Legal News for Atlanta, Georgia

,center> State of Georgia v. Latonian Patterson

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with e two counts of murder, aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit a felony and a weapons possession charge. On Sept. 16, police arrested 19-year-old Markel Daniel in the 2200 block of Polar Rock Terrace. Patterson and Daniel are suspects in the death of an adult male, who police found suffering from gunshot ... More...

United States of America v. Edwin Brant Frost IV

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with running a Ponzi scheme. Edwin Brant Frost IV, conned 300 hundred investors out of $70 million.... More...

United States of America v. Roosevelt Tobias "Toby" Bailey

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 and money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956. Roosevelt Tobias “Toby” Bailey, a Duluth, Georgia, engaged in a Ponzi scheme from approximately October 2018 through October 2022, Bailey allegedly operated two fraudulent investment schemes through his company, Borg... More...

United States of America v. Gabriel Covarrubias

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement in application for a passport in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1542, and impersonating a citizen of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 911. Gabriel Covarrubias, 44, an alien residing in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is alleged to have voted in person using a false name in the November 5, 2024 f... More...

United States of America v. Mercedes Henry

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Mercedes Henry, was employed as a universal banker at Ameris Bank at multiple locations in the Atlanta area. On at least six occasions from September 2021 to November 2021, Henry allegedly used six Ameris customers’ bank account numbers and identifiers to link the customers’ Ameris accounts to accou... More...

United States ex rel. Allen v. Capstone Diagnostics, LLC, et al.

Atlanta, Georgia, civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act. Jay Johnson, the former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta-based clinical laboratory Capstone Diagnostics, LLC (“Capstone”); Austin Whiles, Capstone’s former Chief Sales Officer and Vice President of Business Development; and associated entities ... More...

United States of America v. Brittany Hudson

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy and intent to commit fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349, fraud by wire in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1957, and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1957. Reported by ... More...

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...