The Justice Department secured a settlement agreement with the state of Alabama’s Medicaid Agency (Alabama Medicaid) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure that Alabama Medicaid recipients with Hepatitis C (HCV) who also have a substance use disorder have equal access to medications to treat their hepatitis.

Alabama Medicaid previously maintained a longstanding sobrie... More...   $0 (12-05-2022 - AL)

Beckley, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in acquisition of firearms.

Lakeshia Nicole Simon, age 23, of Beckley, purchased firearms in Beckley for co-defendant Bisheem Jones, also known as “Bosh,” who told Simon which ones to buy and provided the money for the purchases through an intermediary.

On April 20, 2021, S... More...   $0 (12-02-2022 - VA)

New York City, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently inflate Iconix’s revenue and earnings per share, making false filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and misleading the conduct of audits.

“As a unanimous jury has now found, Neil Cole deceived his company’s investors and auditors in order to make his company ap... More...   $0 (11-28-2022 - NY)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with carrying and using a straight edge razor blade during a flight.

On November 21, 2022, Merrill Darrell Fackrell, age 41, from Syracuse, Utah, departed on JetBlue Flight #871 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York en route to Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah. Fackrell was seated in a win... More...   $0 (11-23-2022 - UT)

San Francisco, California insurance law lawyer sued Defendant claiming that it violated E.R.I.S.A. by refusing to pay Plaintiff's claim for benefits.

A civil action may be brought--

(1) by a participant or beneficiary--

(A) for the relief provided for in subsection (c) of this section, or

(B) to recover benefits due to him under the terms of his plan, to e... More...   $1 (11-21-2022 - CA)

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, extortion, sending interstate communications with the intent to extort, healthcare fraud, money laundering, and conducting financial transactions with criminally derived proceeds.

Emmitt T. Tiner, agte 55, of O’Fallon, Illinois, admitted that he extorted more than $2,000,000 from two local More...   $0 (11-18-2022 - IL)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with deprivation of the rights of another under color of law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242, which provides: Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or i... More...   $0 (11-17-2022 - LA)

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

Yanjun Xu, 42, targeted American aviation companies, recruited employees to travel to China, and solicited their proprietary information, all on behalf of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

“As proven at trial, the defendant, a Chinese go... More...   $0 (11-16-2022 - OH)

Huntington, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements.

According to court documents and statements made in court, McComas admitted that he obtained multiple money orders in the Huntington area to help an individual in California evade financial reporting requirements. Federal law requires financ... More...   $0 (11-14-2022 - VA)

Clarksburg, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Robert Wood, of Morgantown, West Virginia was charged in March 2022 with one count Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zelda E. Wesley and Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The FBI's Northern West Virginia Drug Task Force in partnershi... More...   $0 (11-10-2022 - WV)

Central Islip, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally structuring financial transactions, corruptly obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and filing false tax returns.

“For years the defendant (Lorraine Pilitz, age 64) thought she could get away with hiding substantial amounts of cash and income, impeding the Internal Revenue Service, and ch... More...   $0 (11-10-2022 - NY)

San Diego, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and accepting thousands of dollars from representatives of the Chinese government to provide aviation-related information from his defense-contractor employers.

Shapour Moinian, age 27, from San Diego served in the U.S. Army in the Un... More...   $0 (11-07-2022 - CA)