MoreLaw
|
|
United States of America v. Michael J. Moore, et al.
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute meth. Michael J. Moore, 47, of Inglewood, California, admitted to conspiring to launder the proceeds of methamphetamine and oxycodone trafficking. Moore also pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute the drugs. As part of Moore’s plea, the parties involved ... More... ( 05-17-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Mark Alan Thomas
Columbus, Ohio criminal Defense lawyer represented Defendant charged mail fraud. From 2012 through August 2019, Mark Alan Thomas, 63, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, defrauded a client and took $882,000 of the elderly demented victim’s money without her knowledge or permission to use it for his own benefit. “Thomas’s grave abuse of power over this vulnerable victim demands today... More... ( 05-02-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Christopher Brenner Cook and Jonathan Allen Frost
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, and Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of Katy, Texas, and West Lafayette, Indiana, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists by attacking power grads in the United States in... More... ( 04-21-2023 - OH) |
|
Justin Hodson v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, et al.
Columbus, Ohio consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Fair Credit Reporting Act. This case was filed in the Common Pleas Court Of Ross County, OH, 22CI462 and was removed to federal court by the Defendants. View other drafts Consumer credit law is a body of law that protects consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices by creditors... More... ( 04-17-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Ronald Lee Jacobs
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with armed robbery. One October evening in 2020, a man walked into a Walgreens in Columbus, Ohio. He was wearing dark clothes, and his pants and shoes had white stains on them. The man placed a pack of gum on the counter and asked the clerk for cigarettes. When the clerk requested identification, the man r... More... ( 03-28-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Marco R. Merino
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute more than eight kilograms of fentanyl and accepting bribes to protect the transportation of cocaine. ... More... ( 02-02-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Freeda Flynn
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally distributing controlled substances. MoreLaw Legal News For Columbus Freeda Flynn, 69, formerly of St. Clairsville, unlawfully pr... More... ( 01-11-2023 - OH) |
|
Deanna L. Puskas v. Delaware County, Ohio, et al.
Columbus, Ohio personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendants on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. MoreLaw Legal News For Columbus This § 1983 action involves the shooting ... More... ( 01-05-2023 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Seth Nyamekye
Columbus, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1956, which provides: (1) Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawf... More... ( 10-13-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. David Scott Scofield
Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense. n May 2019, law enforcement officials seized five firearms, three silencers, more than 6,300 rounds of ammunition, more than 2,000 bullets, nearly 39,000 primers, two canisters of pepper spray, an expandable baton and a stun gun from Scofield’s resi... More... ( 09-14-2022 - OH) |
|
Amanda Masters v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al.
Columbus, Ohio civil rights violation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a right to medicaid theory. {¶ 1} The appellants in this case are Amanda and Bud Masters, individually and as mother and father and next friends of F.M., a minor (collectively the "Masters"). The appellees are the Ohio Department of Medicaid ("Department"), Maureen Corcoran, Director of the De... More... ( 09-02-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Jason E. Adkins
Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with orchestrating a $50 million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 50 investors. Jason E. Adkins, 46, orchestrated a $50 million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 50 investors by soliciting victims from all over the country and around the world. The victims in this case had their lives upended, the... More... ( 08-30-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Thomas Romano
Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing opioids. Thomas Romano, 72, of Wheeling, West Virginia, owned and operated a self-named pain management clinic where his clients traveled hundreds of miles to obtain prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. For his opioid and other controlled substance prescriptions, Romano only accepted cash... More... ( 08-15-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Mark Thomas
Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud. Mark Thomas, the former Belmont County Attorney, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. ... More... ( 08-11-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Brandon J. Campbell
Columbus, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with two separate armed robberies of United States Postal Carriers. Brandon J. Campbell, 21, admitted in March 2022 to using violence and a firearm to endanger the mail carriers’ lives and steal property from them. He robbed two postal carriers at gunpoint on separate dates in September 2021. On Sept. 8,... More... ( 08-04-2022 - Oh) |
|
United States of America v. Michael D. Valentine
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with dealing and possessing hundreds of grams of deadly fentanyl on a rural property in southern Ohio. Michael D. Valentine pleaded guilty to all five counts contained in an indictment returned against him in April following a six-month investigation by law enforcement agencies in West Virginia and Ohio. Investigators fo... More... ( 07-13-2022 - OH) |
|
Elizabeth Yorba v. Barrington School, LLC, et al.
Columbus, Ohio employment law lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on Fair Labor Standards Act violation theories. On February 17, 2021, Representative Plaintiff filed this case (the “Lawsuit” or the “Action”) against Defendants on behalf of herself and other allegedly similarly situated current and former hourly pre-school employees. (ECF No. 1). ... More... ( 07-05-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Kamar L. Cox
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm. A jury convicted Cox of the crimes of robbery and illegal possession of a firearm following a trial in March. According to court documents and trial testimony, on Aug. 21, 2020, an individual working with the ATF attempted to conduct a controlled purchase of a machi... More... ( 07-05-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Denia I. Avila
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to attempt kidnapping. Denia L. Avila, age 39, of Columbus, recruited seven co-conspirators to plan and carry out her plan to kidnap the couple near their Hilliard residence. Two conspirators dressed in black facemasks approached the victims as they entered their vehicle about 5:30 a.m. on November 25, 20... More... ( 07-01-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Brime
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with threatening to bring a bomb to a local reproductive health services facility. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Brime, 26, also threatened to kill a patient whom he believed was seeking reproductive health services, specifically an abortion, at the clinic. On April 11, 2021, Brime made two separate telep... More... ( 06-29-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Timothy W. Wright
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sexually exploiting at least five minors and possessing child pornography. Timothy W. Wright admitted to placing a hidden camera in the bathroom of his home, thereby producing pornographic images of two minors via that hidden camera. To save videos or images of the minors from the hidden camera to his phone, Wright ... More... ( 06-16-2022 - OH) |
|
Melissa McFadden v. City of Columbus
Columbus, Ohio civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a employment discrimination theory. Columbus, Ohio Police Ltd. Melissa MaFadden sued the City claiming that she was discriminated against by the City and retaliated against when she complained.... More... ( 06-14-2022 - OH) |
|
Zaneta Shivers v. Charter Communications, LLC
Columbus, Ohio employment lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful termination theory. In February 2018, Ms. Shivers was promoted to the position of Credit Service Associate (“CSA”) at Charter. (ECF No. 25-1, ¶ ¶ 4-6.) CSAs worked with customers on collections, payment exceptions, and refunds. (ECF No. 25-2, ¶ 7.) They “primarily performed two tasks: (i... More... ( 06-03-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Shawn Nelms
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy. Shawn Nelms, 29, pleaded guilty in September 2021 to his part in furthering the violence of the local Crips gang known as T&A. The racketeering conspiracy first charged in 2018 includes five murders, at least 26 attempted murders, and other violent and drug-trafficking crimes. ... More... ( 06-01-2022 - OH) |
|
United States of America v. Dawit Mamay
Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy involving shipments of narcotics from Arizona to Ohio. Dawit Mamay, 24, is one of four defendants charged federally in a narcotics conspiracy involving at least 17 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl. As part of this case, law enforcement seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash fr... More... ( 05-13-2022 - OH) |