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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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... More...   $0 (11-29-2022 - MI)

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... More...   $0 (11-21-2022 - AZ)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Fair Credit Reporting Act violation theory.

Consumer credit law is a body of law that regulates the relationship between consumers and creditors. It is designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices by creditors, and to ensure that consumers have access to credit on fair and reas... More...   $1 (10-28-2022 - LA)

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 ... More...   $0 (10-21-2022 - MA)

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... More...   $0 (09-19-2022 - IL)

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,... More...   $0 (09-13-2022 - CA)

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... More...   $0 (09-01-2022 - LA)

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... More...   $0 (09-01-2022 - NY)

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... More...   $0 (08-27-2022 - CA)

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’... More...   $0 (08-25-2022 - FL)

Orlando, Florida criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with helping to execute a nationwide tax fraud scheme and attempting to prevent the IRS from recovering a fraudulent refund she received after filing a false tax return.

Rebecca Cyphers, 65, of Winter Springs, Florida, participated in a nationwide tax fraud scheme from at least September 2014 to May 2016. As part of the schem... More...   $0 (08-24-2022 - OK)

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Matthew C. Browndorf, age 51, of Irvine, California, was indicted by a grand jury with four counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering arising from a scheme to defraud the clients and employees of a foreclosure law firm that he owned by stealing more than $3.9 million. More...   $0 (08-19-2022 - MD)

Washington, DC: Criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Bridget Coates, 49, of Falls Church, Va., was the principal of St. Thomas More Catholic School in Southeast Washington at the time her criminal activity began, in 2012, until she resigned in 2018. She pleaded guilty on April 4, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to a charge of wi... More...   $0 (08-03-2022 - DC)

Boston, Massachusetts consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful foreclosure theory.


This putative class action arises from purportedly defective pre-foreclosure notices sent by defendants PHH Mortgage Corporation (“PHH”) and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee of the IndyMac INDX Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-AR33, Mortgage Pass-Through C... More...   $0 (07-20-2022 - MA)