Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with hree counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the U.S. Department of Labor and Illinois Department of Employment Security. Reported by Kent Morlan Beginning in January of 2021, Titanna Ammons’s unemp

Hilo, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree negligent homicide, manslaughter and other crimes in connection with a fatal traffic collision. Reported by Kent Morlan Kade Smith, age 36, accused of operating a vehicle under the influence of an

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Danny Seibel, 55, of Lindsay, Oklahoma, was an executive at FNBL from in or around February 2007 until his termination in September 2024. As alleged, Seibel cause

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: DU8TFENT5, AGGRAVATED TRAFFICKING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-415D4 Date of Offense: 12/12/2024 HAWKINS, CODY CHASE Disposed: DEFERRED, 03/27/2025. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO TRAFFICKING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS(DU8TFENT1) Violation of 63 O.S. 2-415 HAWK

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan Stacia Sue Wilson pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. Wilson admitted that, while she was employed as a vice president of St. Clair County State Bank in Osc

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with aggravated murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Kouri Richins was accused of poisoning her husband to get his wealth and to get insurance money on a $100,000 life insurance policy she purchased. The prosecution asserted that Kouri killed Eric for his money because her business was failing. The called 911

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of controlled substance. Reported by Kent Morlan An officer and his K-9 partner were near the interstate when the officer observed a vehicle containing two occupants, both with sunken cheek bones. The officer followed the vehicle onto the i

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and money laundering. Reported by Kent Morlan Elnar Zarbailov, 42, of Staten Island, New York, and dual citizen of the United States and Azerbaijan, was a fixer and money launderer for the foreign-based Organization that spearheaded the largest health care fraud case ever prosecuted by the D

Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States Government, mail fraud, and money laundering. By Kent Morlan Joel Rufus French, age 47 of Armory, Mississippi, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud of the United States. French worked with overseas telemarketing call centers that pressured elderly Americans to provide thei

Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank theft. By Kent Morlan Laura Parrish embezzled funds from one family, including one family member who was deceased, in the approximate amount of $364,000. Parrish used these funds to make payments on her personal credit cards and loans to benefit herself, her business, Southern Roots and Blooms, or acco

Charleston, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal discharge of pollutant. By Kent Morlan On August 24, 2022, Dennis Eugene West, age 58, of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, was driving a tractor trailer in the northbound lane of the West Virginia Turnpike/Interstate 64-77 when he crashed while crossing Skitter Creek Bridge in Fayette County. Nume

Augusta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care and wire fraud. Mira Stallings, 41, of Thomson, Georgia, is a licensed behavioral therapist and owner of ABAscape LLC, a Thomson, Georgia, agency that provided behavioral therapy services to individuals with developmental disabilities. A parent of patients who received services from ABscape reported co

Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Elizabeth Goss, age 43, was accused of while working at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, accepted unauthorized payments from unemployment compensation claimants to approve and expedite Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and other pandemic-related unempl

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, collaborated with the operators of the Blackcat/ALPHV (“BlackCat”) ransomware variant used by cybercriminals to attack and extort institutions and companies. Beginning in April 2023, Martino abused his r

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with aggravated white-collar crime, presenting a false insurance claim and destroying insured property. Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village and Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, and Ararat Chirkinian, 39, all of Glendale, were charged with multiple felonies including aggravated white-collar crime

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. John J. Kersey was a long-time, trusted financial advisor to friends and relatives. For approximately two decades, from 2003 through 2023, he convinced his clients to move their existing investments from his company to purportedly invest in other funds. Kersey then stole the funds and used the money to

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statements and bank fraud. Mongeau owned Mongeau Enterprises, a farming operation in western Kansas. In 2019, he obtained a crop insurance policy through the USDA’s Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) which is subsidized by the federal government. In January 2020, Mongeau submitted a claim indicatin

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHEND, CHILD ENDANGERMENT, in violation of 21 O.S. 852.1 Date of Offense: 01/05/2025 ELY, ELIZABETH MARIE Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/23/2026. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: CHILD ENDANGERMENT(CHEND) Violation of 21 O.S. 852.1 Count # 2. Count as Filed: MALINJ, MALICIOUS INJURY T

Stillwater, Oklahoma, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff of a Governmental Tort Claims Act negligence theory. Plaintiff/Appellee Carolyn Mariani (Mariani) was injured in a motor vehicle accident on July 25, 2011, in Payne County, Oklahoma, when her vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer operated by an employee of Defendant/Appellant State of Oklahoma ex rel. Oklahoma State Unive

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for sex acts, nude photos or cash. Craig A. Spiegel, now 70, exploited his position to obtain cash, sexual acts or sexual photographs from at least 19 patients, many of whom he began treating as children. Spiegel illegally distributed an “astr

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud of taking money from insurers intended for his clients. Michael Joseph Breitenbach, 53, the owner of Patriot Public Adjusting, LLC, is accused of misappropriating over $82,000 in insurance claims and defrauding elderly homeowners in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, pro se defendant not represented by a defense lawyer was charged with driving with license suspended or revoked and failing to carry insurance certificate.

New Orleans, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Vanessa Motta, age 44, Jason Giles, age 44 and Diamanike Stalbert, age 35, were charged in the federal probe into the staging of fake automobile collisions in the New Orleans metro area. Count 1 charged all five defendants with conspira

Denver, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. We must decide whether the Fourth Amendment permitted a protective sweep of a car after the driver was arrested and handcuffed. Everyone agrees that the police developed reasonable suspicion that the driver was armed and dangerous. But with the arrest, any safety r

Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with health care fraud. Dr. Claribel Tan, 61, and her husband, Daniel Tan, 70, operated a rheumatology medical clinic in Anchorage starting in 2005. Claribel Tan specialized in the treatment of autoimmune and musculoskeletal diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and psoriatic arthritis, and she presc