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... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - UT)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with selling misbranded drugs online and obstruction of justice.

The chemical 2,4-Dinitrophenol (“DNPâ€�) has a variety of industrial and commercial uses, such as herbicides, dyes, and wood preservatives. In the 1930s, before federal law required drugs to be proven safe before they were marketed, DNP was u... More...   $0 (06-02-2023 - PA)

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... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - NY)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a multiyear scheme to evade the payment of payroll and income taxes on the wages of construction workers.

Melesio Gomez-Rivera, 49, of Aloha, Oregon, owned and operated a residential construction company called Novatos Construction. From January 2014 until December 2017, Gomez-Rivera and several other c... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - OR)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - NJ)

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... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - MA)

Atlanta, Georgia civil litigation lawyer represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

James Ellner, M.D., and his Woodstock, Georgia pain management practice, Georgia Pain Management, P.C., and ambulatory surgical center, Samson Pain Center, P.C, agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting improper claims t... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - GA)

Cedar City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.

Jacob Wayne Schmidt was accused of hitting a man he knew with a vehicle. The victim, age 37, was transported to the Cedar City Hospital after being hit by Schmidt's vehicle in the Home Depot Parking lot September 7, 2020 after a conflict between the two men.

Chad Dotson prosecuted the case.
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Wheeling, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining loans made available during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dalton Haas, also known as Dalton Nassar, 27, pled guilty to wire fraud in February 2023. Haas admitted to making false statements about the gross revenues, the cost of goods sold, and the number of employees for the Lebanese Restau... More...   $0 (05-24-2023 - WV)

Lake Charles, Louisiana insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on bad faith breach of insurance Contract theories.

This lawsuit arises from damages caused by Hurricane Laura on August 27, 2020, to Plaintiff Gregory Trahan's property at 2919 Broussard Rd., Sulphur, Louisiana 70665. Doc. 8, pp. 2, 5; doc. 15, p. 3. At the time of the loss, Plaintiff's property was i... More...   $0 (05-24-2023 - LA)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with numerous false and fraudulent applications that she filed to obtain funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program in 2020 and 2021.

Tiera R. Lands, age 30, agreed, as part of her guilty plea that she ow... More...   $0 (05-24-2023 - LA)

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud and identity theft charges in connection with stealing the identity of the owner of a Richmond auto shop, Lotsey & Hardy Tire Company.

According to court documents, around January 2022, Daniel Cruz, 30, obtained the owner’s personal information and used that information to take over the auto shop and it... More...   $0 (05-23-2023 - VA)

St. Louis, Missouri consumer fraud lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on violation of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act along with other Missouri statutory and common law claims.

Defendant manufactures, packages, distributes, and sells organic Tropical Treat Bunny Fruit Snacks (the “fruit snacksâ€�). Defendant packages and sells them in an opaque, “heavy cardboardâ... More...   $0 (05-18-2023 - MO)

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with manslaughter.

Phillip Mabry, age 34, was charged with manslaughter to killing Officer Mitchell Penton on February 13, 2021.


TITLE 10. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND MORALS

CHAPTER 49. INTOXICATION AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE OFFENSES

Sec. 49.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:<... More...   $0 (05-17-2023 - TX)

Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain COVID-19 pandemic relief money he was not entitled to receive, mail fraud and tax evasion.

Between June 18, 2020 and February 2021, Jonathan Olivetti, age 43, of Philadelphia, a licensed attorney, applied for two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and tw... More...   $0 (05-16-2023 - PA)

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulent spending hundreds of thousands of dollars using credit cards he fraudulently opened using the identities of others, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Robert Lourenco, 52, of Queens, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of an indictment charging him with access device fraud.

During... More...   $0 (05-12-2023 - NJ)

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud offense related to his theft of pandemic unemployment benefits.

In March 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Actâ€�) was signed into law. The CARES Act created a new temporary federal unemployment insurance program for pandemic unemployment assistance (“Pandemic Un... More...   $0 (05-12-2023 - CT)

Nashville, Tennessee personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on class action municipal code violation theory claiming that Defendant violated § 6.81.170(E) of the Code of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (“Ordinanceâ€�)[2] stated that it was “prohibited and unlawfulâ€� for a booting service “[t]o fail to remove the boot within... More...   $0 (05-11-2023 - TN)

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with stealing gigabytes of Company 1's data.

In December 2020, SHARP secretly stole gigabytes of Company-1’s data. While purportedly working to remediate the security breach he created, SHARP extorted the company, as an anonymous hacker, for nearly $2 million for the return of the files and the identificatio... More...   $0 (05-10-2023 - NY)

West Palm Beach, Florida consumer law lawyer represent Plaintiff who sued defendant on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act violation theory under 47 U.S.C. 227, which provides, in part:

(b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment
(1) ProhibitionsIt shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is withi... More...   $1 (05-09-2023 - FL)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory under 15 U.S.C. 1692, which provides:

(a) Abusive practices

There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of p... More...   $0 (05-09-2023 - OK)

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with preparing and filing false tax returns, and committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

On Jan. 26, 2023, after a three-day trial, a jury found Deena Vang Lee, age 41, from Fresno, guilty of 13 felony counts, including three counts of wire fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, five counts of p... More...   $0 (05-08-2023 - CA)

Mobile, Alabama insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach in insurance contract theory.


This litigation is about an insurance dispute -- the amounts allegedly owed. Specifically, Plaintiffs Charna and Brandon Williams (Williams, Mrs. Williams, or Mr. Williams) own a single-family residential property located at 7143 Wynncliff Drive in Mobile... More...   $0 (05-05-2023 - AL)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charge with fraud involving the theft of over $1.4 million in computer equipment.

Tod Erickson, 60, of Londonderry, N.H., served as the information technology manager at a telecommunications company that, until February 2019, had an office located in Chelmsford, Mass. As information technology manager, Erikson was respons... More...   $0 (05-05-2023 - MA)

Sherman, Texas insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach of contract theory.

In Texas, bad faith breach of contract is a tort that allows a plaintiff to recover damages for the insurer's unreasonable and unfair conduct in handling a claim. To prove bad faith breach of contract, the plaintiff must show that:

The parties had a contract... More...   $0 (05-04-2023 - TX)