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United States of America v. Vanessa Valdez

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and sch

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United States of America v. Eric Van Vleet

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary prescriptions. From February 2018 to September 2019, Eric Van Vleet, 30, of Delray Beach, Florida, operated Hype Med LLC, which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions through a telemarketing and telemedicine scheme. As part of the health care fraud

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United States of America v. Jesse Foote

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme. From December 2017 to March 2021, Jesse Foote, 60, of Fairfield, Connecticut, conspired with overseas telemarking call centers, DME suppliers, telemedicine companies, and doctors to submit fraudulent claims to health care b

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United States of America v. Joseph Campbell and John Duncan

Kansas City, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) by submitting false information on applications for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Joseph Campbell, 61, of Olathe and John Duncan, 65, of Topeka are both charged with one count of wire fraud conspirac

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United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea

Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to steal more than $160,000 of benefits from low income and food insecure individuals and families. Alexandru Telescu, 29, and Aramis Manolea, 35, have been charged in a 26-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of devic

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United States of America v. Jason L. Hemingway

Springfield, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining $316,062 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and for laundering over $35,000 of PPP funds. Jason L. Hemingway, 47, was charged with two counts each of bank fraud and making a false statement on a loan applicatio

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United States of America v. Shermeca McCrary

Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud more than $100,000 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”) benefits administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) and managed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services (“DSS”), pl

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United States of America v. Do Hyeong Kwon

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraud and Manipulation. Do Hyeong Kwon was accused of committing wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud in connection with KWON’s fraud centered around Terraform Labs PTE, Ltd. (“Terraform”), and the cryptocurrencies launched by Terraform. KWON was extr

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United States of America v. Vincenzo Minutolo

New Haven, Connecticut, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds. Nn March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which provided emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. One source of relief provided by the CARES A

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United States of America v. Norman Dixon

Newman, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with dogfighting and CARES Act Fraud. Norman Dixson arraigned on federal charges of sponsoring and exhibiting a dog in an animal fighting venture, promoting an animal fighting venture, animal crushing, and wire fraud. “The indictment alleges that Dixson viciously abused dogs and repeatedly lied to obtain COVID relie

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United States of America v. Quintin Flanagin

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged one count of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, one count of false statements, and one count of money laundering. Quintin Flanagin, 45, of Colby, Kansas, was accused for defrauding clients of his accounting firm, who were also his relatives, of more than $400,000. As a certified public accountant (CPA), Flanagin us

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United States of America v. Monica L. Thompson

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of Aggravated Identity Theft. 8 USC 1028A(a)(1): Aggravated Identity Theft; Forfeiture Allegation: 18 USC 981(a)(1)(C), 982(a)(2), and 1028(b), and 28 USC 2461: Fraud Forfeiture 18 USC 1028A(a)(1): Aggravated Identity Theft; Forfeiture Allegation: 18 USC 981(a)(1)(C), 982(a)(2), and 1028(b), and 28 USC

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Stacy Hovan v. Metroploitan Life Insurance Company

Miami, Florida, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a an ERISA law theory.

Stacy Hovan sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974 (“ERISA”), challenging MetLife’s termination of her long- term disability benefit.

Hovan was employed as a commercial litiga

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United States of America v. Charles “Chuck” Wright, Amos Durham, Lawson B. Watson

Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

Charles “Chuck” Wright, 60, the former sheriff of Spartanburg County; Amos Durham 61, a former chaplain for the department; and Lawson B. Watson 63, a former employee, have pleaded guilty for their participation in a public corruption scheme that defrauded the county of public funds for

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United States of America v. Charles “Chuck” Wright, Amos Durham, Lawson B. Watson

Spartanburg, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit theft.

Charles “Chuck” Wright, 60, the former sheriff of Spartanburg County; Amos Durham 61, a former chaplain for the department; and Lawson B. Watson 63, a former employee, have pleaded guilty for their participation in a public corruption scheme that defrauded th

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Texas Department of Family and Protective Services v, D.V.

Austin, Texas, family law lawyer represent Defendant in a parental termination action.

As future-Chief Justice Pope explained for the Court nearly half a century ago, for example, "[a]ctions which break the ties between a parent and child can never be justified without the most solid and substantial reasons," and so "in an action which permanently sunders those ties," the "proceedings [sh

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United States of America v. Crandall Speights

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing checks out of the mail.

A Wilmington man was sentenced on September 18, 2025, to 70 months in prison for amassing over $900,000 in fraudulent proceeds through multiple fraud schemes over the course of years.

According to court documents, Crandall Speights, 43, drove around neighborhoods

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United States of America v. SGO Corporation Limited

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Philippine Bribery and Money Laundering.


A federal grand jury in Miami returned a superseding indictment today charging a multinational company that provides voting machine and election services for participating in a scheme to pay and launder more than $1 million in bribes to a Philippine government offic

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Kristine Roth v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America

Detroit, Michigan, insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an E.R.I.S.A. claim.

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ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, is a federal law that sets minimum standards for employee benefit plans in private industry, such as health and retirement plans. It was created to protect the interests of plan participants and beneficiaries by requiring plans

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Sage Architecture, Inc. v. Chris Lingle

San Antonio, Texas, commercial litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a fraud claim.

On September 16, 2022, Sage filed its original petition against Sarah, Lingle, and Aura. Sage alleged Sarah, individually and on behalf of Aura, committed violations of the Texas Theft Liability Act against Sage for her and Lingle's benefit. Sage additionally asserted Sarah committed fraud by non-

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Clifford L. Grover, Jr. v. Social Security Administration

Buffalo, New York, social security disability lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for Social Security DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS.

Social Security DIWC/DIWW benefits are Disabled Insured Worker's Claim and Disabled Insured Worker's Insurance benefits, which are the same as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). These are monthly cash benef

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United States of America v. Cody Holmes, Steven Taylor

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Fraud in Public Homelessness Funds, seven counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of money laundering.

Federal law enforcement today announced the arrest of the former chief financial officer at a downtown Los Angeles-based developer of affordable housing and crimin

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United States of America v. Oswaldo Gonzalez

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Oswaldo Gonzalez appeals his conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine while on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, 46 U.S.C. §§ 70503(a)(1), 70506(b)

(a) Prohibitions.-While on boar

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Burt Schleiger v. Social Security Administration

Benton, Washington, social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of his application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits.

DIWC and DIWW are abbreviations for different Social Security disability programs
. DIWC stands for "Disabled Insured Widow's Claim," which provides benefits to a disabled widow or widower who is at least 50 yea

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United States of America v. Haitem Taylor Abid

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud by wire, radio or television in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, which provides:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transm

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