¶0 The appellants, Farm Credit Bank of Wichita and Citizens Bank of Wakita (collectively, Banks) made loans to the Cecelia Simons Trust (Trust). The loans were secured by first and second mortgages on Trust real estate. The Trust defaulted, and the Banks began foreclosure proceedings. Thereafter, the Trustees conveyed two unencumbered tracts of real estate to trust beneficiaries, leaving the Trus

Dublin, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with wire fraud for lying on an application for fedeeral coronavirus relief aid which he used to by a Polemon card for $57,798.

Those loans, meant for small businesses impacted by the pandemic, can be used for expenses such as payroll, sick leave, production costs, debt and rent or mortgage payments. But prosecut

Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with stealing identities, creating and using fake foreign passports, impersonating homeowners, and falsifying loan documents to trick lenders into providing millions of dollars of mortgage loans on unencumbered residential properties.

The scheme followed a general pattern. First, the fraudsters would identify residentia

St. Louis, MO: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Tracey Ray, 48, of Center, Missouri, was the City Clerk of Center, Missouri for many years, since 2004. Beginning in January 2015 and continuing through July 2019, Ray engaged in a scheme to defraud and obtain money from Center, Missouri and its residents in an approximate amount of $315,000, by means of

Charlotte, NC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement.

Richard Allen Clark, 55, of Lenoir, N.C., was indicted for embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer.

According to filed court documents and statements made in court, from 2013 to 2019, Clark was employed as an office manager for two family-owned businesses in Lenoir, and was re

Boston, MA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud and to extort money from marijuana vendors.

Jasiel F. Correia II, the former Mayor of Fall River, Mass., was charged for his involvement in a scheme to defraud investors and extorting and conspiring to extort marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In October 2018, Correia

Birmingham, AL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud his former employer Chick-fil-A.

Larry James Black, Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former Director of Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Five Points, charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Black’s co-defendant, Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former manager at the same

Atlanta, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy and wire fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, and for bank fraud, and making false statements to a financial institution related a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application.

Maurice Fayne planned to use the PPP program as a cover for his long-running Ponzi scheme. The funds the program supp

Las Vegas, NV: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS as part of a fraudulent refund scheme.

Jabari Laquan Marshall, who was serving a federal prison sentence for a prior mortgage fraud conviction, and his brother Jalen Tony Henry devised a scheme to defraud the IRS. As part of the scheme, Marshall provided Henry with false documents and d

Detroit, MI: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, embezzlement and stealing funds from a charitable organization.

In March 2012, John R. Lynch, age 56, became the CFO of the Holy Cross organization, and in January 2015 he became its CEO. Holy Cross was established in 1948 when Boysville of Michigan was incorporated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic

Brookyn, New York: Mortgage fraud by unlicensed broker criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brent Kaufman, age 50, who was charged by indictment stealing $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were meant to pay off the existing mortgages of his clients. Defendant was accused for stealing nearly $5 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds.

“With today’s guilty pl

Miami, FL: Seth A. Bernstein, the owner of jet charter company All in Jets LLC dba JetReady, located in Florida, was accused of misappropriating Payment Protection Program (PPP) loan proceeds for his personal use. JetReady is a jet charter operator with its principal place of business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The United States alleged that Bernstein, on behalf of JetReady, applied fo

Hammond, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

Mohammed Shahbaz Khan, age 46, of Bourbonnais, Illinois, was charged with making false claims related to mortgage assistance from the Hardest Hit Fund, a federal mortgage assistance initiative offered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The purpose of the Hardest Hit

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

SHENG-WEN CHENG, a/k/a “Justin Cheng,” a/k/a “Justin Jung,” wwas charged with multiple fraud schemes he perpetrated. In particular, CHENG engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $7 million in Government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pa

San Diego, Civil Litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) violation theory claiming to have suffered $420,000 in damages.

12 U.S.C. 2601 provides:

(a) The Congress finds that significant reforms in the real estate settlement process are needed to insure that consumers throughout the Nation are provided with g

¶1 The dispositive issue presented for review in this abuse of process action filed by the counterclaimants is whether the third-party plaintiff's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence should have been sustained and a verdict directed for the third-party plaintiff.

¶2 We answer in the affirmative and reverse the judgment appealed.

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¶3 Underlying the lawsuit -