United States of America v. Lynn Eich

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with misleading federal authorities about lead contamination in a Granby, Mo., city park after he was hired to conduct remediation at the site. Lynn Eich, 65, of Dewitt, Iowa, was accused of misleading federal authorities about lead cotaimination in a Granby, Missouri city park. Eich’s employer, Environmental Quality ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - MO)

Michael Feld v. Viceroy Device Corporation and Stephen K. Ellis

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued defendant on a product liability theory. The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available. This case was filed in the Supreme Court of New York in and for New Yo County, 651902/2023 and was moved to federal court by the Defendant. Plaintiff challenged the jurisdiction of the court and sought reman ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - UT)

United States of America v. Crystal A. Huang

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with devising a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtain money and property, under false pretenses, to benefit her company, ProSky Inc. Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, admitted she knowingly offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises to potential investors. From February 2015 throu ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - UT)

United States of America v. Antonietta Nguyen

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with five counts of wire fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to embezzle millions of dollars from her former employer. Antonietta Nguyen, 55, of Brisbane, is accused of having stolen approximately $2.7 million from ABS Seafood, a private seafood wholesaler and importer based in San Francisco. Nguyen, a minori ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - CA)

United States of America v. William Merlino

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with selling misbranded drugs online and obstruction of justice. The chemical 2,4-Dinitrophenol (“DNP”) has a variety of industrial and commercial uses, such as herbicides, dyes, and wood preservatives. In the 1930s, before federal law required drugs to be proven safe before they were marketed, DNP was used as a ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - PA)

United States of America v. Leron Harris

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking and firearms felonies. Leron Harris, age 30, of Steelton, Pennsylvania was accused or distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine on multiple occasions between August 2022 and March 2023 in Harrisburg and Steelton. The indictment further states that he possessed a firearm i ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - PA)

United States of America v. Andrew Kincaid

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and for violating the terms of federal supervised release. Andrew Kincaid, age 35, formerly of Baden, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count . On March 16, 2021, Kincaid knowingly possessed an electronic device containing child sexual abuse m ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - PA)

Marciano Briones v. Adams County, et al.

Denver, Colorado civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on deliberate indifference theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983. On September 9, 2016, Marciano Briones was booked into the Adams County Detention Facility in Adams County, Colorado after being found guilty of driving under the influence. Docket No. 171 at 2, ¶¶ 1-2. On December 25, 2016, Mr. Briones felt ill and was see ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - CO)

State of Illinois v. Timothy Bliefnick

Quincy, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of 1st-degree murder and one count of home invasion. Rebecca Bliefnick was accused shooting and killing his estranged wife, Rebecca Bliefnick, on August 11, 2022. The case was prosecuted by Adams Court Assistant State's Attorney Josh Jones ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - IL)

United States of America v.Roberto Minuta, Edward Vallejo, David Moerschel and Joseph Hackett

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with seditious conspiracy. Four members of the Oath Keepers were sentenced this week on seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and ... More $0 (06-02-2023 - DC)

Carlos Pena v. New Tung Kee Noodle House No. 1, Inc.

San Jose, California Civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory. ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - CA)

Preston Knott v. Cyclone Drilling, Inc.

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued sued Defendant on a negligence theory. This case was filed in the Tulsa Cty Dist Ct, CJ-22-00209 and was removed to federal court by Cyclone. Plaintiff claimed that he was injured while working on an oil well located near Greenfield, Oklahoma when his hand was hit by a sledgehammer swung by an employee of Defendant. ... More $1 (06-01-2023 - OK)

David Tenorio v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.

West Palm Beach, Florida personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory. This case was filed in the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach, Co Fl, 502022CA008485XXXXMB, and was removed to federal court by BJ's. Plaintiff challenged the jurisdiction of the federal court over the case and sought remand. ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - FL)

Smirde Simone Belizaire v. Costco Wholesale Corporation

West Palm Beach, Florida personal Injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory. This case was filed in the 15th Judical Circuit, 50-02022-CA-003819- XXXX-MB, and was removed to federal court by Costco. Plaintiff objected to federal court jurisdiction and sought remand. ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - FL)

United States of America v. Remberto Antormachy Estrella Jimenez and Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participation in a fraudulent scheme to avoid the payment of millions of dollars in excise taxes on imported tobacco products. Remberto Antormachy Estrella Jimenez, 38, and Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez, 64, both of Santiago, were the managing members of Dominican Tobacco Products, LLC—a Florida company that imported t ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - FL)

United States of America v. Zane Michael Bonner

Hattiesburg, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. Zane Michael Bonner, 44, was found to be in possession of a cellular telephone at his rehabilitation center residence in Hattiesburg from which forensics recovered over 2,500 visual depictions of child sexual abuse material of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Bonner h ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Chris Bao Nguyen

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with eceipt of child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(2) and (b)(1). The case against Chirs Bao Nguyen resulted from a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”) CyberTip report to the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (“LBI”). Homeland Security Investig ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - LA)

United States of America v. Mandy Nicole Miller

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with theft of public funds. While employed at the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, Mandy Nicole Miller, age 44, of Baton Rouge, stole cash paid for traffic tickets and hid the thefts by recording fraudulent journal entries in the Sheriff’s Office accounting system. Miller’s scheme began on or about July ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - LA)

United States of America v. Cedric Bell, Demetrius Sumner and Bernard Washington

Shreveport, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs. Cedric Bell, 55, of Shreveport, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on drug and firearms charges. On August 20, 2021, a Caddo Parish Probation Officer searched Bell’s clothing and found a digital scale and cash in his pockets ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - LA)

United States of America v. Anthony Omar Brockman

Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with accepting Kansas City Chiefs playoffs tickets and a new Chevrolet Tahoe in exchange for facilitating a $12.4 million Covid fraud scheme by a Jefferson City, Mo., business owner, as well as a separate fraud scheme to receive unemployment benefits. Anthony Omar Brockman, 48, who currently resides in Bennington, Neb ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - MO)

United States of America v. Marcus Alan Vincent Urelius

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. Between April 2021, and January 2022, Marcus Alan Vincent Urelius, age 36, from Farmhamville, Iowa, used an Internet-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) network known as “Freenet” to knowingly receive visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. This case was brought as pa ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Steve Lugo Leon

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distrubute 40 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Fentanyl. Leon’s co-defendant, Rafael Ivan Valenzuela Chairez, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on the same day by Judge Snow to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Ch ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - AZ)

United States of America v. Amadou Kane Diallo

Santa Ana, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud. Amadou Kane Diallo, 44, a Senegalese national living in Laguna Niguel, was arrested at his residence for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.8 million from at least 11 victims who thought their investments would allow them to reap the benefits of Diallo’s supposed business successes while facing little to n ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - CA)

United States of America v. Jonathan Alcequiez-Sanchez

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation. Jonathan Alcequiez-Sanchez, 35, was pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. Alcequiez-Sanchez was deported from the United States on Sept. 18, 2018, after being arrested in the Bronx, N.Y. for unlawful entry. Sometime after h ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - MA)

United States of America v. Kenyatta Phipps

Rochester, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud. Kenyatta Phipps, ate 46, of Rochester, New York, filed a federal income tax return for the tax year 2019, reporting wages and interest income of $13,273.00, which resulted in a refund of $696. In August 2020, Phipps attempted four times to file a second 2019 federal income tax return on which he falsely r ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - NY)

United States of America v. Craig Spofford

Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with hree counts of federal crop insurance fraud in connection with schemes in which he obtained more than $179,000 in crop insurance benefits for claimed losses on crops that he did not in fact suffer. Craig Spofford, age 48, of Dolgeville, New York, admitted that he fraudulently obtained $179,051 in crop insurance benefits ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - NY)

United States of America v. Diego Mateo, a/k/a "Casa"

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participation in the Black Mob set of the Latin Kings and their distribution of narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine. The Black Mob is a New York-based set, or “tribe,” of the nationwide Latin Kings gang. In order to enrich the enterprise, protect and expand its criminal operations, enforce di ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - NY)

United States of America v. Jeff Pastor

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with honest services mail fraud. Former Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Pastor agreed to plead guilty to the public corruption charges filed against him. 18:1349 - CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HONEST SERVICES WIRE FRAUD (1) 18:1343, 18:1346 and 18:2 - HONEST SERVICES WIRE FRAUD (2) 18:666(a)(1(B) and 18:2 - BRIBERY CONCERNING ... More $0 (06-01-2023 - OH)

Leisa Stallworth v. Shelter Insurance Company

Tulsa, Oklahoma insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued defendant on a breach of contract theory. In Oklahoma, an insurance company can be held liable for bad faith breach of an insurance contract if it unreasonably denies or delays payment of a claim. To establish a bad faith claim, the insured must show that the insurer: Knew or should have known that its denial or delay of pay ... More $1 (06-01-2023 - OK)

United States of America v. Gerald Wayne Johnson

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. On the morning of November 6, 2021, Gerald Wayne Johnson, 27, was driving a vehicle while intoxicated with a passenger in the front seat. Johnson was driving above 90 miles per hour on a public road which had a posted speed limit of 20 miles per hour. While speeding and driving recklessly, ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - MN)

Melissa Billips v. Robert Ronald Chiomenti

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an auto negligence theory claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by Defendant's failure to exercise due care in the operation of a motor vehicle on August 6, 2021 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - OK)

United States of America v. Bryan C. Perry and Jonathan S. O'Dell

Jefferson City, Missouri criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiraing to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States – Mexico border. Bryan C. Perry, 3 ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - MO)

United States of America v. Jacque Pierre Young

Monroe, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Jacque Pierre Young, 30, of Arcadia, was sentenced to 324 months (27 years) in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Agents with the Lincoln Parish Narcotics Enforcement Tea ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - LA)

United States of America v. Leslie Robert Burk and Ethan Sturgis Day

El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Leslie Robert Burk, 55, of El Paso, and Ethan Sturgis Day, 59, of Idyllwild, California, conspired, engaged, and participated in defrauding customers/victims through a business, Atomic Container Homes, Incorporated (ACHI) and other similarly named businesses. As the principals of ACHI, Burk ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - TX)

United States of America v. Stephen Paul Brinson, aka “Steve-O”

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a schedule II controlled drug in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846. Stephen Paul Brinson, aka “Steve-O,” 18, was charged in March. He pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule II controlled substance (fentanyl). In ple ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - TX)

United States of America v. Christopher Smith

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Christopher Smith, 36, of Bakersfield, was indiced for being a felon in possession of a shotgun, stealing checks and debit cards from the mail, and committing related financial fraud. According to court records, Smith, a previously conv ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - CA)

United States of America v. Melesio Gomez-Rivera

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a multiyear scheme to evade the payment of payroll and income taxes on the wages of construction workers. Melesio Gomez-Rivera, 49, of Aloha, Oregon, owned and operated a residential construction company called Novatos Construction. From January 2014 until December 2017, Gomez-Rivera and several other construct ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Justin Costello

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with securities fraud. Justin Costello victimized marijuana business owners, private investors, and investors who purchased stock in the public market. Costello used fraud proceeds for an expensive lifestyle, including an elaborate wedding with a James Bond theme. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Ma ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - WA)

United States of America v. Marisa Beck

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $360,000 in COVID-19 relief funding intended for endangered small businesses. Marisa Beck, age 40, of Spokane, was accused of fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds. On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Ac ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - WA)

United States of America v. Heather Dawn Smith, a/k/a Heather Dawn Yellow Owl

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Heather Dawn Smith, aka Heather Dawn Yellow Owl, 32, appeared for arraignment on a superseding information charging her with second degree murder and pleaded guilty to the crime. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The court will determine any ... More $0 (05-31-2023 - MT)