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United States of America v. David Cornejo Fernandez

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Spanish-Speaking US Consumers

A Peruvian national was sentenced yesterday to 80 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $3,000,000 in restitution for his participation in transnational fraud schemes that victimized vulnerable consumers in the U.S.

According to court documents, David Co

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United States of America v. Tochuwku Albert Nnebocha

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme.

Tochuwku Albert Nnebocha, 43, of Nigeria was extradited from the Republic of Poland and faces federal charges of engaging in a transnational criminal organization that operated an inheritance fraud scheme that cheated many American seniors out of their savings.

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United States of America v. Deverne Torres, Jr.

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Minor.

A Mescalero man is facing federal charges after allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a minor.

According to court documents, following a report made to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in February 2021, an investigation was initiated into Devern

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United States of America v. Timothy Begay

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Second-Degree Murder.

A Fruitland man has been indicted on federal charges in connection with the murder of a woman.

According to court documents, on December 9, 2024, Timothy Begay, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, intentionally killed Jane Doe.

Begay is charged with sec

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United States of America v. Carlos A Lopez, Barrett R. Howell

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Unauthorized Disposal of Government Records

Acting United States Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced today the filing of a bill of information in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, charging former federal prosecutor CARLOS A. LOPEZ (“LOPEZ”),

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United States of America v. Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking

n September 25, 2025, following a four-day trial, a federal jury in Raleigh convicted Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort of three counts of sex trafficking following a four day trial.

“These depraved reprobates preyed on vulnerable young women to make money from thei

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United States of America v. Kamal Khalid, Fnu Shahrukh

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy and conspiracy and securities fraud and odometer rollback scheme.

Chief Judge George L. Russell, III, sentenced Kamal Khalid, 44, of Pasadena, Maryland, to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after he pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud stemmi

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United States of America v. Ronnell Offutt

Washington, D.C. criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of assault with intent to kill while armed.

Ronnell Offutt, 36, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of four counts of assault with intent to kill while armed (one of which included a minor-victim enhancement) in a rush-hour shooting that took place at a crowded bus stop at the cor

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Sherry H. Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center, et al.

Portland, Oregon, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an employment discrimination theory.

Sherry M. Detwiler worked as a Privacy Officer and the Director of Health Information for Defendant-Appellee
Mid-Columbia Medical Center (“MCMC”), a hospital in The Dalles, Oregon, from September 14, 2020, through
December 20, 2021. In her own words, Detwiler is a practicing

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Jackson v. Denno

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.

Petitioner, after robbing a hotel, fatally wounded a policeman and himself received two bullet wounds. Questioned shortly after arrival at a hospital, he admitted the shooting and the robbery. Some time later, after considerable loss of blood and soon after he had been given drugs, he was inter

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United States of America v. Joseph Osei, a/k/a/ “Kyngjo,”

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits using stolen identities.

Joseph Osei, a/k/a/ “Kyngjo,” age 30, a Canadian citizen formerly of Albany, was sentenced on Tuesday to 54 months in prison for engaging in a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19 pandemic-relat

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United States of America v. Juan A. Otero, III

Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with ne count of felon-in-possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and three counts of possessing with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1).

On two separate occasions, police officers waited for Juan Otero to leave a residence, pulled him over nearby during a

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United States of America v. Marcus Hicks

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking

A Springfield, Mass. man was convicted today of drug trafficking following a three-day trial in Springfield.

Marcus Hicks, 43, was convicted of one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, one count of possession of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, and o

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United States of America v. James Wiley Kelley, Jr.

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon, possession of a machinegun, and possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.

James Wiley Kelley, Jr., 50, of Altha, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon, posse

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United States of America v. Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Bomb the New York Stock Exchange

A Coral Springs man was arraigned on a superseding indictment related to a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.

Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener, 30, is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive device to damage

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United States of America v. Juan Francisco Ramirez

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Multimillion-Dollar Wire Fraud Conspiracy

The chairman of the board of Nodus International Bank (Nodus), a Puerto Rican international banking entity, pleaded guilty on Sept. 22 for his role in leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $13.6 million from Nodus, which ultimately led to the bank’s failur

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United States of America v. Andrew Scott Hastings

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Provide Al-Qa’ida with Weapons

A complaint was unsealed today after a Tulsa man appeared before a federal judge for attempting to provide 3-D printed weapons to an individual he believed was receiving them on behalf of al-Qa’ida.

Andrew Scott Hastings, 25, is charged with Attempting

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United States of America v. Celia Ignacia Esquivel-Bataz

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry after deportation following conviction of a felony offense.

Esquivel-Bataz, a citizen and national of Mexico, was convicted in
2011 of making a false statement to obtain credit. She was subsequently
deported in May 2012. In April 2025, United States Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE)

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United States of America v. David Deval Martin

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murdering Checotah Woman

David Deval Martin, age 40, of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, was sentenced - for a second time - to life in prison for the vicious 2013 murder of a Checotah woman.

In 2016, Martin was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after a

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United States of America v. Dr. Samuel R. Chacon

Reno, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding health care benefit programs

An OB-GYN in Reno made his initial court appearance today for allegedly defrauding health care benefit programs by submitting false claims for unnecessary gynecologic tests and surgical procedures, some resulting in serious medical complications.

According to court

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United States of America v. Raymond Marcellous Blair

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering

A Great Falls man with prior felony convictions who lied about his income and his criminal history to obtain COVID funds was found guilty by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris yeste

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United States of America v. Raymond Marcellous Blair

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering for fraudulent use of COVID funds

A Great Falls man with prior felony convictions who lied about his income and his criminal history to obtain COVID funds was found guilty by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris yesterday, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

Follo

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United States of America v. Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murdering Couple and their Unborn Child During Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, an undocumented Mexican national living in Yakima, Washington, admitted in federal court today that he murdered a man and his six-months-pregnant wife while they were engaged in a drug trafficking cons

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United States of America v. Montrez Dixon

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withdrug trafficking and money laundering.

A St. Joseph, Mo., man has been convicted at trial of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and money laundering.

Montrez Dixon, 32, was found guilty on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, of one count of conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture or subs

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United States of America v. Jermaine C. Bunn

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Asleep at the Wheel with a Loaded Gun

A Mahoning County man who was prohibited from possessing a firearm has been sentenced to prison after police officers found him unresponsive in his vehicle with a loaded gun.

Jermaine C. Bunn, 49, of Youngstown, was sentenced to 150 months (12.5 years) in prison

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