Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with accepting Kansas City Chiefs playoffs tickets and a new Chevrolet Tahoe in exchange for facilitating a $12.4 million Covid fraud scheme by a Jefferson City, Mo., business owner, as well as a separate fraud scheme to receive unemployment benefits.

Anthony Omar Brockman, 48, who currently resides in Benning... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - MO)

Santa Ana, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

Amadou Kane Diallo, 44, a Senegalese national living in Laguna Niguel, was arrested at his residence for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.8 million from at least 11 victims who thought their investments would allow them to reap the benefits of Diallo’s supposed business successes while facing lit... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - CA)

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with honest services mail fraud.

Former Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Pastor agreed to plead guilty to the public corruption charges filed against him.

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El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Leslie Robert Burk, 55, of El Paso, and Ethan Sturgis Day, 59, of Idyllwild, California, conspired, engaged, and participated in defrauding customers/victims through a business, Atomic Container Homes, Incorporated (ACHI) and other similarly named businesses. As the principals of AC... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - TX)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with securities fraud.

Justin Costello victimized marijuana business owners, private investors, and investors who purchased stock in the public market. Costello used fraud proceeds for an expensive lifestyle, including an elaborate wedding with a James Bond theme. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Ricar... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $360,000 in COVID-19 relief funding intended for endangered small businesses.

Marisa Beck, age 40, of Spokane, was accused of fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds.

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Sec... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - WA)

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally conducting boat charters on he Chicago waterways.

Christopher Mike Gabrowski used a 40-foot powerboat known as “Sea Hawk” and “Anchorman” to conduct illegal commercial charter operations on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, including an area in downtown Chicago known by boaters as “the Play... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - IL)

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged or their roles in an immigration fraud conspiracy. DZHAMGAROVA, a leader of the scheme and an immigration lawyer, was sentenced to two years in prison, and ARCADIAN, also an attorney, was sentenced to six months in prison.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Out of her Brighton Beach law office, Dzham... More...   $0 (05-31-2023 - NY)

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with robbing a credit union.

On November 28, 2022, Ethan Clark, ate 31, gave a bank teller at the Service Credit Union in Keene a note demanding money, stealing more than $4,700. Surveillance footage shows that Clark left the bank and walked to a van he stole from his former employer. Later that day, Clark was s... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - NH)

Charleston, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a fraudulent lottery scam that targeted elderly victims around the country.

As part of the scheme, the Tyrell Harris, 32, and Errol Durrant, 60, or their co-conspirators contacted elderly victims and falsely inform the victims that they had won a sweepstakes. The supposed prizes in these swe... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - SC)

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl.

Lavarance D. Nettles’s guilty plea established that on September 3, 2020, the Mobile Police Department Tactical Intelligence Unit seized eighty-four pills from the defendant’s vehicle. The pills were tested and found to contain fentanyl. Officers ... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - AL)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with laundering money derived from his scheme to sell counterfeit artwork.

Daniel Elie Bouaziz was the owner of art galleries, to include Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli, located at 226A and 230 Worth Avenue, respectively, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Bouaziz knowingly engaged in and attempted to engage in a mo... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - FL)

Seattle, Washington employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff on a wrongful termination theory.

CACI is an information technology company and defense contractor that provides services to various clients, including the United States Government, which is CACI's largest customer. (Dkt. No. 27-1 at 17-18.) Plaintiff's employment with CACI began in January 2016 following CACI's purchase of a... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - WA)

Anchorage, Alaska insurance Law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach contract theory.

Plaintiffs are seven women who formerly were patients of Dr. Myron Schweigert, a chiropractor practicing at Chugach Chiropractic Clinic, LLC (the “Clinic”) in Eagle River, Alaska.[5]On December 31, 2015, Plaintiffs filed suit against Dr Schweigert and the Clinic in A... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - AK)

Bangor, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Social Security fraud, health care fraud and theft of public money.

From about January 2005 through March 2021, Rella Austin-Kimball, 51, concealed the presence of her husband in her household and her receipt of alimony payments following divorce from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to maintain her eligib... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - ME)

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree sexual abuse while armed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Troy Ashley, age 22, of Washington, D.C., has been in custody since his arrest on March 26, 2018. His guilty plea called for an agreed-upon 18-year prison sentence. The Honorable Maribeth Raffinan accepted the plea... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - DC)

McAllen, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute 88.5 kilograms of cocaine.

On Nov. 13, 2022, Faustino Perez Luna was driving a tractor trailer loaded with cocaine. The drugs were the priority load of a known drug trafficking organization.

Luna approached the Falfurrias checkpoint and claimed to be headed to Atlanta... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - TX)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and money laundering.

According to the bill of information, beginning prior to 2014 and continuing until the filing of the bill of information on September 14, 2018, WILKINSON and others conspired to dispense, outside the scope of his professional practice and ... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - LA)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Georgia Tech and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

James G. Maloney’s conspirators, James J. Acree and James D. Fraley, III, pleaded guilty in 2016.

“These defendants violated the trust placed in them by Georgia Tech and the CIA in allowing their judgment to be clouded by ... More...   $0 (05-26-2023 - GA)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity.

Melinda Bixler, age 50, of York, Pennsylvania operated two businesses—one a for-profit company called Elder Healthcare Solutions; the other a non-profit company called Adult Care Advocates—providing services to elderly clien... More...   $0 (05-25-2023 - PA)

Madison, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.

In August of 2021, law enforcement agents began a drug investigation into Anthony Anderson, age 40, from Chicago, Illinois. On March 9, 2022, Anderson provided a confidential informant one ounce of methamphetamine in Wausau, Wisconsin. The following day, the... More...   $0 (05-25-2023 - WI)

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making multiple threatening calls to LGBTQ businesses in Denver and Glendale.

Sharon Robinson, age 40, of New York, called at least four businesses catering to the LGBTQ community just a few weeks after the tragic shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. The defendant made various threatening comments in each of ... More...   $0 (05-24-2023 - CO)

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants charged with fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to falsify applications for pandemic relief funds.

Leronce Suel and Ravae Smith owned Rockstar Dough LLC and Chicken Feed LLC, both of which operated a series of restaurants in the San Diego area. From March 2020 to June 2022, Suel and Smith ... More...   $0 (05-24-2023 - CA)

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)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin for his role in a large-scale heroin and fentanyl conspiracy.

Over the course of a 14-month investigation, including the use of wiretaps, law enforcement identified Carl Murphy, age 53, also known as “P” and “C-Note,” as a heroin/fentanyl supplier for numerous street-level ... More...   $0 (05-23-2023 - IA)