Roanoke, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. Jaimeka Michelle Austin, 32, orchestrated a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a scheme to steal from the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program.

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand theft, organized fraud, cashing or depositing a worthless check and possessing a counterfeit payment instrument. Sonia Infante-Perez, age 55, of Hialeah, accused of bank fraud for passing counterfeit checks.

El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud. Velasquez was arrested March 7 by the Texas Department of Public Safety on a charge of deceptive business practices.

Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A Robeson County Deputy Sheriff Ricky McMillian, his wife, and two adult sons engaged in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and by submitting false loan applications which r

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and engaging in an illegal kickback conspiracy. Teflyon Cameron, 59, of Powder Springs, Georgia, conspired to defraud health insurers, including Medicare, by causing the submission of claims for medically unnecessary Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and Cancer Genetic Tests (CGx). In total, Came

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized use, transfer, acquisition, alteration or possession of benefits, and wire fraud involving SNAP benefits. Antonio Bonheur, a 74-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti, owned the Jesula Variety Store on Blue Hill Avenue and shared a storefront with 21-year-old Saul Alisme, who was also charge

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers Roger Marion, Max Nicholas. Reed Keefe and Sarah Stein represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud. Robert Lederhilger stole millions of dollars from tens of thousands of small businesses, $180 at a time. Lederhilger thought his large scale, small sum fraud would go undetected. He was wrong. Stealing $5 million $180 at a time got him 73 m

White Plains, New York, criminal defense lawyer Steve Yurowitz represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors in two investment vehicles he managed and promoted. Solomon Lichtenstein, age solicited and received millions of dollars from friends, relatives, and members of his community on the back of false statements and misrepresenta

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers Paul Cirel and Evan Johnson represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Between November 2018 and November 2024, Patrick J. Dolan devised a scheme to defraud his clients and other individuals who entrusted Dolan to maintain funds in accounts he controlled for their benefit. Specifically, Dolan stole over $2 million that he was holding in esc

Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with health care fraud and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The indictment alleges that Kevin S. Murdock, 56, owned and operated Premier Medical Laboratory Services, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. Thomas C. Lee, 56, both of Greenville, and Vidhya V. Narayanan, 45, were both high-level empl

Savannah, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. “This defendant abused the trust placed in her by a local law firm and its clients and betrayed that trust for her own personal benefit,” said U.S. Attorney Heap. “Crimes like this harm not only the direct victims, but also the public’s confidence in the honesty and integrity of the legal profe

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Willan Pupo, 38, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison; Joel Castillo, 39, to 58 months; William Castillo, 42, was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison; Miriam Pupo, 36, to 37 months; and Jessica Forpomes, 40, to 36 months. Each defendant previously pleaded guilty to

Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer Michael Becker represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Adepoju Babtunde Salako, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was part of a conspiracy that stole more than $5 million in funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and 30 state unemployment programs through several

Las Cruces, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyers Gabriel Perez and Jessica Martin represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Claudiu Pesteleu, age 44, a Romanian national illegally in the United States participated in a nationwide fraud scheme that used fake websites impersonating legitimate businesses to trick victims into wiring money for various consumer products

Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to produce child porn, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, child exploitation, production of child pornography, sextortion and cyberstalking. Zobaidul Amin, 28, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alaska with charges related to his alleged abuse and exploitation of hundreds of mi

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Mughith Faisal, age 29, of Glendale, Arizona, enaged in a sophisticated fraud scheme against Amazon. Abdullah Alwan, 28, of Surprise, Arizona, was an employee of Amazon working in the company’s logistics division. After leaving the company in 2021, Alwan used his knowledge of Amazon's proprietar

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery of a juror in violation of 18 U.S.C. 201, which provides: (a) For the purpose of this section— (1) the term “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after such official has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on be

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy and health care fraud. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle, 48, played a central role in a massive telemarketing scheme that billed Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces. Overseas call centers collected Medicare information from unsuspecting elderly patients. Doctors, including

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Mark A. Pingsterhaus, age 52, of Carlyle, is accused of using City of Carlyle and Carlyle Fire Protection District funds for unauthorized and personal expenses like travel, entertainment, goods and services. In two examples, the indictment states he used the City

Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal contempt and withholding information on a crime. Attorney Keith Griffin, age 54, of Temple City, California, worked for the California personal injury law firm Girardi Keese, which represented relatives of victims who were killed in the 2018 crash in the Java Sea. Girardi Keese filed civil lawsuits in fe

Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Peter Valente and Angela Toma collaborated to fraudulently obtain $2,609,210 from the Paycheck Protection Program. Valente and Toma are alleged to have submitted false loan applications to Paycheck Protection Program lenders using inactive businesses and falsified bank records. When federal agents began i

Louisville, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with wire fraud. Tracy Davenport, 51, of Louisville, and others working at her direction, engaged in a scheme to induce customers into signing a contract for a pool installation and paying a large down payment up front. Davenport used those funds for purposes other than what was agreed upon. Davenport pled guilty

Lubbock, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Judy Terecia Sanchez, 60, was accused of fraudulently obtaining, forging, and cashing Texas Medicaid checks payable to a former health worker for her quadriplegic son. “The defendant inflicted unimaginable suffering on her son by ffraudulently pretending he received the care he needed and deserved,” said U

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From 2016 through 2024, Tammy Barcus, age 57, of Berlin, Maryland, a former office manager and bookkeeper for an Ocean City-based home builder, embezzled approximately $1.79 million from her former employer. Barcus used her position of trust to embezzle funds from her em

Huntington, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Todd M. Chapman, age 58, of Huntington, West Virginia embezzled at least $602,000 from a now-defunct Huntington law firm while its office manager.