Legal News for Atlanta, Georgia

United States of America v. Sharon Henderson

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641. Reported by Kent Morlan Sharon Henderson, 67, of Covington, Georgia, while holding elected office in the Georgia House of Representatives, illegal... More...

United States of America v. Amjad Ibrahim

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tax evasion. Reported by Kent Morlan Amjad Ibrahim, an attorney since 1994, willfully evaded paying federal income taxes for tax years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, resulting in nearly $1.5 million in unpaid... More...

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with depriving another of civil rights and charging records. Reported by: Kent Morlan Shevoy Brown, a former officer with the Hapeville, Georgia Police Department, abused his power to violently and unnecessari... More...

State of Georgia v. Jahmare Brown

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Jahmare Brown, age 21, accused of stabbing 23-year-old Alyssa Paige on the Atlanta Beltline.... More...

,center> United States of America v. Tracy Jones

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Section 8 housing fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Starting in April 2017 Tracy Jones served as Senior Vice President over the Housing Choice Voucher Program at the Atlanta Housing Authority, overseeing one of the largest Section 8 programs in the country. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development fund... More...

United States of America v. Edwin Brant Frost IV

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Report by Kent Morlan Edwin Brant Frost IV, the founder of First Liberty Building & Loan, was accused of perpetrating a $140 million Ponzi Scheme that bilked mostly wealthy Georgia Republicans out of millions.... More...

United States of America v. Poul Thorsen

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering charges after his extradition from Germany. By Kent Morlan “Poul Thorsen allegedly stole more than $1 million in federal grant money by submitting fabricated invoices and diverting funds to ... More...

United States of America v. Shanda Goode, Carnisha Hamilton, Juantez Sutton and Tonya Bailey

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with stealing valuable items from the mail. “Francina Sutton worked with two corrupt U.S. Postal Service mail carriers to steal dozens of checks, credit cards, and gift cards from the mail and separately conspired with an assistant bank manager to launder a stolen $4.9 million U.S. Treasury check,” said U.S. Attor... More...

United States of America v. Lester T. Jones, Jr.

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Lester T. Jones, Jr., joined the Accounting and Finance Department of ATL Hawks, LLC (“the Hawks”) in 2016. Following his promotion to Senior Vice President of Finance in August 2021, Jones became the most senior accounting executive for the Hawks after the Chief Financial Officer. Beginning in e... More...

United States of America v. Adam Schlueter

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually and physically abusing two minors while he was stationed overseas with the U.S. Army. Adam Schlueter was stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany from 2009 until 2013, while enlisted in the U.S. Army. In Germany, he physically, emotionally, and sexually abused two minor victims. At trial, both minors described be... More...

United States of America v. Dr. Jitesh Patel and Advanced Urology, Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia commercial litigation lawyers represented Advanced Urology, Inc. and Dr. Jitesh Patel accused of violation the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for services that were either unnecessary or never performed. The government’s investigation began after a former Advanced Urology employee filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Advanced Urology performed unn... More...

United States of America v. Traon Turk

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Traon Turk, an armed felon and drug dealer led police on a car chase in Marietta, Georgia, to avoid being arrests. On April 4, 2020, the Cobb County Police Department observed an SUV that reportedly had bee... More...

United States of America v. Eijroghene Okuma

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer Warrent Lietz represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Eijroghene O. Okuma also known as Eijro O. Okuma abused a position of trust to carry out a calculated scheme that stole millions from an elderly victim,” said Peter Ellis, Acting Special Agent in Charge of FBI Georgia. “The FBI is committed to protecting older Americans from financial... More...

United States of America v. Brittany Hudson

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud, laundering the fraudulent proceeds from that scheme, lying to a franchising company while on pretrial release, and forging the signature of former Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. on fake court documents Brittany Hudson and her literal partner in crime brazenly stole nearly $10 million from ... More...

United States of America v. Jamarcus Mosley

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with computer fraud, extortion, and cyberstalking. Jamarcus Mosley, ate 22, of Mobile, Alabama, tricked hundreds of young victims into giving him control to their social media accounts, accessing their private images and videos, and threatening to release those items if they did not comply with his demands, including se... More...

Statham V. Quang

Atlanta, Georgia, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a tort claim. Is the employer vicariously liable for the actions of its employee? The case involved the appellate review where the Court of Appeals vacated its prior decision and adopted the opinion of the Supreme Court after the Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' judgment, subsequently directing a reversal of p... More...

United States of America v. Felecia Ingram

Atlanta, Georgia, Defendant charged with stealing gift cards from The Home Depot. Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant employed by The Home Deport accused of stealing over $4 million in gift cards from her employer. While employed at The Home Depot, the Felecia Ingram abused the trust placed in her and stole a staggering $4 million from the company. “She engaged in a calculat... More...

United States of America v. Malachi Mullings

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Malachi Mullings pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to his involvement in laundering millions of dollars for an African fraud scheme. About a month later, while awaiting his sentence, Mullings’s bond was revoked after he punched his girlfriend in the face. After ... More...

C.B. et al. v. Henry County School District

Atlanta, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an ndividuals with Disabilities Education Act violation theory. C.B. is a student with Down syndrome who attends school in the Henry County School District in Georgia. Because C.B. has Down syndrome, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act required Henry County to develop an individualized education program ... More...

United States of America v. Hassan Pimentel

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking in cocaine, possession of MDMA, and possession of drug-related objects.... More...

United States of America v. Malachi Mullings

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and seven counts of money laundering. Malachi Mullings pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to his involvement in laundering millions of dollars for an African fraud scheme. About a month later, while awaiting his sentence, Mullings’s bond was revoked... More...

United States of America ex rel., et a.l v. Arthritis & Rheumatology Center, P.C., et al.

Atlanta, Georgia, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of using medical assistants to perform infusion services in violation of Georgia law and submitted claims for those services to Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act. “Physicians who disrega... More...

United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Drive Planning, LLC et al.

Atlanta, Georgia commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendants accused of securities fraud.... More...

United States of America v. Roberto Najera Gutierrez, a/k/a Kunfu Panda and a/k/a La Gallina,

Atlanta, Georgie, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to manufacture and distribute cocaine that he knew would be imported into the United States. Agents identified Roberto Najera Gutierrez as a then-high-ranking member of the cartel who allegedly led and coordinated the transportation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine by boat from Colombia and Ec... More...

State of Georgia v. Antonio Brown

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Antonio Brown was accused stabbing Eleanor Bowles, age 77, to death in her Buckhead townhome.... More...