Kansas City, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.In January 2022, K. Kevin James, 65, of, Lenexa pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. James was a co-owner of KC United LLC, a holding company for multiple construction companies in Kansas City, Kansas, including Miller Paving LLC. According to court documents, James admitted that from 2008 to 2010, he coor... More...    $0 (11-15-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Kansas man on multiple charges for alleged crimes related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which is a federal law providing financial relief to businesses suffering economic losses because of the COVIID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the Small Business ... More...    $0 (08-19-2022 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) out of disability benefits.

Bruce Hay, 53, of Greeley, a U.S. Army veteran and former Osawatomie resident, fraudulently misrepresented and exaggerated the extent of symptoms related to a purported conversion disorder diagnosis to receive VA disability ben... More...    $0 (08-11-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

Universal Helicopters Inc. (UHI), a private helicopter flight instructor training company, and Dodge City Community College (DC3), which operates campuses in Dodge City, Kansas, and Chandler, Arizona, have agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False... More...    $0 (08-16-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on breach of contract theories.


The appellants are some of the corn producers who took the first track, filing individual actions. (We call these corn producers the "Kellogg farmers.") The Kellogg farmers alleged that their former attorneys had failed to disclose the benefits of participating as class... More...    $0 (07-26-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with mail fraud and making false representations in a bankruptcy proceeding.

In January 2018, Nana Baidoobonso – Iam, 69, engaged in a scheme in which he mailed an Involuntary Petition in Bankruptcy to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas. The defendant signed the Involuntary Petition in Bankruptcy un... More...    $0 (06-17-2022 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements on federal tax returns.

Dawna Kellogg, 61, of Williamsburg—while employed in the accounting department at the Johnson County District Court—stole at least $776,691.50 in cash from her employer between January 2010 and June 2017. Kellogg’s legal name was Dawna Brandt ... More...    $0 (04-21-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with failure to pay over payroll taxes.

Jesus Perez-Aguayo, 39, of Wichita as owner and operator of two companies, JLP Construction and JP Remodeling, had a responsibility to collect employee payroll taxes then forward the funds to the Internal Revenue Service. Between 2014 and 2019, Perez-Aguayo admits he didn’t pay ... More...    $0 (04-08-2022 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements.

Feng Tao, a/k/a Franklin Tao, age 50, of Lawrence, Kansas worked as a full-time professor at KU. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, in 2018, Tao accepted a position with Fuzhou University in China that designated him as a Changjiang Scholar Di... More...    $0 (04-07-2022 - KS)

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax fraud.

In November 2021, Scott Tucker, 59, of Leawood pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false or fraudulent tax return. According to court documents, Tucker owned a professional auto racing business called Level 5 Sports. On a 1040-tax return in 2010, Tucker reported that Level 5 had approximately $... More...    $0 (03-02-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

In June 2020, Donald Cook, 65, took part in a scheme to defraud the state governments of Arizona, Texas, and Ohio. Cook admitted he knew that an individual, identified in court documents only as “A.T.â€�, was falsely using other people’s identities to apply for state unemployment benefits. Cook allo... More...    $0 (08-11-2021 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represent represented Defendant charged with grand theft.

Michael Tae Kim Ahlers, 50, of Lenexa, Kansas, was was charged for stealing more than $556,000 from his former employer, the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), as well as from KUMC Research Institute and from KU Endowment. In February, Ahlers pleaded guilty to charges of bank fra... More...    $0 (06-30-2021 - KS)

Liberal, KS - class action lawyer, recovery of underpaid gas royalties


This class action seeks recovery of underpaid gas royalties. It is brought by about
2,300 royalty owners against the operator, Oil Producers, Inc. of Kansas, known as OPIK
in this litigation. OPIK sells the raw natural gas at the wellhead to third parties, who, in
turn, make the gas fit to enter our... More...    $0 (10-02-2020 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement.

Michael Panethiere, 42, Olathe, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. In his plea, he admitted he committed the crime while he was employed by Palmer Electric Company in Pleasant Valley, Mo. He used his position to generate and sign company checks that he made payable to himself. He tra... More...    $0 (09-30-2020 - KS)

Kansas City, KS - The United States of America sued Trina Health–Wichita NW, LLC and Jack West on a False Claims Act theory for submitting false claims to Medicare and TRICARE.

Trina Health–Wichita NW, LLC, located in Wichita, Kan., and Jack West of Dallas, Texas, one of the company’s principals, agreed to pay the United States $775,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False... More...    $0 (02-29-2020 - KS)

Kansas City, KS - The United States of America charged Coe Downing with mail fraud.

A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to a fraud in which a Lenexa company he worked for spent more than $685,000 to buy electrical and wire cable that the man sold to another company and pocketed the money, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

Coe Downing, 48, Charlotte, N.C., pleaded guil... More...    $0 (01-30-2020 - KS)

Topeka, KS - United States of America charged Thomas S. Fritzel with conspiracy to commit fraud.

A Kansas building contractor pleaded guilty to conspiring to deprive the city of Lawrence of sales tax revenues in connection with the development of a seven-story hotel adjacent to the University of Kansas campus.

Thomas S. Fritzel, 54, Lawrence, Kan., pleaded guilty to one... More...    $0 (01-10-2020 - KS)