San Diego, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with 113 counts of hate crimes.

John T. Earnest, age 22, of Rancho Penasquitos pleaded guilty in federal court today to a 113-count hate crimes indictment, admitting that he set fire to an Escondido mosque and opened fire in a Poway synagogue because he wanted to kill Muslims and Jews. The religiously- and racially-motiv... More...   $0 (09-19-2021 - CA)

Los Angeles, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet.

Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was charged with one count of conspiracy to ... More...   $0 (09-19-2021 - CA)

Sacramento, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with making false statements in an application for FEMA benefits in connection with the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire.

Kristen Canapary, age 53, of Butte County was indicted for making false statements on a FEMA disaster benefits application.

FEMA provided disaster benefits to certain qualified individuals whose pr... More...   $0 (09-19-2021 - cA)

St. Paul, Minnesota defacing, damaging or destroying any religious real property because of the religious character of the property charge criminal defense lawyer represented Emily Claire Hari, a/k/a Michael Hari, age 50.

On December 9, 2020, following a five-week trial, Hari was convicted by a federal jury on all five counts of the indictment, including intentionally defacing, damaging, ... More...   $0 (09-17-2021 - MN)

Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently converting to his own personal use federal money intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeremy Clawson, 32, was charged with theft of public money in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641.

“Recent federal relief programs, like those authorized by the CARES Act, were designed to ... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - OR)

Seattle, WA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and intentional damage to a protected computer.

Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, was indicted for his leadership role in a seven-year scheme to unlawfully unlock nearly 2 million phones to defraud AT&T Inc. (AT&T), inflicting more than $200 million in losses.

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New Orleans, LA: Conspiracy to pass altered U.S. Postal money orders, passing altered U.S. Postal money orders and possessing stolen U.S. government property criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Antoine Merchant, age 32., who with a co-defendant who has already plead guilty, Anthony Smalls, travelled from New York to Louisiana in October of 2019 to cash stolen U.S. Postal money orders th... More...   $0 (09-14-2021 - LA)

Houston, TX: Environmental law lawyers represented Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, which agreed to pay $2.85 million in civil penalties and to improve its risk management program to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas.

In the complaint, filed by the govern... More...   $0 (09-14-2021 - TX)

Minneapolis, MN: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property because of the religious character of that property; intentionally obstructing and attempting to obstruct, by force and the threat of force, the free exercise of religious beliefs; conspiracy to commit federal felonies by means of fire and explosives; carry... More...   $0 (09-14-2021 - MN)