| State of Oklahoma v. Burton Olen Walker |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault and Battery Upon a Police Officer. * * * The Florida Courts sustained the conviction and Waller appealed to the United States Supreme Court. That Court said: "[W]e hold that on the basis of the facts upon which the Florida District Court of Appeal relied petitioner could not lawfully be tried $ (09-07-1973 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Justin Heimbach |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of mail fraud and four counts of wire fraud. Justin Heimbach, 34, of Bath, Pennsylvania, operated a construction company called TeamKJ Construction, and engaged in a scheme that caused fraudulent PUA applications to be filed in the names of individuals allegedly no longer employed by TeamKJ as $ (03-03-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Marshall Lampkin |
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St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud. Marshall Lampkin, 36, carried out his scheme by first using Kohl’s Cash to purchase merchandise in a Kohl’s store, generally for more than $1,000. He would then immediately use the same Kohl’s Cash to order merchandise online, knowing that the in-person transaction had not yet registered. Lamp $ (02-27-2026 - MO) |
| United States of America v. Carlos Sacanell |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with insider trading. Carlos Sacanell, 59, of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment in October 2024. In September of last year, he pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud (insider trading) and one count of making a false statement to a federal agency. As detailed in court filings and $ (02-23-2026 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Andrew Warner and Kishore Vangipuram |
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New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud. The Government alleges that Andrew Warner and Kishore Vangipuram, inflated Mobileum’s key financial metrics in advance of the company’s 2022 sale to an investment firm at an enterprise value of $915 million. Mobileum declared bankruptcy in 2024, after the $ (02-17-2026 - NY) |
| State of Oklahoma v. V.M.B. |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to possess required license under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Act in violation of 37A O.S. 6-117, which provides: Any person who shall knowingly engage in any activity or perform any transaction or act for which a license is required under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, not having such lic $ (02-12-2026 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Don Lemon |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with conspiracy agains rights of religious freedom at a place or worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of a right of religious worship. 18:241 provides: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Po $ (02-13-2026 - MN) |
| United States of America v. Braden John Karony |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and interstate commerce money laundering. Braden John Karony, the Chief Executive Officer of SafeMoon US LLC, a digital asset company registered in Utah (SafeMoon) lied to investors from all walks of life—including military veterans and h $ (02-11-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Ryan David Schreder |
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Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement in the process of acquiring a firearm. The government began investigating Ryan David Schreder, 45, after repeatedly being told about his escalating behavior. On October 10, 2024, the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office obtained and executed a search warrant for Schreder’s residence. Th $ (02-09-2026 - MT) |
| United States of America v. Madison Grant Sergent |
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Huntington, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of meth. On July 23, 2024, Madison Grant Sergent, 27, of Huntington, directed another individual to distribute approximately 24 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in exchange for $180 in Huntington. As part of her plea agreement, Sergent admitted to arranging the transaction a $ (02-03-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. Wuesley Pelaez Vela |
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Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer Bryan Owens represented the Defendant charged with money laundering and conspiracy to distribute and poss with intent to distribute 200 grams or more of fentanyl. In 2019, an investigation began into a Colombia-based money laundering organization that was laundering drug proceeds on behalf of multiple drug trafficking organizations. Between 2020 an $ (02-01-2026 - MA) |
| United States of America v. John Tamahere McCabe |
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Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. The Defendant was accused of defrauding a 79-year-old Orange County, California, victim out of nearly $2 million via false promises to broker the sale of the victim’s yacht and by taking out unauthorized loans against the victim’s Irvine condominium, which left the victim homeless. John Tamahere $ (01-29-2026 - CA) |
| State of Oklahoma v. Contu Lee Everett |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony (AFCF), in violation of 21 O.S. 1283, which provides: A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person convicted of any felony in any court of this state or of another state or of the United States to have in $ (01-22-2026 - OK) |
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Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Ryan Wedding, Olympic snowboarder turned Wedding, who competed for his home country in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has been accused of running a major drug trafficking network that moved cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the U.S. and Canada. Ryan James Wedding, 44, $ (01-23-2026 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Felix Clark |
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Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer Jeremy McLymont represented the Defendant who was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Felix Clark, a/k/a “Joseph Moore,” a/k/a “Stanley Smith,” 37, of Royse City, Texas, conspired and agreed to receive the proceeds of fraud perpetrated by a co-conspirator in Ghana and transfer proceeds overseas. During the conspiracy, one or more of $ (01-21-2026 - NJ) |
| United States of America v. Carlos Orense Azocar |
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New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and related weapons charges. Carlos Orense Azocar and his drug trafficking organization distributed tons of cocaine destined for importation into the United States. ORENSE AZOCAR helped transport, receive, and distribute loads of cocaine ranging from hu $ (01-21-2026 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Jesse El-Ghoul |
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Worcester, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government money, bank fraud, and money laundering. Jesse El-Ghoul, 31, owned and operated Affordable Motor Group in Leominster, Mass. and owed back taxes for the business. On March 29, 2024, El-Ghoul deposited a tax refund check for $1,344,863, payable to Affordable Motor Group into his business b $ (01-20-2026 - MA) |
| Arizona v. Rodney Joseph Gant |
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Respondent Gant was arrested for driving on a suspended license, handcuffed, and locked in a patrol car before officers searched his car and found cocaine in a jacket pocket. The Arizona trial court denied his motion to suppress the evidence, and he was convicted of drug offenses. Reversing, the State Supreme Court distinguished New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454, 101 S.Ct. 2860, 69 L.Ed.2d 768—wh $ (04-21-2009 - DC) |
| Graham v. Connor |
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Charlotte, North Carolina, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory. Berry's car, and made an investigative stop, ordering the pair to wait while he found out what had happened in the store. Respondent backup police officers arrived on the scene, handcuffed Graham, and ignored or rebuffed attempts to explain and treat Graham's condition. $ (05-15-1989 - DC) |
| United States of America v. Maurice Kelly Johnson, aka “Reese" |
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Huntington, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearm by a convicted felon. On May 22, 2025, Johnson provided a Smith & Wesson model M&P Shield M2.0 9mm pistol that was sold to a confidential informant in Huntington. As part of his guilty plea, Maurice Kelly Johnson, also known as “Reese,” 58, of Huntington, admitted to possessing th $ (01-13-2026 - WV) |
| United States of America v. Jonathan Leissler |
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Cleveland, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud after defrauding his employer, a police organization, and an online fundraising company out of millions of dollars. From about March 2022 to November 2024, Jonathan Leissler, 44, of Stow, Ohio, worked at an industrial supply company in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, as its chief financial officer (CFO). This $ (12-18-2025 - OH) |
| United States of America v. Christian Sturdivant |
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Charlotte, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Christian Sturdivant, of Mint Hill, allegedly planned to use knives and hammers to execute a deadly New Year’s Eve attack at a grocery store and a fast food restaurant in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been arrest $ (01-02-2026 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Joseph A. McCallum, Jr. |
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Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements. Joseph A. McCallum, Jr. 70, a former member of the Newark Municipal Council who also served on the Board of Directors of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation (“NCEDC”), was charged with participating in a scheme to obtain bribes and kickbacks and subsc $ (12-22-2025 - NJ) |
| United States of America v. Jose Israel Teneaca-Mejia |
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New Haven, Connecticut, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child exploitation. An April 29, 2025, the Stamford Police Department secured an arrest warrant charging Jose Israel Teneaca-Mejia, age 21, a citizen of Ecuador residing in West Haven, with felony risk of injury and interfering with an officer. Tenesaca Mejia subsequently fled Connecticut with a 14-year-old $ (12-31-2025 - CT) |
| United States of America v. Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to obstruct, delay or affect commerce through extortion in connection with ransomware attacks occurring in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, and another co-conspirator successfully deployed the ransomware known as ALPHV BlackCat between April 2023 and December 2023 agains $ (12-20-2025 - FL) |
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