Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bankruptcy fraud.

Leisinger admitted that, on December 8, 2022, she filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, by means of sworn court filings. When a debtor files a petition seeking protection from creditors under the bankruptcy laws, a “bankrupt... More...    $0 (12-22-2023 - IA)

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in the voter fraud scheme during the Iowa 2020 primary and general elections.

Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City, perpetrated a scheme to fraudulently generate votes for her husband in the primary election for Iowa’s 4th U.S. Congressional District in June 2020. After Taylor’s husband lost in th... More...    $0 (11-21-2023 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking three adult females by force, fraud, and coercion and kidnapping one of the adult females; 30 years for sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor female; and 10 years for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

Richard Thomas Ball, 47, used deceptive and coercive tactics as... More...    $0 (10-27-2023 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with forty-nine fraud- and tax-related charges.

For several years, Thein Maung, age 47, and Phyo Mi, age 21, of Ottumwa, Iowan ran a fraudulent tax-preparation business out of their family’s Ottumwa home. In exchange for a cash fee, Maung and Mi would prepare and file their customers’ tax returns. Maung and ... More...    $0 (10-02-2023 - IA)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Maegen Catherine Fortin, age 40, from Otsego, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to one count of financial institution fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Information from Fortin’s plea and sentencing showed that between March 2020 and September 2021, Fortin engaged in fraudulent cond... More...    $0 (08-07-2023 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented 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 transmitted by m... More...    $0 (04-26-2023 - IA)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa civil litigation lawyers represented relator Plaintiff who sued Defendant on Qui Tam False Claims Act violation theory.

WDC Acquisitions LLC d/b/a Wellman Dynamics located in Creston, Iowa, will pay $500,000 to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for failing to conduct contractually required testing and falsifying test results for parts used in military ... More...    $0 (08-08-2022 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with tax and bank fraud.

Thomas Sieren, age 59, is charged in a 24-count indictment returned on July 19, 2022. According to court documents, Sieren was the Vice President of TCS Fabricating, Inc., a local fabrication company. TCS Fabricating, Inc. was required by law to withhold taxes from employee wages and to pay the wit... More...    $0 (08-08-2022 - IA)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on breach of contract and product liability theories.


Adrian commenced this action by filing a petition at law and jury demand in the Iowa District Court for Linn County in December 2015. Doc. 4. At the time, the lawsuit named several other parties as plaintiffs and defendants. Id. Navistar and Centr... More...    $0 (07-01-2022 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking an adult victim by force, fraud, and coercion; five years for facilitation of prostitution; and 40 years for distribution of a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21.

According to evidence presented at the four and a half-day trial and court documents submitted for sentencing, Redd u... More...    $0 (03-25-2022 - IA)

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with fraud.

An Arnolds Park man who defrauded a Florida innkeeper while on supervised release on bank fraud and wire charges was sentenced on February 1, 2022, to three years in federal prison. Ronald Goldberg, age 63, from Arnold’s Park, Iowa, received the prison term after a three-day hearing in federal court in... More...    $0 (02-03-2022 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with money laundering and making false claims for tax refunds.

Jeffrey Allan Kock, age 50, was convicted by a jury on September 29, 2021, of a total of 13 counts, including five counts of the willful failure to file individual income tax returns; two counts of making false claims against the United States; wire fra... More...    $0 (02-04-2022 - IA)

Davenport, Iowa criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with mail fraud.

Chelsea Lynn Gless, was indicted and convicted of Mail Fraud.

Gless, age 32, was the manager and part-owner of Royal Metals Group, a business that purported to buy and sell precious metals for customers. Over a period of nearly four years, Gless made false representations to clients and inst... More...    $0 (01-12-2022 - IA)

Davenport, IA: Conspiracy to commit money laundering criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Florence Rosale Julio, age 39, of Brunswick, Georgia.

Defendant was indicted for engaging in a conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a scheme to obtain federal tax refunds by fraud using the identification information of dozens of University of Iowa employees.

Ju... More...    $0 (09-08-2021 - IA)

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Duncan v. Ford Motor Credit, Repossessors, Inc., 919 N.W.2d 768(Table) (Iowa App. 2018)
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919 N.W.2d 768 (Table)

Shannon DUNCAN, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
FORD MOTOR CREDIT, REPOSSESSORS, INC. and Bruce Shores, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 17-1122

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

Filed June 20, 2018

Dennis G. Larson of Larson ... More...    $0 (06-20-2018 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking.

Marlin Santana Thomas, age 45, of Des Moines, was charged for sex trafficking six victims by force, fraud, and coercion.

Thomas pleaded guilty to sex trafficking six adult victims and admitted to trafficking a 14 year-old victim. Thomas admitted in his plea agreement to trafficking victim... More...    $0 (05-18-2021 - IA)

Grand Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Guatemalan who was charged with possessing a fraudulent social security card.

Miguel Padilla, age 46, a citizen of Guatemala illegally present in the United States and living in Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 3, 2021, guilty plea to one count of unlawful possession of identification documents.

In a ple... More...    $0 (05-08-2021 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1344.... More...    $0 (04-19-2021 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa computer hacking charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Rachel Manna, age 33, of West Des Moines, was acquainted with Danielle Taff, who was employed as a contractor paralegal by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa. Taff was assigned to the office’s Civil Division, where she worked exclusively on matters related to civil forfeiture and ... More...    $0 (02-06-2021 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa mail fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jeffrey Scott Dworek, age 55, formerly from the Des Moines area, was charged with fraudulently stealing $1.6 million from the Metro Waste Authority (MWA).

Jeff Dworek served as the Director of Operations at MWA. Over the course of nearly five years, Dworek stole money from MWA. Dworek created a front compan... More...    $0 (01-18-2021 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa sex trafficking children charged criminal defense lawyers represented defendants.

Three defendants were charge sex trafficking children.

On December 7, 2020, Tommy Tate Collins of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to 210 months in prison following a guilty plea to one count of child sex trafficking. Collins admitted in his plea agreement that he trafficked a minor child... More...    $0 (12-27-2020 - IA)