United States of America v. Joshua Cordova

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud and theft of federal funds. Joshua Cordova, 39, of Albuquerque, was charged with mail fraud and theft of federal funds. From approximately 2010 to December 2018, Cordova was employed by Sandia Corporation and later National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, which were contrac ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - )

Estate of Alton Johnson, by and through Randall Johnson as Personal Representative et al v. Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center et al.

Missoula, Montana personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs, who sued the Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center, Sweetwater Whitefish Opco, LLC, Sweetwater Care MT OPCO LLC, Sweetwater Care OPCO LLC, Sweetwater Investment Management, LLCm d/b/a Sweetwater Private Equity, Sweetwater Care Resource, LLC, Reid Crickmore, James Gamett, Aaron Chesley, and Kyle Shields on medical malpractice ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - )

Bruce P. Kingsley, ex rel. United States of America v. Neurosurgical Associates, LTD and Dignity Health, d/b/a St. Joseph’s Hospital

Phoenix, Arizona False Claims Act lawyers represented Neurosurgical Associates, LTD and Dignity Health, d/b/a St. Joseph’s Hospital, which were accused of violating the Act. Neurosurgical Associates, LTD and Dignity Health, d/b/a St. Joseph’s Hospital, agreed to pay $10 million to resolve civil allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA). Dignity Health is one of the la ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - AZ)

United States of America v. Richard Loren Lewis

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud. Richard Loren Lewis, 67, of La Quinta, the former owner of a La Quinta-based communication services company, was charged with a two-count information charging him with bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution. From April 2013 to April 2016, Lewis schemed to defraud Silicon Va ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Michael Kail

San Jose, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. Michael Kail, the former Vice President of IT Operations at Netflix, was charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering Kail was indicted May 1, 2018, of nineteen counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of money laundering, in violati ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Garrett Scott Wheelan

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of stolen mail. Garrett Scott Wheelen, 30, of Fresno, was charged with mail fraud and possession of stolen mail. Between August and November 2020, Wheelen perpetrated a mail fraud scheme to defraud the State of California by submitting fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims to California’ ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Yuan Xie

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally trafficking in endangered turtles. Yuan Xie, 30, was charged for his role in a scheme to purchase hundreds of endangered and vulnerable turtles in the U.S. and smuggle them via U.S. mail and commercial airline flights to China. Beginning in at least May 2017 and continuing until October 2018, Xie conspired with a ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Gregory David Werber

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering. Gregory David Werber, 58, of Manhattan Beach, California, was charged with laundered drug proceeds for a drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine in Western Washington. “Drug traffickers are in it for the money–and those who collect the cash a ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - WA)

United States of America v. Jarard David Threefingers

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. Jerard David Threefingers, 31, was charged with involuntary manslaughter. The government alleged that on March 6, 2020, Threefingers was at a Muddy Cluster house, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, where he was hanging out and drinking with the victim, identified as Jane Doe, and oth ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - MT)

United States of America v. Jabari Laquan Marshall

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charge with tax fraud. Jabari Laquan Marshall, 43, devised the fraudulent tax withholding scheme while incarcerated in a Bureau of Prisons facility. As part of the scheme, Marshall provided co-defendant Jalen Tony Henry, 27, with false documents that purportedly showed the sale of certain trade secrets for $25 million during the 2014 ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - NV)

United States of America v. Leo James Chaplin

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with international parental kidnapping. Leo James Chaplin, 62, who is an American-born United States citizen, abducted the young children he shared with his then spouse in November 2014. Both children were born and lived in Anchorage prior to their abduction. Chaplin kept the children in the Philippines for over four-and-a-ha ... More $0 (05-09-2021 - )

United States of America v. Skyler F. Sanders

Omaha, Nebraska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs. Skyler F. Sanders, age 34, of Omaha, was charged with felony possession drugs with intent to distribute 28 Grams or More of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base (Crack). On October 3, 2019, law enforcement officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Douglas Cou ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - NE)

United States of America v. Dawn Block

Pierre, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with federal program theft. Dawn Block, age 53, was charged with federal program theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A). Between October 2018 and May 2019, while she was employed as an agent of USTDC, Block did embezzle, steal, obtain by fraud, and intentionally misapply property of USTDC, an organization receivi ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - SD)

United States of America v. Mitchell James Ottinger

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography. Mitchell James Ottinger, 25, of Carver, Minnesota, was arrested on criminal charges for alleged production of child pornography related to sextortion and threats of extortion. According to court documents, Ottinger created and used multiple Internet accounts to encourage and direct ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - MN)

United States of America v. Miguel Padilla

Grand Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Guatemalan who was charged with possessing a fraudulent social security card. Miguel Padilla, age 46, a citizen of Guatemala illegally present in the United States and living in Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 3, 2021, guilty plea to one count of unlawful possession of identification documents. In a plea agreement, Pad ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - IA)

United States of America v. Ceeron Tearrence Williams

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with felony possession of a ammunition. Ceeron Tearrence Williams, age 29, of Des Moines, was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition. Shortly after 4 a.m. on January 21, 2018, Williams fired nine gunshots from a pistol while he and a group of individuals were standing near the storefront of a Des Moine ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - IA)

United States of America v. Bryan C. Kirkendoll, II

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with burglary. Bryan C. Kirkendoll II, also known as “B Boy” and “Blockboy,” 31, was charged with one count of participating in a conspiracy, three counts of transporting stolen property across state lines, two counts of witness tampering, and one count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce. Co-defendant ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Anthony Barry

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with theft of campaign funds. Anthony Barry, 33, of Yorkville, served as a deputy campaign manager and consultant for former U.S. Senator Martha McSally. Barry used his position in the campaign to fraudulently direct the campaign to make payments to him beyond what he was owed for his salary and had the fraudulently obtained f ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - AZ)

United States of America v. Karen Marie Jones

Durham, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Karen Marie Jones of Durham, North Carolina, was sentenced today to conspiring to defraud the United States. According to court documents and statements made in court, Jones owned Jones and Stone Taxes, a tax preparation business in Durham. From 2012 through 2017, Jones and t ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Mehrdad Ansari

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charge with Conspiracy to Violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Iranian Transaction Regulations. Mehrdad Ansari, 39, of Iran, was charged with attempting to transship and transshipped cargo obtained from the U.S. by co-defendants Taiwanese citizen Susan Yip, aka Susan Yeh, and Iranian citizen Mehrdad Fooman ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Juan Olaya

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple felonies. Juan Olaya, 41, of Houston, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury of one count of racketeering conspiracy, four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, and four counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence on March 9, 2020. According to eviden ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - MI)

United States of America v. Aleksandr Grichishkin, Andrei Skvortsov, Aleksandr Skorodumov, and Pavel Stassi

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with racketeering. Four Eastern European nationals pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) arising from their providing “bulletproof hosting” services between 2008 and 2015, which were used by cybercriminals to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - MI)

United States of America v. Rodney Shan Holt, a/k/a Turbo; Eulalio Torres-Cadenas, a/k/a Yayo

Beaumont, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with criminal conspiracy. Rodney Shane Holt, aka “Turbo,” 48, of Tyler, Texas, pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in aid of racketeering, as well as conspiracy to sell firearms to a convicted felon. Holt committed the assault as part of his membership in the AC, a gang that operates in Texas and ... More $0 (05-08-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Scott Thomas Cooper

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methampheamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MT)

United States of America v. Chase Zachery Taylor Estes

Helena, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with making a false statement during a firearm transaction in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(a)(6). ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MT)

Kelly Schultz v. TheMLSonline, Inc.

Minneapolis, Minnesota consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued TheMLSonline, Inc. on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act violation theory under 47 U.S.C. 227 which provides: (a) Definitions As used in this section— (1) The term “automatic telephone dialing system” means equipment which has the capacity— (A) to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random ... More $1 (05-07-2021 - MN)

Maria Hanft v. Alltran Financial, L.P.

Minneapolis, Minnesota consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Alltran Financial,L.P. on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MN)

United States of America v. Francisco Jorge Morales

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug possession in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846 ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MN)

United States of America v. Alexandeer Rene Holcomb

Davenport, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with unlawful transport of firearms and conspiracy to distribute controlled drugs in violation of 21 USC 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), 846 and 19 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - IA)

United States of America v. Brandon L. Kemna

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with unlawful transport of firearms. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Erik Finster

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with sexual exploitation of minors. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Glenn Matthew Graham

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Oscar Inacio Lopez-Ortega

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with reentry after deportation. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Matthew C. Huber

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with money laundering of money obtained from the sale of a controlled substance. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

Jon Michael Bryan v. Social Security Administration

Springfield, Missouri social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued the Social Security Administration seeking review of the denial of his application for SSID benefits by HHS. ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Tyson Rutledge

St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child porn. Tyson Rutledge, 48, of Bonne Terre, Missouri, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography. On July 22, 2019, Rutledge sent a message to an undercover FBI agent participating in a social media chat room. Rutledge and the undercover FBI agent began to talk about children. Rutl ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Jose David Saldana-Ramirez

Madison, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with reentry after removal of alien. Jose David Saldana-Ramirez, 38, a citizen of Mexico, was for illegally reentering the United States and failing to register as a sex offender. Saldana-Ramirez pleaded guilty to these charges on February 4, 2021. On July 20, 2020, Saldana-Ramirez was stopped for a traffic violation in Co ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - WI)

United States of America v. Timothy P. Mayer

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud. Timothy P. Mayer, 41, of Waterloo, Illinois, appeared in federal court in East St. Louis and pled guilty to defrauding his former employer, Jung Truck Service (“Jung Truck”) of Mascoutah, Illinois, out of more than $600,000. In addition to operating its own trucks and warehouse facilities, Jung Tr ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Wesley A. Smith

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with wire fraud. Wesley A. Smith, 31, was employed by Seven Corners, a travel insurance business located in Carmel. His duties included processing travel insurance claims of Seven Corners clients. One of the clients is Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA). FMCA was an organization of RV owners whose members recei ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - IN)

United States of America v. Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales, a/k/a Sicopita

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy. From March 2016, Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales, aka Sicopita, 23, of Annapolis, was a member and associate of MS-13, and participated in a racketeering conspiracy that included assaults, murder, attempted murder, robbery, and drug trafficking. Specifically, Reyes-Canales admitted that he particip ... More $0 (05-07-2021 - MD)