Legal News for Boston, Massachusetts

United States of America v. Jacob Parlin

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with distribution of and possession with intent to distribute certain quantities of methamphetamine and conspiracy to do the same. In assessing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict in a criminal case, courts consider all the evidence admitted, without regard to whether the trial court's evid... More...

United States of America v. Antonio Bonheur

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized use, transfer, acquisition, alteration or possession of benefits, and wire fraud involving SNAP benefits. Antonio Bonheur, a 74-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti, owned the Jesula Variety Store on Blue Hill Avenue and shared a storefront with 21-year-old Saul Alisme, who was also charge... More...

United States of America v. Patrick J. Dolan

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers Paul Cirel and Evan Johnson represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Between November 2018 and November 2024, Patrick J. Dolan devised a scheme to defraud his clients and other individuals who entrusted Dolan to maintain funds in accounts he controlled for their benefit. Specifically, Dolan stole over $2 million that he was holding in esc... More...

United States of America v. Keion Rowell, a/k/a Keion J. Roswell, a/k/a Kuntzo

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor. Defendant's motion to suppress certain evidence against him was denied.... More...

Boston, Massachusetts health care fraud criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant. Over four years, Chang Goo Yoon submitted more than a million dollars in false health insurance claims, resulting in his conviction on two counts of health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1347. Yoon worked as a licensed physical therapist who owned and operated several clinics in Massachusetts. Between... More...

United States of America v. Michael Andrew Rodgers

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening interstate communications and extortion. On April 5, 2023, Michael Andrew Rodgers, 32, posted a threat on the Google review page of a Springfield medical practice that stated: “They gonna get what’s coming soon. […] Will be there in the morning to get them myself one way or another. Locked a... More...

United States of America v. Wuesley Pelaez Vela

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer Bryan Owens represented the Defendant charged with money laundering and conspiracy to distribute and poss with intent to distribute 200 grams or more of fentanyl. In 2019, an investigation began into a Colombia-based money laundering organization that was laundering drug proceeds on behalf of multiple drug trafficking organizations. Between 2020 an... More...

United States of America v. Abraham Heredia

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer Joseph Harty represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of Fentanyl. Abraham Heredia, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl. From at least November 2022 to June 2023, Heredia ... More...

United States of America v. Tuyet T. Martin

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to obstruct justice. Tuyet T. Martin, 55, of Pelham, N.H., was charged along with her brother Dean Tran, who was charged in a 28-count federal indictment for his fraudulent collection of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and his willful omission of consulting and rental income from his tax ... More...

United States of America v. Kenneth Mattoon

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzlement of labor union assets. Between May 2020 and May 2025, Kenneth Mattoon, 67, of West Yarmouth, embezzled funds from the Barnstable Massachusetts Department of Public Works Employees Local Number 3003 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO. Mattoon was an office... More...

United States of America v. Edward John Kay

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking in violaition of 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2)(B), which provides: (A) places that person in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to— (i) that person; (ii) an immediate family member (as defined in section 115) of that person; (iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that person;... More...

United States of America v. John Michael Sacco

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tax evasion. John Michael Sacco, 54, formerly of Quincy, managed construction projects under the name JMS Contracting. From 2014 through 2021, Sacco received over $9 million from JMS’s customers. Rather than depositing JMS’s gross receipts into business bank accounts, Sacco cashed most checks from customer... More...

United States of America v. Stephen L. Hochberg

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and to obstruction of justice. Stephen Hochberg, age 77, of Marlborough, and Charles D. Katz agreed in as early as 2014 to cheat the IRS. They agreed that Hochberg, who served as the Director of Corporate Services at Katz’s accounting firm and as Chief Operating Offi... More...

United States of America v. Ajinomoto Cambrooke, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for which it was not eligible. Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) on March 29, 2020, to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were sufferi... More...

United States of America v. Lonnie Smith-Matthews

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, theft of government money, bank fraud, and money laundering. Lonnie Smith-Matthews, 33, was charged with two counts of wire fraud; one count of theft of government funds; two counts of bank fraud; and two counts of money laundering. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Denise J. Casper scheduled sentenc... More...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Aamir Sylvia and Atiana Suazo adn

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendants charged with armed carjacking in Dorchester. One suspect pointed a gun at the victim and that a second suspect was armed, according to the Boston Police Department. The suspects fled the scene with the stolen vehicle, which was later recovered. Aamir Sylvia, 19, and Atiana Suazo, 20, were charged. A minor involved in ... More...

United States of America v. Santo Leandro Duverge Tejeda, a/k/a “La Niña”

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. anto Leandro Duverge Tejeda, a/k/a “La Niña,” 29, was indicted on two counts of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. The defendant will be arraigned in federal court in ... More...

United States of America v. Isaiah Johnson

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawfully purchasing a semi-automatic pistol for an unlicensed individual. In February 2024, Isaiah Johnson, 24, of Merrimack, N.H., purchased a tan-colored 9-millimeter Glock 19X semi-automatic pistol from a gun store in New Hampshire, for a co-conspirator who was ineligible for a gun license. Johnson ultima... More...

United States of America v. Cory Primo

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking conspiracy. From in and around April 2023 until August 2023, Cory Primo, 43, of Fall River, conspired with others to traffic a Massachusetts adult woman and two minors. Primo indicated that she started helping her co-defendant sell the victims because she was “broke.” Primo sent pictur... More...

Yoav G. Stearns v. Harvard University

Boston, Massachusetts civil rights lawyers represented the the Plaintiff who accused university of acting with indifference to his complaints about campus protesters who he said had harassed him because he is Jewish. Yoav G. Stearns v. Harvard University refers to a significant antisemitism lawsuit filed by former Harvard Business School student Yoav Segev, alleging Harvard's "deliberate indiff... More...

Cayse Llorens v. Lexshare, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination Civil Rights Act violation theory.... More...

United States of America v. Lerei Gooding

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with, conspiracy to distribut and posses with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other controlled substance. ... More...

Jason R. Nelson v. Navistar, Inc., et al.

Boston, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on product liability theories. AI Overview Massachusetts product liability law holds manufacturers, distributors, and sellers strictly liable for injuries caused by defective products, meaning you don't need to prove negligence. You can file a claim for a product that has a design defect, ma... More...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Jorge A. Castillo

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 13B, and intimidation of a witness, in violation of G. L. c. 268, § 13B. On one occasion, J.S. was at the defendant's home when she came in from playing outside to get something from the kitchen.... More...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Quahir Q.

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented juvenille Defendant charged with possession of a firearm. On March 28, 2022, administrators at the Dearborn School in the Roxbury section of Boston learned that a student might be in possession of a weapon. School administrators performed an administrative search, which revealed that the juvenile possessed a nine millimeter Glock ... More...