New York, New York fraud charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, John David McAfree and Jimmy Gale Watson, Jr., who were charged with conspiracy to commit commodities and securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities and touting fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and substantive wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy offenses stemming from two schemes relating to the fraudulent... More...   $0 (03-06-2021 - NY)

Detroit, Michigan health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Mashiyat Rashid, age 40, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was the CEO of the Tri-County Wellness Group of medical providers in Michigan and Ohio. In addition to the prison sentence, Rashid was also ordered to pay over $51 million in restitution to Medicare, as well as forfeiture to the United States of property ... More...   $0 (03-05-2021 - MI)

San Francisco, California securities fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants, Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, age 47, also known as Steve Heyden also known as Euclid Deodoris also known as Joshua Millard
also known as Lars Georgsson also known as Paramon Larasoft also known as Kenth Westerbergand Eastern Metal Securities (EMS) who were charged with securities fraud, wire fraud,... More...   $0 (03-05-2021 - CA)

Eugene, Oregon sexually abusing a minor female charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, William Hamann, 38, a former Eugene elementary school teacher who was charge with sexually abusing a minor female.

On several occasions beginning in 2018 and continuing until July 2019, Hamann paid a minor female for oral sex and recorded the minor performing the sex acts. The minor femal... More...   $0 (03-04-2021 - OR)

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kellen Winslow II, age 37, with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

Winslow is a former professional football player and a sexual predator.

Winslow's attorney claimed that Winslow suffered brain damage as a result of playing football.

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Fresno, California civil rights lawyer represented Abdul Shaikh, who sued Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. on an employment discrimination theory.

This case was filed in the Tulare County Superior Court, 282730 and was removed to federal court.

42 U.S. Code § 2000e–2 - Unlawful employment practices

(a) Employer practicesIt shall be an unlawful employment practice for an emplo... More...   $1 (03-03-2021 - ca)

Cincinnati, Ohio drug distribution criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

George Griffin, M.D., 71, of Cincinnati, was charged with one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances on Oct. 5, 2020.

According to court documents, Griffin prescribed controlled substances to patients in amounts and for lengths of time that were outside the scope of legitimate medic... More...   $0 (03-02-2021 - OH)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with telemarketing fraud.

Jannice Kristina Laur, Vasean Berioisova Ricks, Jared Trhomas Michelizzi, James Anthony Sierra, Daniel Mathias, Lloyd Joseph Loftis, Corolos Kentrell Smith, Irma Beatrice timmerman, Ronald Ollo Coleman, John Michael Blalock, Sharon Denise McEwen were charged with participating in a fra... More...   $0 (02-28-2021 - MN)

El Dorado, Arkansas identity theft charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, Patrick Wayne Watson, age 24, and Kennan Diane O'Brier, age 24, who were charged with mail fraud and identity theft.

According to court records, between August of 2018 through January 31st of 2019, Watson, who was employed at a local bank, used his position at the bank to review personally identifia... More...   $0 (02-27-2021 - AR)

Little Rock, Arkansas health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Blake Yoder, age 29, who was charged with conspiracy to violate anti-kickback statute (18 U.S.C. 371).

Yoder joins seven others who have pleaded guilty: Albert Glenn Hudson, 40, of Sherwood; Derek Clifton, 39, of Alexander; Donna Crowder, 66, of North Little Rock; Jennifer Crowder (formerly Brac... More...   $0 (02-26-2021 - AR)

Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and monetary transactions in criminally derived property.

Kent Duane Anderson, age 50, was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.

Anderson was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 4, 2020. He pled guilty on November 5, 2020.
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Urban, Illinois counterfeit check scheme charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Tommie Slayton, 36, of the 2400 block of Clayton Boulevard, who was charged with engaging in a counterfeit check scheme that resulted in an estimated loss of more than $100,000.

On Oct. 20, 2020, U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid sentenced Slayton’s co-defendant Stephanie Lemons, 43, of ... More...   $0 (02-25-2021 - IL)

Springfield, Illinois fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Joshua Raymer, 45, with defrauding the Blue Ridge School District of approximately $336,276 over two years.

According to court documents, during the time Raymer carried out the scheme, from April 2016 to December 2018, he falsely represented to a district official that computer switches had failed, and rep... More...   $0 (02-25-2021 - )

Fort Wayne, Indiana wire fraud charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Katina Miller, who was charged with two counts of wire fraud.

On February 2, 2021, Miller pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and admitted devising a scheme to divert money for her benefit. On February 19, 2021 United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady accepted the guilty plea. According t... More...   $0 (02-25-2021 - IN)

Houston, Texas Ponzi scheme charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Leroy King, 74, of Dickerson Bay, Antigua, was charge with one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and one count of obstruction of justice for his role in obstructing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into SIB.

He was extradited to the United States in November 2019. King is a d... More...   $0 (02-25-2021 - TX)

Lexington, Kentucky sex trafficking charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Prince Bixler, 41, of Lexington, Kentucky, sex trafficking three victims.

In September 2020, a federal jury convicted Bixler of 15 federal felonies related to his extensive and violent sex and drug trafficking operation that forced young, drug-addicted women to prostitute and sell crack cocaine, her... More...   $0 (02-25-2021 - KY)

East St. Louis, Illinois - The United States of America alleged that R&W Builders, Inc. (R&W) of O’Fallon, Illinois, has agreed to pay the United States $400,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently obtaining construction contracts reserved for disadvantaged small businesses.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Progra... More...   $400000 (02-24-2021 - )

Milwaukee, Wisconsin fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Thomas Smith, age 46, with one count of bank fraud for his role in fraudulently obtaining over $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

Smith admitted that he fraudulently ... More...   $0 (02-24-2021 - WI)

Nashville, Tennessee health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Donald McCoy, 54, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who was charged with healthcare fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.

During the scheme, McCoy was a licensed psychologist by the State of Tennessee and was an authorized TennCare provider who provides individual psychotherapy and family psychothera... More...   $0 (02-23-2021 - TN)

Tulsa, Oklahoma mail fraud and money laundering criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, David Owen West, 59, who was charged with two counts of mail fraud and one count of money laundering.

“David West was a trusted employee for close to 30 years at Petco Petroleum. He violated that trust by engaging in schemes to defraud his employer as West helped himself to more than $400,000 ... More...   $0 (02-22-2021 - OK)

Grand Rapids, Michigan health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kenneth Nash, the owner of a South Haven home health agency, who was health care fraud. He admitted that his company, Universal Home Health Care, submitted claims for home health services totaling more than $750,000 when no physician had approved the services but, instead, employees forged physician sign... More...   $0 (02-21-2021 - MI)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Todd Mixon, age 50, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was charged with one count of wire fraud.

Mixon solicited potential victims to invest in investment groups or ventures, in which he promised to trade their pooled funds in the foreign exchange markets, and at the end of the venture, promised to return t... More...   $0 (02-20-2021 - LA)

Tyler, Texas conspiracy charged criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Mario Eleuterio Garcia-Sevilla, 44, of Grand Saline, Texas, and Juan Valazquez Delgadillo, 50, of Garland, Texas, who were charged with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents.

“Identification document fraud is a direct threat to the security of the United States and its citizens,... More...   $0 (02-19-2021 - TX)