Fraud Law
 
United States of America v. John Doe

Pocatello, Idaho, unidentified man guilty of wire fraud, theft of government funds, aggravated identity theft, and related charges. Reported by: Kent Morlan Carlos Ramon Obregon was born in 1963 in Los Angeles but was tragically killed in Los Angeles in 1977 at the age of 14 after su

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United States of America v. Daylyn Harris

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan Daylyn Harris, age 35, conspired to commit wire fraud in connection with false claims he submitted to the Federal Emergency M

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United States of America v. Thvoughn Lynden Curry and Alexis Daneen Curry

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit health Care Fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan Thvoughn Lynden Curry and Alexis Daneen Curry defrauded AHCCCS through “1 Family Clinic, LLC,” their purported outpatient behavioral h

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United States of America v. Jianquing Li, a/k/a "JQ"

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan “Jianqing Li allegedly turned confidential information into more than $350,000 in illegal trading profits,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Insider

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United States of America v. Danial Adair, Daniel Nicolds, and Lary Micholds

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with fraudulently obtain and sell New Mexico elk hunting tags to out of state hunters and conceal the proceeds from the IRS. from approximately 2019 through 2022, Danial Adair, 44, Daniel Nicolds, 57, and his brother Lary Nicolds, 59, allegedly operated a scheme through Big Horn Outfitters in which they fraudu

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United States of America v. Titianna Ammons

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

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United States of America v. Katie M. Tristan

Hammond, Indiana, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Katie M. Tristan, age 41, of Clear Lake, Indiana used her leadership positions in the parent-teacher organizations (PTOs) at two Cedar Lake elementary schools to embezzle

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Robert P. Oristaglio, Jr. ex rel. United States of America v. Community Care Health Network LLC, doing business as Matrix Medical Network (Matrix), DPN USA, doing business as HealthFair (HealthFair), and Shahriah “James” Ekbatani

Beaumont, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam action claiming that the Defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by causing the submission of false or invalid diagnosis codes to the Medicare Advantage program. Reported by Kent Morlan The United`

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United States of America v. Daiwor “Mark Brown” Woah-Tee

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged harged with conspiracy to submit false, fictitious, and fraudulent claims to the Internal Revenue Service and wire fraud conspiracy stemming from a scheme to fraudulently obtain UI benefits during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Reported by More...   $ (06-04-2026 - MD)

United States of America v. McCayla Myers

Charleston, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and abetting theft of government money. Reported by Kent Morlan McCayla Myers, 27, of Cabin Creek, engaged in a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of $83,332.00 in COVI

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United States of America v. Thomas Pipich

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Thomas Pipich, age 74, tole millions of dollars from an investment client in order to conceal losses he incurred on behalf of another client. In 2005, Pipich helped t

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United States of America v. Krandon Wenger

Allentown, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Krandon Wenger, 25, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, was charged with two counts of wire fraud, arising from a pandemic program fraud scheme in which he defrauded the go

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United States of America v. Danny Seibel

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

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United States of America v. Claudiu Pesteleu

Las Cruces, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Claudiu Pesteleu, 44, a Romanian national illegally present in the United States, admitted that from May 2023 through June 2024, he participa

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United States of America v. Jordan Trought

White Plainss, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Reported by Kent Morlan From at least 2015 through at least 2025, Jordan Trouoght and others engaged in a fraud scheme perpetrated against elderly victims (the “El

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United States of America v. Pedram Fejal

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with tipping investor with nonpublic information for them to used to make money on stocks. Reported by Kent Morlan The first indictment charges the following 16 defendants with two counts of conspiracy to comm

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United States of America v. Brian Graham

Denver, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Brian Graham, 49, Lithia Springs, Georgia, prepared and submitted fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL), and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applicat

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United States of America v. Christopher J. Ashby, et al.

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail and wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Christopher J. Ashby, age 52, and others participated in a nationwide scheme to defraud victims out of more than $30 million by inducing them to invest in N

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United States of America v. Philip Frederick Camino

Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Philip Frederick Camino, 46, of Culver City, California, submitted and caused to be submitted false and fraudulent applications to the United States Small Bu

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United States of America v. Stacia Wilson

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

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United States of America v. Octavia Renee Murphy

Springfield, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Octavia Renee Murphy, 37, of the 700 block of Double Jack Street, conspired with others to defraud the SBA by submitting false applications for

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United States of America v. Joyce L. Smith

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government funds. Reported by Kent Morlan Joynce L. Smith, age 51, was a United States Postal Service employee stole approximately $10,600 in cash payments from customers and issued herself approximately $3,700 in money orders. Smith also embezzled approximately $3,400 that customers paid for their post o

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United States of America v. Adam Young and Harrison Gevirtz

Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with operating a business that provided services to customers engaged in widespread telemarketing and tech-support fraud schemes targeting victims throughout the United States and abroad. Reported by Kent Morlan Former CEO Adam Young, 42, of Miami, FL, and former CSO Harrison Gevirtz, 33, of Las Vegas, NV,

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United States of America v. Evangelos Lohaitis, et al.

Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Evangelos Lohaitis, a.k.a. “Bucky,” (36 – Saint-Eustache, Québec) Mitchell Burnett-Guarna, a.k.a. “Juice,” (39 – Dorval, Québec) Kyle Lesser, a.k.a. “Brock,” (34 – Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot, Québec) Luca Santalucia, a.k.a. “Rocco,” (27 – Mo

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United States of America v. Chouby Charleron

Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Chouby Charleron, 27, of Severn, Maryland, accessed and obtained the PII of thousands of unwitting individuals and then sold that PII to a network of co-conspirators through interstate wires using a web-based encrypted messaging application that users co

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