Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using the DEA Registration number of another while prescribing controlled substances.

Debra Shaffer, of New Castle, Virginia r was an important part of a years-long scheme to illegitimately distribute Suboxone by staff providers who lacked the training, experience, and legal authority to prescribe Suboxone... More...   $0 (10-24-2023 - VA)

New Orleans, Louisiana qui tam lawyers represented Defendant accused of knowingly submitting false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the replacement of certain educational facilities located in Louisiana that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Between 2006 and 2010, AECOM served as a technical assistance contractor in support of FEMA disaster recovery efforts fo... More...   $0 (10-24-2023 - LA)

White Plains, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud, and mail fraud.

18 U.S.C. 371 provides:

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such pe... More...   $0 (10-24-2023 - NY)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing tuition and deposits from families in Boston, and across the country, who planned to send children to sports camps in the Boston area in July and August 2019.

Beginning in the fall of 2018, Mehdi Belhassan, age 53, of Tampa, Florida, falsely claimed that he would operate his annual MB Sports Ca... More...   $0 (10-20-2023 - MA)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribing mail carriers to steal postal arrow keys used to unlock mail receptacles and to use stolen items from the mail to fraudulently obtain funds from banks.

Amin C. Jones, 29, of Orange, New Jersey, schemed to bribe mail carriers in East Orange and Newark, New Jersey, by offering them cash, typically ... More...   $0 (10-20-2023 - NJ)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with operating a timeshare resale scam business that affected more than 8,000 victims nationwide, many of them elderly.

“The defendants monetized their clients’ trust to commit a multi-state fraud scheme that enabled them to steal millions of dollars from more than 8,000 victims, including many seniors who w... More...   $0 (10-20-2023 - GA)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with running a fraudulent cryptocurrency and stock investment scheme.

From June 2020 through March 2022, Ryan James Crawford, aka “Brody,” 30, tricked victims into investing almost $1 million in his scheme by: falsely claiming to be a highly successful licensed stockbroker who had made tens of millions of dollars... More...   $0 (10-20-2023 - FL)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349.

"Conspiracy to commit bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349 is a federal crime that occurs when two or more people agree to commit bank fraud and at least one of them takes an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Bank fraud is the kn... More...   $0 (10-20-2023 - WA)

Oxford, Mississippi criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute drugs, murder, kidnapping, and assault.

“The Simon City Royals terrorized Mississippi prisons and communities for far too long,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “These convi... More...   $0 (10-19-2023 - MS)

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with insider trading to reap illicit profits from inside information about the results of clinical trials of Paxlovid, a medicine used to treat COVID-19.

In November 2021, Atul Bhiwapurkar participated in an insider trading scheme to reap illicit profits from options trading based on inside information abou... More...   $0 (10-19-2023 - NY)

San Francisco, California personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a fraud theory.

"California fraud law is a complex and ever-evolving area of law, but it is generally defined as the intentional deception of another person for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage or causing harm. Fraud can be committed in a variety of ways, including but not limit... More...   $1 (10-19-2023 - CA)

Riverside, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a scheme to obtain more than $2.1 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance (UI) benefits by filing fraudulent applications claiming, among other things, that the claimants were salon and barbershop workers rendered jobless by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert Campbell Jr., 30, of Coro... More...   $0 (10-19-2023 - CA)

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using his hedge fund management company as part of a years-long Ponzi scheme.

Michael Wayne Williams, 48, of Miami, was the chief executive officer and investment manager of Highguard Capital and its affiliated entities, Guardian Opportunity Fund and Guardian Opportunity Management. Williams convinced victims... More...   $0 (10-18-2023 - OH)

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by threat or violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) and fraud by wire, radio or television in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343.

Joran Van der Sloot, age 36, was believed to be involved in some way in the death of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. He was charged with attempting to extor... More...   $0 (10-18-2023 - AL)

Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in connection with his submission of a false COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application.

Wesley Murray, Sr., 54, submitted to the United States Small Business Association (“SBA”) a false EIDL application containing material misrepresentations. In reliance on his certificati... More...   $0 (10-16-2023 - MS)

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with committing various crimes in connection with his operation of five California and Arizona-based illicit massage businesses that profited for years by selling commercial sex under the guise of offering therapeutic massage services.

Griffin’s three female co-defendants, Kyung Sook Hernandez, 59, Yu Hong... More...   $0 (10-16-2023 - CA)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349.

Paul Kwak, participated in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme related to the COVID relief program. The charges and other information presented in court: Paul Kwak conspired with others to submit millions of dollars of fraudulent EIDL appli... More...   $0 (10-13-2023 - GA)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors.
Between 2014 and 2021, Jason Dodd Bullard, 59, and others working at his direction solicited funds from individuals, entities, and trusts purportedly to invest in a foreign currency investment program. In reality, Bullard was operating a Ponzi scheme. The funds... More...   $0 (10-13-2023 - MN)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud.

Carl R. Ruderman, 82, former chairman of 1 Global Capital LLC (“1 Global”) pled guilty to a $250 million securities fraud scheme. Four of Ruderman’s co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty for their role in this fraud, including two lawyers who provided him with false legal cover to s... More...   $0 (10-13-2023 - FL)

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and firearms offenses for his role in the murder of Frederick Delacruz on December 28, 2019.

WILLIAM JONES was a high-ranking member of the Trinitarios, a racketeering enterprise that has engaged in a pattern of murder, attempted murder, drug tr... More...   $0 (10-12-2023 - NY)

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder more than $500,000.

Xiaofei Chen admitted he arranged a fraudulent wire of $520,000 from the victims checking account. Chen opened a Bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange account using the victim’s name and driver’s license w... More...   $0 (10-12-2023 - TX)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343.... More...   $0 (10-12-2023 - PA)

Rochester, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 37 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.

Michael Rech, age 52, of North Chili, New York, was the Director, President, and CEO of Guardian of Humanity, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, as well as the sole member of Eclipse, a limited liability company. Rech applied for eight different Payro... More...   $0 (10-11-2023 - NY)

Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of wire fraud and three counts of transacting in criminally derived property for fraudulently obtaining two Paycheck Program (PPP) loans during the pandemic, receiving over $140,000 in loan proceeds, and spending those proceeds, among other things, in three separate transactions each exceeding $10,000.More...   $0 (10-11-2023 - NY)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud for trading on inside information about a Massachusetts semiconductor company’s planned acquisition of a California semiconductor company.

Gregory Manning, 60, formerly of Needham, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud. U... More...   $0 (10-11-2023 - MA)