Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect his tax debt.
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United States of America v. Joann Thomas
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Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple federal felonies connected to a scheme to steal tax dollars intended for flood control.
The wife of the former long-time Commissioner of an East King County drainage district was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for multipl
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United States of America v. Lori E. Deveny
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Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.
Lori E. Deveny, 57, was sentenced to 101 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. Deveny was also ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in restitution to her victims.
“It’s hard to overstate the extraordinary impact Ms. Deveny’s crimes had on the many innocent and vulne
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United States of America v. Richard Scott Simkins
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Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with embezzlement.
Richard Scott Simkins, 57, currently a resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, w
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United States of America v. Juliana Martins
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Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements when applying for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgage, a Small Business Association (SBA) loan, and for fraudulently applying for government-funded COVID unemployment benefits.
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Jepheth Eglin Barnes v. Spartnburg County Sheriff's Office, et al.
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Spartanburg, South Carolina personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming her was wrongfully convicted of rape and incarcerated to 9 years.
In 1995, a bank foreclosed on Jepheth Barnes' home due to his wife's
secret gambling problems and resulting nonpayment of their mortgage. 99
Consequently, Ba
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The State of South Carolina v. Jepheth Elgin Barnes
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Spartanburg, South Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child.
Jepheth Barnes, age 51, was accused of raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter.
In 1995, a bank foreclosed on Jepheth Barnes' home due to his wife's
secret gambling problems and resulting nonpayment of their mortgage. 99
Consequently, Barnes "separated ... from his wife
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United States of America v. Lorin Kay Buckner and Dessalines Sealy
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Cincinnati, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a foreclosure rescue scheme that defrauded at least 780 financially distressed homeowners throughout the United States. The defendants preyed on homeowners who had defaulted on their mortgages and convinced the victims to pay to take part in fraudulent programs on the promise it would save their homes.
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Justin W. LaPree v. Kelly M. LaPree
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Austin, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the trial court’s final divorce decree
The parties married in 2012. While Kelly was a minor, her grandparents created
three irrevocable trusts (the Norris Trusts)—in 1989, 1991, and 1992, respectively—naming her
the sole primary ben
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United States of America v. Yigal Ziv
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Detroit, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with willful failing to collect and pay over employment taxes on behalf of his employees.
Yigal Ziv owned and operated Multinational Technologies, Inc. (MTI), a software developer based in Walled Lake. Ziv was responsible for filing MTI’s quarterly employment tax returns and collecting and paying to the IRS payroll taxe
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CL III Funding Holding Company, LLC v. Steelhead Midstream Partners, LLC; Strategic Energy Income Fund III, LP; Eagleridge Energy II, LLC; and Eagleridge Midstream, LLC
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Fort Worth, Texas – Real Estate lawyer represented Appellant with a fractured and contentious” relationship between two pipeline co-owners. .
This case centers on the “[h]ighly fractured and contentious” relationship
between two pipeline co-owners—Appellant CL III Funding Holding Company, LLC
and Appel
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In the Estate of: Lynne Vines, a/k/a Doris Lynne Vines, Deceased
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Houston, Texas – Probate lawyer represented Appellant with complaining of the probate court’s order appointing a receiver in an underlying will contest.
Lynne Vines’s husband, Larry, started Dial Electrical Controls of Houston,
Inc. (“Dial Electrical”) and its sister company, LV Controls, Inc. (“LV Cont
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United States of America v. Michael Feinberg and Betsy Feinberg
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Tucson, Arizona criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with securities and wire fraud.
Michael and Betsy Feinberg operated Catharon Software Corporation as husband and wife. The Feinbergs claimed they had produced revolutionary software called VDelta that would generate enormous returns for investors and philanthropists. For almost 15 years, the Feinbergs lured investors with f
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United States of America v. George Kritopoulos
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for engaging in a decade-long mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen loan transactions, totaling $6.5 million, that resulted in more than $3.8 million in losses to lenders.
George Kritopoulos, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to four years in prison to be followed by two years
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Pinnacle Roofing Systems, Inc. and Charles Schibi v. MG Building Materials, Ltd.
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San Antonio, Texas – Business Law lawyer represented Appellants with a contract dispute,
In early 2012, Pinnacle entered into a “Commercial Credit Application and Agreement” (the “Agreement”) with MG. Schibi signed as President of Pinnacle and individually as guarantor. 04-21-00160-CV - 2 - Under the Agreement,
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United States of America v. Kenesha Burlison
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East St. Louis, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with identity theft.
Kenesha Burlison, 40, of St. Louis, Missouri, was the Director of Human Relations for Call for Help, Inc. from 2016 until her termination in 2020. Call for Help is a longstanding charitable organization in East St. Louis, Illinois, that helps people overcome a variety of personal crises, rangin
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William Owen Barber v. Irena Mary Barber
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Fort Worth, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with a division of property incident to a divorce.
Husband and Wife married in 2010. Because they married later in life, each
spouse brought a substantial amount of separate property into the marriage. At the
time of the marriage, Husband owned a home in Plano,
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United States of America v. Mark Dango “Kafani” Hicks, Jr., aka Amir Rashad, et al.
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San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in a multi-million dollar Mortgage Fraud Scheme orchestrated a complex loan fraud and identity theft conspiracy
Mark Hicks admitted to being at the center of a conspiracy in which he directed a team of criminals who stole approximately $2 million from banks and lending institutions. Specifically,
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United States of America v. Janola Massaquoi
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Shreveport, Louisiana criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements to a federal agency.
In March 2020 Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act which was designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the CA
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United States of America v. Edward E. Bohm
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Central Islip, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.
Edward E. Bohm, age 44, from Smithtown, New York, formerly the President of Sales and part-owner of mortgage lender Vanguard Funding, LLC (Vanguard), based in Garden City, New York, was accused of diverting of more than $8.9 million of warehouse loans that Vanguard had fraudulently obtained purportedly to f
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State of Florida v. Tony Garcia
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West Palm Beach, Florida criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with arson.
On June 11, 2014, Tony Garcia’s mortgage lender sent him
notice that, in a month, his home would be sold at foreclosure.
Seventeen days later, Garcia’s neighbor saw the house go up in
flames and called 911. The State charged Garcia with arson for
setting fire to the place. Garcia’
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United States of America v. Victor Makras
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making false statements to a bank and of bank fraud tied to fraudulent representations made in a mortgage refinance loan application.
Victor Makras, 64, of San Francisco, was charged in a superseding indictment filed on May 31, 2022. The four criminal counts related to a mortgage refinance loan obtained by an associate of Makras and the associate’s wife. Those four counts charged Makras
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