| United States of America v. Kwame Boahene |
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Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Kwame Boahene, 63, and his co-conspirators orchestrated an international romance fraud scheme that defrauded victims across the country, including elderly victims and a victim in Delaware. The cybercriminals created fictitious online personas to develop romantic relationships with the victims. Once $ (04-02-2026 - DE) |
| United Sates of America v. George Moses |
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and bank fraud. George Moses, age 45, of Wilkes-Barre, submitted applications for unemployment compensation, pandemic unemployment compensation, economic injury disaster loan, and paycheck protection program loan benefits falsely representing that he had qualifying income from the oper $ (04-02-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Dashawn Dawkins |
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Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and violating the anti-kickback statute. Dashawn Dawkins, 34, was a peer support specialist at Serenity Keeper’s, LLC (“Serenity Keepers”), a sober home company based in Fayette County, Ky., that purported to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment servic $ (04-02-2026 - KY) |
| United States of America v. Jean Ronald Tirelus, Roberto Samedy. Edouardo St. Fort, and Miguel Jorge |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with embezzling more than $1.3 million from a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization that provided home care services and operated homeless shelters in New York City. Jean Ronald Tireless was the former chairman of the organization’s board of directors, and Samedy was the executive director of the organization. $ (04-01-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Renata Supina-Saltus |
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New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Renata Supina-Saltus, an employee of the Republic Croatia ran a long-running fraud scheme in which she fabricated invoices to embezzle approximately $750,000. “Renata Supina-Saltus held a position of trust as member of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations,” $ (04-01-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Michael Brown |
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New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud. Michael Brown, the CEO of a nationwide online marketing scheme to make money by posting fake advertisements for rental properties across the United States on a classified advertisements website. The purpose of the scheme was to fraudulently induce pote $ (04-01-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Tatiana Bazer |
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Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud and impersonating and officer or employee of the United States. Tatiana Bazer falsely represented to victims that their money would be used in various ways, including, among things, projects in Ukraine, immigration services, or as loans to Bazer to help resolve her purported arrest for shoplifting, according $ (04-01-2026 - IL) |
| United States of America v. Jean Joseph and Janalies Camille Bingham |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Jean Joseph, also known as “Jon,” 55, of Boca Raton, and Camille Bingham, also known as Janalie Camille Joseph, 44, also of Boca Raton were accused of orchestrating a years-long real estate investment fraud scheme that raised more than $50 million from inves $ (04-01-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Antonio Bonheur |
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Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized use SNAP benefits and wire fraud. Antonio Bonheur, 74, of Mattapan, was accusedc of food stamp fraud and wire fraud. Bonheur was arrested and charged in December 2025. Bonheur owned Jesula Variety Store, which operated as a small variety store within a single street-facing storefront in the $ (03-31-2026 - MA) |
| United States of America v. John Muriuku Wamuigah |
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New Have, Connecticut, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. John Muriuku Wamuigah, age 36, a citizen of Kenya, participated in a business email compromise scheme masterminded by his co-conspirator, Okechuckwu Valentine Osuji, a Nigerian national. Osuji and his co-conspirators targeted specific individuals and businesses by masquerading $ (03-31-2026 - CT) |
| United States of America v. Edmilson Rodrigues |
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Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and felony possession of ammunition. Edmilson Rodrigues, 27, was accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and being a felon in possession of ammunition “Rodrigues’ decision to engage in yet another check fraud scheme while on supervised released reflects a blatant disregard $ (03-31-2026 - RI) |
| United States of America v. Saheed Sunday Owolabi |
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Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Saheed Sunday Owolabi, a Nigerian national, pretended to be a woman to build online relationships with men in the United States, a scheme known as a romance scam. He and his co-conspirators used these fake relationships to cheat victims into sending mo $ (03-31-2026 - NC) |
| State of Florida v. Briana McCarthy, Brianna Hannan, Carlotta Hawkins, Kearla Walerk Whitney Branch, and Kavon Reese |
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Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants chargd with fraud. Six individuals charged with defrauding the Florida. The individuals were accused of orchestrating a scheme to process property damage claims through the Florida Division of Risk Management, allegedly defrauding the state of $1.7 million. The Florida Department of Financial Services Criminal Investigati $ (03-31-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Luis Emilio Hernandez |
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Fort Myers, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Following Hurricane Ian in 2022, Luis Emilio Hernandez, age 45, of Naples, convinced an 85-year-old victim to write him personal checks totaling over $1.2 million for construction materials and repairs that were never performed. Instead, Hernandez cashed the checks for his own p $ (03-31-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Toni Lee Mash, fka Tonie Lee Jones |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Fraud and stealing more than $700k from her employers. In 2023, Toni Lee Mesh, 40, of Vinita, was hired as the office manager and accountant for two privately owned manufacturing businesses in Pryor. She was responsible for the business’s accounting system, processing revenues and expenses, and handling payro $ (03-25-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Brandon Denzel Washington |
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Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion for prostitution. Brandon Denzel Washington, age 33, was charged with trafficking four different women. Multiple victims testified about Washington trafficking and transporting them to Washington, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Hawaii between 2014 and 2021. Wash $ (03-27-2026 - WA) |
| United States of America v. Dr. Eric Edward Haeger |
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Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with adulterating and misbranding medical devices with the intent to defraud or mislead. In June 2021, Philips Respironics initiated a recall for certain CPAP and BiPAP devices due to potential health risks associated with the foam used in the devices for sound abatement. The recall was classified as a Class I recall $ (03-27-2026 - WA) |
| United States of America v. Jahangeer Ali |
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Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud. From June 2025 through January 2026, Oregon Clinical Laboratory submitted more than $46 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare Advantage plans. However, no providers actually ordered testing services and none of the Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on the claims actually received testing servi $ (03-27-2026 - OR) |
| United States of America v. Michael J. Moore |
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Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt to evade or defeat the payment of taxes. Michael J. Moore, of Las Vegas, operated a tax and accounting business known as X Tax Pros that he used to promote an illegal tax avoidance scheme. Moore advertised X Tax Pros as being the “only” tax and bookkeeping company specializing in clients from the adult $ (03-27-2026 - NV) |
| United States of America v. Christopher Harwood |
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Christopher Harwood, 43, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, admitted that he owned and operated a telemedicine company called TelevisitMD. Harwood and his co-conspirators targeted Medicare patients through aggressive telemarketing campaigns, inducing them to $ (03-27-2026 - FL) |
| United States of America v. Dwayne D. Adams |
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Springfield, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud. Dwayne D. Adams, 33, conspired with others to defraud United States military service men and women through the use of social media. Adams is the third and final defendant to be sentenced for his role in defrauding active service members $ (03-27-0008 - MO) |
| United States of America v. Craig A. Spiegel |
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St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for sex acts, nude photos or cash. Craig A. Spiegel, now 70, exploited his position to obtain cash, sexual acts or sexual photographs from at least 19 patients, many of whom he began treating as children. Spiegel illegally distributed an “astr $ (03-28-2026 - MO) |
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Michael Joseph Breitenbach |
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud of taking money from insurers intended for his clients. Michael Joseph Breitenbach, 53, the owner of Patriot Public Adjusting, LLC, is accused of misappropriating over $82,000 in insurance claims and defrauding elderly homeowners in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. $ (03-28-2026 - pa) |
| United States of America v. Robert "Bobby" Leon Smith, III |
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Archer City, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and wire fraud conspirac. Robert “Bobby” Leon Smith III, 50, of Archer City, Texas, owned and operated seven durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies based in Florida, Texas, and Maryland through which he submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare for orthotic braces a $ (03-28-2026 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Aleksei Volkov |
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Indianapolis, Indiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware group, carry out numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware attacks throughout the United States, causing over $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses. $ (03-27-2026 - IN) |
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