San Diego, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with 113 counts of hate crimes.

John T. Earnest, age 22, of Rancho Penasquitos pleaded guilty in federal court today to a 113-count hate crimes indictment, admitting that he set fire to an Escondido mosque and opened fire in a Poway synagogue because he wanted to kill Muslims and Jews. The religiously- and racially-motiv... More...   $0 (09-19-2021 - CA)

Los Angeles, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet.

Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was charged with one count of conspiracy to ... More...   $0 (09-19-2021 - CA)

Rapid City, South Dakota attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor using the Internet, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Kyle Garret Soto, age 34.

Soto was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 8, 2018, and was convicted by a jury following a week-long jury trial in Rapid City in April 2021. ... More...   $0 (09-18-2021 - SD)

Madison, WI: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud and money laundering.

Kenneth Zipperer, Wausau, Wisconsin, was charged for mail fraud and one count of money laundering.

On November 18, 2020, a federal grand jury sitting in Madison, Wisconsin returned a 26-count indictment against Zipperer charging him with five counts of mail fraud, ten count... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - WI)

Greenbelt, MD: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to advertise child pornography.

Eric Eoin Marques, 36, of Dublin, Ireland, pleaded guilty on Feb. 6, 2020 to conspiracy to advertise child pornography. According to court documents, between July 24, 2008 and July 29, 2013, Marques operated a free anonymous hosting service located on the dark web, an area ... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - MD)

New York, NY: Coercion and enticement and the promotion of prostitution criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Dwayne Anthony Conley, a/k/a "Taquan Rashad," exploited and victimized women for his financial gain. He coerced his victims into prostitution, including by physical abuse and exploiting a victim’s heroin addiction. For his wanton indifference to the suffering of his victims ... More...   $0 (09-12-2021 - NY)

Providence, RI: Coercing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct and to distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Ronald W. Zenger, 45, of Middletown, RI, while on actively serving in the U.S. Navy and following his retirement from active service coerced a minor to engage in illicit sexually behavior.

“Cases involving t... More...   $0 (09-12-2021 - RI)

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)

Wichita, KS: Production of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Frederick Martin, age 26.

Between August 2020 and October 2020, Frederick Martin, 26, of Sedgwick used his cell phone to communicate with a minor female via Snapchat and iMessage. He persuaded the teenage victim to record and send him sexually explicit images of herself. Martin also sent the victim photos of ... More...   $0 (09-09-2021 - KS)

Boise, ID: Distribution and possession of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Colton Dune Turner, age 20, of Middleton.

The investigation of Defendant's activities began after the online platform MeWe reported that three MeWe accounts had been used to distribute child pornography in July, August, and September 2019. An investigator with the Canyon County Prose... More...   $0 (09-09-2021 - ID)

Baltimore, MD: Production and possession of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brian Anthony Gilbert, 33, of District Heights, uploaded and advertised at least two video files of child pornography depicting an approximately seven-year-old female victim (Victim 1) on an online bulletin board dedicated to child pornography. The videos were approximately 10 minutes and ... More...   $0 (09-08-2021 - MD)

Minneapolis, MN: Production of sexually explicit images and videos of a minor criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Arkady Pavlovich Pichurin, age 26.

Between November 8, 2020, and January 8, 2021, Defendant sexually exploited a minor who was between the ages of nine and 10 years old at the time. He contacted the minor using a variety of instant messaging and texting services, i... More...   $0 (09-07-2021 - MN)

Kansas City, MO: Sending images and videos of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Joseph J. Balio, 36, of Utica, N.Y.

On Aug. 5, 2020, Balio pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography over the internet. Balio admitted that he sent a video that contained child pornography to Zachary T. Harbison, 35, of Liberty, Mo., on Dec. 25, 2017. The video file depict... More...   $0 (09-07-2021 - MO)

East St. Louis, IL: Downloading and sharing child pornography on the dark web criminal defense lawyer represented Kory R. Schulein, 37, of Sparta, Illinois, who first came to the attention to law enforcement in 2018
during an FBI investigation of child pornography on the dark web. Agents were able to track his
internet protocol address and executed a federal search warrant ... More...   $0 (09-06-2021 - IL)

Wilmington, NC: Conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Timothy Mark Harron, age 52, a Las Vegas resident, was indicted on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349; Aggravated Identity Theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A; a... More...   $0 (09-03-2021 - MD)

East St. Louis, IL: Knowingly receiving child sexual abuse material over the Internet criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kory R. Schulein, age 37.

Defendant of Sparta, pleaded guilty to knowingly receiving child pornography over the internet. Schulein first came to the attention to law enforcement in 2018 during an FBI investigation of child pornography on the dark web. Agents... More...   $0 (09-02-2021 - IL)

Alexandria, VA: Possession of child pornography criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, James B. Clawson Sr., 58, of Alexandria, was previously convicted of distribution of child pornography after law enforcement learned that he was serving as an administrator of an online forum dedicated to trafficking in child sexual abuse material. In 2019, while Clawson was serving a term of federal su... More...   $0 (08-30-2021 - VA)

Tacoma, WA: Wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cova Campbell, a former Pierce County Housing Authority executive, who was indicted for sealing nearly $7 million from her employer.

Campbell pleaded guilty in January 2021, admitting that between March 2016 and July 2019, she used a variety of schemes to divert $6.9 million in public money to her own bank accounts. A... More...   $0 (08-27-2021 - WA)