, 4 counts of money laundering, and 1 count of filing a false tax return.

Dr. Qing McGaha was a Florida-licensed medical doctor who owned and operated MD Care Clinic, a pain management clinic in Hillsborough County. Over a 20-month period, undercover agents with the Drug Enfor

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Mahisa Baker, et al. v. Solvay Specialty Polymers, U.S.A., LLC, et al.

Newark, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on product liability theory.

In March and June of 2022, Plaintiffs filed their complaints in the Superior Court of New Jersey, docketed as follows: Baker, et al. v. A. Clemente, Inc., et al., Case No. SLM-L-000098-22; Medford, et al. v. Clemente, Inc., et al., Case No. SLM-L-000046-22; Wilson v. Clemente, I

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William A. Hughes, II v. Team Car Care, LLC, d/b/a "Jiffy Lube"

St. Louis, Missouri civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an employment discrimination action.

Plaintiff William A. Hughes, II, brings this Title VII employment discrimination action against his former employer, defendant Team Car Care LLC, d/b/a Jiffy Lube, claiming he was denied promotion and was terminated on account of his race and in retaliation for engaging

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Ellen Rogers v. Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition, Inc.

Omaha, Nebraska civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant claiming to have been discriminated against in accommodations.


Upon consideration of the parties' joint request for entry of a Protective Order, (Filing No. 19), the Court enters the following Protective Order governing the disclosure of confidential Discovery Material by a Producing Party to a Receiving Par

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United States of America v. Charles St. George Kirkland

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with an eight-year tax fraud scheme that resulted in more than $50 million in illegal tax refunds.

Charles St. George Kirkland pleaded guilty in January 2023 to three counts of aiding or assisting the filing of fraudulent tax documents. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John H. Chun rejected the defen

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United States of America v. Anton Panin, Jennie Lawson, Tracey Lawson and Viktoriia Zakirova

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to operate a prostitution enterprise called XO Companions, or XOC.

Panin, age 40, of Hollywood, Florida, Jennie Lawson, age 37, of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, Tracey Lawson, age 57, of Thomasville, Pennsylvania, and Viktoriia Zakirova, age 32, of Miami, Florida. were charged with conspiring to tra

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Reynaldo Gonzalez, et al. v. Google, LLC

In 2015, ISIS terrorists unleashed a set of coordinated attacks across Paris, France, killing 130 victims, including
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U. S. citizen.1 Gonzalez’s parents and brothers then sued Google, LLC, under 18
U. S. C. §§2333(a) and (d)(2), alleging that Google was both directly and secondarily liable for the terrorist attack that killed Gonzalez.2 For their seconda

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United States of America v. Arthur Williams and Sean Williams

Central Islip, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Arthur Cornwall, a signal maintainer with the New York City Transit Authority, and Sean Williams, a New York State Court Officer, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with their receipt of approximately $770,000 in small business loans under the P

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United States of America v. Howard Weiss

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing a controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice, for structuring financial transactions in a way to evade reporting requirements, and for engaging in monetary transactions greater than $10,000 that were derived from unlawful activity.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DE

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United States of America v. Chris E. McCormick

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and money laundering.

In May 2020, in the District of Utah and elsewhere, Chris E. McCormick, 64, of Cottonwood Heights, illegally made false representations to Mountain America Credit Union to obtain approximately $266,000 in PP

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United States of America v. Austin Nolan Dwight Rutherford

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with theft, embezzlement and misapplication of funds by a Person Connected in a Capacity with a Bank and Credit Union.

Austin Nolan Dwight Rutherford, 29, of Juneau plead guilty to Bank and Credit Union Theft. Between January 21, 2019, and March 2022, Rutherford was an armed transport guard for Axiom Armored Transpor

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United States of America v. Willie Mitchell, aka Blu Mitchell, Sean Swaringer, Kimberly Coleman, and Jason Coleman

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, a federal loan initiative designed to help businesses pay their employees and meet expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Willie Mitchell, Sean Swaringer, Kimberly Coleman, and Jason Coleman pleaded guilty

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Linda Taylor, et al. v. Wesley Taylor

Owensboro, Kentucky personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory.

Linda Taylor sued her son, Wesley Taylor, for negligence in Daviess County, Kentucky, where she lives. Mr. Taylor, a West Virginian, removed and moved for summary judgment. Ms. Taylor alleges that while helping her son put his home on the market, she tried to brea

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A.A. v. Warsaw Community School Corporation

South Bend, Indiana civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Equal Protection and Title VI theories.

Kasha Harris filed suit on behalf of her daughter, A.A., a high school student who was asked to go to the back of the school bus line after repeatedly cutting the line the same week. Ms. Harris alleges the actions of the school bus driver were motivated by racial an

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United States of America v. Thein Maung and Phyo Mi

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing hundreds of fraudulent tax returns and of defrauding applicants out of unemployment insurance benefits and the Iowa Workforce Development out of benefits payments.

On May 22, 2023, Thein Maung, 47, pleaded guilty to 49 fraud and tax charges. On June 2,

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United States of America v. Jerry D. Elkins

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with raudulently obtaining $94,197.93 of federal abandoned mine land (AML) remediation sub-grant funds while employed by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

From on or about April 2017 until on or about August 7, 2019, Jerry D. Elkins, age 54, of Daniville, West Virginia, assisted

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United States of America v. Crystal A. Huang

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with devising a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtain money and property, under false pretenses, to benefit her company, ProSky Inc.

Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, admitted she knowingly offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises to potential investors. From February 20

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Marciano Briones v. Adams County, et al.

Denver, Colorado civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on deliberate indifference theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.


On September 9, 2016, Marciano Briones was booked into the Adams County Detention Facility in Adams County, Colorado after being found guilty of driving under the influence. Docket No. 171 at 2, ¶¶ 1-2. On December 25, 2016, Mr. Briones felt ill

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United States of America v. Kenyatta Phipps

Rochester, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Kenyatta Phipps, ate 46, of Rochester, New York, filed a federal income tax return for the tax year 2019, reporting wages and interest income of $13,273.00, which resulted in a refund of $696. In August 2020, Phipps attempted four times to file a second 2019 federal income tax return on which he f

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United States of America v. Marisa Beck

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $360,000 in COVID-19 relief funding intended for endangered small businesses.

Marisa Beck, age 40, of Spokane, was accused of fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds.

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Sec

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United States of America v. Rudolph Ferrucci

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with concealing business income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and paying restaurant employees under the table.

Rudolph Ferrucci, 65, of Plymouth, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of failure to collect and pay over employee taxes. A plea hearing has not yet been sched

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