Michigan Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Condat Corporation </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for which Condat was ineligible. In January 2021, Condat Corporation, a Michigan company that produces a range of industrial lubricants, obtained a second draw... More...
$ (07-31-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> People of the State of Michigan v. Cordell Erwin Dawson </h2> </center>
Paw Paw, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and carrying a firearm during the commission of a felony. This case arose from the fatal shooting of the victim during the early-morning hours of August 15, 2021. Defendant's defense at trial was that he was innocent and the shooting was perpetrated by Michael Johnson, also known as "Bruno.... More...
$ (07-23-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brandon Piper </h2> </center>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead in violaiton of 18 U.S.C. 371. Brandon Piper, age 35, of Gobles, Michigan, helped perpetrate an extensive scheme to import unapproved, misbranded prescription drugs, including peptides, which are popular wei... More...
$ (07-23-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Kenneth Bardwell </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obtaining millions of dollars in investment funds based on false pretenses. Digested by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Kenneth Bardwell, 66, of West Bloomfield, was the operator of a company called “Motown Sports Group... More...
$ (07-23-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Sefton Stewart </h2> </ce\nter>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h) and attempt and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349. Reported by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Between October 2019 and September 2024, Se... More...
$ (07-07-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Zina Thomas </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery involving a federal program. Reported by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Zina Thomas, 62, of Detroit, formerly employed as the Director of Homeownership Programs for a local non-profit, conspired with and paid bribe... More...
$ (07-07-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Karl Alan White, Jr. </h2> </center>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with running a vast drug operation. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> While serving his sentence, White suffered brain damage that left him paralyzed and blind.... More...
$ (06-15-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson and D’Angelo Ferguson admitted to participating in the submission of three separate PPP loan applications, which included false representations and fictitious supporting documents. As part of the scheme, D’Angelo Ferguson claimed each company had a certain amount of mont... More...
$ (04-27-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Omar Rashad Pouncy </h2> </center>
Flint, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Chris Quinn represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, Witness Tampering, intimidation of a witness, bribery, and subornation of prejury. Omar R. Pouncy, 38, of Flint, was convicted of committing multiple carjackings and armed robberies in Genesee County in 2005. The trial court sentenced Pouncy to a lengthy term of i... More...
$ (04-10-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Randon “Romero” Williams </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly defrauding financial institutions and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Between approximately April 2020 and March 2021, Randon “Romero” Williams , 40, applied for more than $5 million in loans across six applications submitted to Paycheck Protecti... More...
$ (04-10-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United Sattes of America v. Erich Zeeb </h2> </center>
Marquette, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Erich Zeeb, 51, of Roanoke, Virginia, exploited a 15 years old, online in 2012. He presented himself to the victim and her parents as an Olympian-in-training and someone who could help the victim with her own Olympic aspirations. As U.S. District Judge Jane M. Beckering stated ... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Glapinski </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing thousands of images of child pornography. Dr. Robert Glapinski, 62, of Capac, Michigan. was accused to possession and distributing thousands of pornographic immages. On March 5, 2025, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip from Google that a user had child pornog... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Graham Ward </h2> </center>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. On January 12, 2025, first responders responded to a 911 call at a hotel in Gaylord, Michigan and pronounced a 25-year-old man dead of a drug overdose. A woman who was last with the decedent before his death cooperated with law enforcement and stated that she re... More...
$ (03-25-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”) </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a whistleblower claim. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”), operates approximately 140 physical therapy clinics in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia, agreed to pay $4,969,494 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for physical therapy serv... More...
$ (03-26-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Stephen Duane Woods, Jr. </h2> </center>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Michael Bartish represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Once the officers successfully detained Woods, he told them multiple times that he didn’t have anything on his person. One officer then patted Woods down but didn’t find a gun. Other officers used their flashlights to look through the windows of Woods’s ... More...
$ (03-10-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> State of Michigan v. Sherrone Moore </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Ellen Michaels represented the Defendant charged with stalking and breaking and entering. Sherrone Moore was accused of breaking into the home of a woman with whom he had a prior relationship.... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon </h2> </center>
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Thomas Shannon, 44, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapchat. Investigators identified the perpetrato... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - MI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Peter Valente </h2> </center>
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Peter Valente and Angela Toma collaborated to fraudulently obtain $2,609,210 from the Paycheck Protection Program. Valente and Toma are alleged to have submitted false loan applications to Paycheck Protection Program lenders using inactive businesses and falsified bank records. When federal agents began i... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - MI)State of Michigan v. Lance Clowney, II
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Lance Clowney II was charged with three felony assault charges after allegedly striking someone with a hammer.... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children From 2019 through 2024, Thomas Shannon, 44, previously of Byron Center, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapcha... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Mohammad Hamdan
Detroit, Michigan, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted conspiracy to commit fraud. Mohammad Hamdan, age 44, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, admitted to utilizing his two pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims for prescriptions even though the prescribed drugs were medically unnecessary or not actually dispensed. In many instances, the pharmacies l... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Kristin Renee Zelonish Edwards
Mizzoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. he government alleged in court documents and at trial that Kristin Edwards defrauded Glacier Bank of over $170,000 by depositing 12 fraudulent savings bonds at four different bank branches in Northwest Montana. Edwards traveled from California to Montana to deposit the savings bonds, making four trips ... More...
$ (02-18-2026 - MI)In re: Thomas William O'Hara
Grand Rapids, Michigan, bankruptcy lawyer represented the Petitioner seeking a chapter 13 bankruptcy. Thomas O’Hara filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. At a hearing on the United States Trustee’s motion to dismiss, the bankruptcy court made clear its intent to convert the case to Chapter 7. But O’Hara did not move to dismiss his Chapter 13 case until after the bankruptcy court had entered i... More...
$ (02-14-2026 - mi)Clarence Borns v. Troy Crisman, Warden
Detroit, Michigan: n December 2012, a vandal broke the windows of two homes owned by Evelyn Hardwick. She called the police, who said there was nothing they could do. But Hardwick “wanted to find out exactly . . . why . . . someone [would] come and tear out [her] windows in mid winter for absolutely nothing.” R. 23-6, Pg. ID 1715. She suspected the reason had something to do with her son, Jame... More...
$ (02-14-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Gerald Desean Jarrett
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Vincent Lee Galicia
Flint, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - MI)Koren Wagner v. Hanon Systems USA, LLC
Ann Arbor, Michigan labor law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law that establishes national standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor. Enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor (.gov), it applies to most private and public employees. Key provisions include a... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Samer Kammo
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a multi-million-dollar Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) fraud scheme. Samer Kammo, 46, and his co-conspirators tried to cheat the system by exploiting a federal relief program meant to help Americans in need. Let this case send a clear message: crime does not pay,” said Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in C... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Andrial Ortiz
Lansing, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearm. Andrial Ortiz was a felon who was not allowed to possess a gun, and the moment he did he used it to shoot a police officer. My office was happy to prosecute this case. We accept the 15-year sentence as a just response. I hope everyone reading this will take a minute to remembe... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Kyle Wagner
Detroit, Michigan, Zcriminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with making Federal threats and cyberstalking following alleged murder and assault threats against ICE. Kyle Wagner escalated his opposition to ICE operations, including conspiring and threatening to assault federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. In January 2026, Wagner repeatedly posted on Facebook and Insta... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Jabari Long
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Steve Fishman represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Long submitted fraudulent loan applications to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) for businesses that did not exist. Specifically, Long received $2,187,000 in federal loans for Priceless Preservations Construction, a company that Long claimed h... More...
$ (01-23-2026 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Brandon Sims
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking and committing a crime of violence with a machine gun. Brandon Sims, 35, of Detroit, Michigan, committed the carjacking on October 18, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. Sims carjacked a man who was assisting a young woman move out of Mr. Sims’s residence. Sims entered the male victim’s SUV and brandished ... More...
$ (01-14-2026 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Rita Shaba
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) wire and bank fraud. Rita Shaba, 40, and her co-conspirators caused fraudulent PPP applications to be submitted for several business entities. Those applications misrepresented payroll information for the business entities and falsely certified that PPP loan funds would be u... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Brandon Lemar Baines
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute over 12 pounds of methamphetamine. On January 23, 2025, officers with the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team (KVET), a multijurisdictional narcotics enforcement team working in the Kalamazoo County area, stopped a van carrying over 12 pounds of methamphetamine as it returne... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Brandon Lemar Baines
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. On January 23, 2025, officers with the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team (KVET), a multijurisdictional narcotics enforcement team working in the Kalamazoo County area, stopped a van carrying over 12 pounds of methamphetamine as it returned from Det... More...
$ (01-05-2026 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Martin Daryl Waskowski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children and possession of porn. On December 3, 2025, Martin Daryl Waskowski, 38, of Royal Oak. was traveling from Canada back to the United States when he was stopped by Customs and Border Protection inspections at a border crossing in Vermont. Waskowski’s digital devices, including a cell phone... More...
$ (12-10-2025 - MI)<H2> State of Michigan v. John Doe
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder. Detroit Jones, 38, died after Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) officers found him in the area of Southeast Lafayette Avenue and Sycamore Street at 1:30 a.m. with critical injuries from being shot. The GRPD arrested a man believed to be the shooter.... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and intending to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl. During a search of Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath's Battle Creek, residence in March 2025, officers found over 1 kilogram of fentanyl, two firearms, thousands of dollars of cash, and what appeared to be an area designed to manufacture counterfe... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - MI)<H2> United States of America v. Ceratizit USA, L.L.C. and Mark Alan Stover
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act. Ceratizit USA LLC (Ceratizit), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based distributor of tungsten carbide products, has agreed to pay $54.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly failing to pay duties owed on tungsten carbide product... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - MI)People of Michigan v. Kardasz
Mount Clemens, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged first-degree criminal sexual conduct for the sexual assault of his five-year-old daughter.... More...
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