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United States of America v. Alexander S. Rowland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.

Alexander S. Rowland, 30, formerly of Penns Grove, NJ, was sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $2.1 million restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Karen Spencer Marston, for d

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STEVEN SOMERS

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with unlawful possession of a firearm as an unlawful user of controlled substances charges.



Under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3E1.1(a) (2018), a district court may
decrease a criminal defendant’s offense level by 2 levels if the defendant “clearly

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MURRAY ROJAS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with causing prescription animal drugs to become misbranded charge.



We write solely for the parties and so recite only the facts necessary to our
disposition. Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse racing regulations include the following
rule: “A person acti

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES DAVIS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charge.



Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. (“Reach”), an advertising
company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. (“RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business.
Since 1989, Reach publis

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United States of America v. Glen Zinszer

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

Glen Zinszer, age 51, of Liverpool, New York, was indicted for committing wire fraud and willfully filing false tax returns.

Zinszer admitted that he began operating the Brazzlebox company in 2012, which he represented to investors would be like a Facebook for business. Beginning in April 20

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MAHMOUD AGUIBI

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with five counts of Hobbs Act robbery, and two counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to two of the robberies chargse.



In the fall of 2015, Aguibi robbed ten deliverymen at gunpoint in Philadelphia. He
pleaded guilty in the

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JERRY FRUIT

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Jerry Fruit with a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine charge.



In October 2020, Fruit filed a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C.
§ 3582(c)(1)(A). He sought release from prison because of an alleged h

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CHRISTOPHER SANCHEZ v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Christopher Sanchez with UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR RECEIPT OF A FIREARM OR AMMUNITION BY A PROHIBITED PERSON charge.



While on vehicular patrol, Detective Gaetan Robert MacNamara recognized
Christopher Sanchez behind the wheel of an SUV. MacNamara and Sanchez ha

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United States of America v. Benjamin Rafael

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in two frauds: the first, a scheme to steal over $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows; the second, concealing his criminal history on applications for COVID-19 relief loans.

Benjamin Rafael, 31, of South Florida, previously admitted his role in legiti

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ANGEL FERRER, a/k/a STRANGE

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with District Court’s order denying his motion for a sentence reduction charge.



The Fair Sentencing Act raised the drug-quantity thresholds needed to trigger
certain mandatory-minimum sentences. Pub. L. No. 111-220, § 2, 124 Stat. 2372, 2372
(2010). W

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CALIPH BARR

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Caliph Barr with a possessing a firearm as a felon charge.



In 2015, a jury convicted Caliph Barr for possessing a firearm as a felon in
violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). Under our precedent at that time, to
obtain a felon-in-possession

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United States of America v. Joel Jerome Tucker

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in two separate fraud schemes related to millions of dollars in false payday loan debt and for tax evasion totaling more than $8 million.

“After raking in millions of dollars from the victims of his fraud scheme, the defendant lied repeatedly and used every trick in the book to hide his ill-gotten

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United States of America v. GARTOR KIKI BROWN

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with the District Court’s dismissal of several of his claims and the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants.



Brown was arrested in August 2015.1
Detective Raymond Blohm of the Upper
Darby Police Department subsequently obtained a search warra

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USA v. Robert Caesar

Philadelphia, PA- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with federal child pornography charge.



The evidence at issue was gathered by State Police
officers pursuant to three search warrants while investigating
Caesar for various sexual offenses involving minors. Because
our Fourth Amendment inquiry turns on

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Jorge Valarezo-Tirado v. Attorney General United States

Philadelphia, PA - Immigration lawyer represented defendant with a review of an Immigration Judge’s reinstatement of his prior order of removal charge.



Jorge Luis Valarezo-Tirado, an Ecuadorian citizen,
entered the United States illegally in 2017. He was
subsequently detained by DHS, and in January 2020, DHS3
r

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. SHAMMAR BRAGGS

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a felony drug charge.



The district court made the following factual findings at the close of a twoday evidentiary hearing: Shammar Braggs was recently released on parole after
serving time in prison for the criminal sale of a controlled substance. Whil

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JEREMY REICHBERG, also known as Jeremiah Reichberg, also known as Yermy Reichberg

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with honest services wire
fraud, and 2; conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, and 3; payment of bribes and gratuities; conspiracy to pay bribes and gratuities, and obstruction of justice charge.




Defendant-Appellant Jeremy Reichberg ran a bu

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSE MOYHERNANDEZ, AKA YINDO

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to
distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, more than 50 grams of cocaine base charge.



In 1996, Jose Moyhernandez sold (to a confidential informant) about 90
grams of crack cocaine and a semi-automatic pistol. In 2000, a jur

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United States v. Willis, et al

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple drug and gun-related count charges.



28 Larry Willis and Isiah Pierce appeal from judgments of conviction entered
29 following a three-day trial in the United States District Court for the Western
30 District of New York (Vilardo, J.). The

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JEREMY REICHBERG, also known as Jeremiah Reichberg, also known as Yermy Reichberg

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple bribery and obstruction of justice charges.



Jeremy Reichberg was a self-styled Brooklyn “liaison” to the
NYPD,2 in the business of selling preferred outcomes to encounters
with law enforcement. Reichberg’s business model functioned b

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UNITED STATES v. IDALIA MALDONADO-PEÑA

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, cocaine base (aka crack), marijuana, and prescription pill charges.



These appeals arise from the drug conspiracy and
distribution convictions of five members of a vast drug trafficking
organization. Operating pri

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United States of America v. JOHN H. NARDOZZI

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to defraud the
United States and eight counts of aiding or assisting in the filing of a false tax return charges.



Before his indictment in 2018, Nardozzi was a Certified
Public Accountant ("CPA") with over forty years' experience.
Beginning

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United States of America v. Leonid Teyf

New Bern, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bribing a public official, visa fraud and false statements in relation to foreign financial interests.

Leonid Teyf, 59, a Russian national formerly residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for bribery of a public official, visa fraud, and false statements in relation

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United States of America v. Karl Burden-El Bey

Newport, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, theft of government funds, and failing to file federal income tax returns.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, from at least 2013 through 2019, Karl Burden-El Bey prepared false tax returns for clients. On his clients’ returns

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United States of America v. Thomas Del Borrello

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false currency reports in connection with a vast, multi-million dollar scheme to defraud the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market (Market) in South Philadelphia, perpetrated by the Market’s President and CEO Caesar DiCrecchio.

Thomas Del Borrello, 42, of Sewell, NJ, was indicted for filing fal

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