New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with securities fraud.

Fred Elm, a/k/a “Frederic Elmaleh,” the founder and manager of Elm Tree Investment Advisors LLC (“ETIA”), was charged with participating in a scheme to defraud investors in multiple investment funds created and controlled by ELM and Ahmad Naqvi, ETIA’s chief operating officer. Among other... More...   $0 (09-29-2020 - NY)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with fraud.

A federal grand jury in Portland has returned a 6 count indictment charging Roderick Ariwite, age 65, a resident on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, and Thomas Adams, age 48, a resident on the Warm Springs Reservation, with Conspiracy and Theft/Misapplication of Funds from a Tribal Organization. This ... More...   $0 (09-29-2020 - OR)

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud and embezzlement.

According to the complaint, Solis, 49, of Austin, Texas, is a licensed attorney. From January 2018 until July 2019, Solis was the General Counsel and then Chief Business Officer of a financial technology company registered to do business in the State of California. While emp... More...   $0 (09-29-2020 - CA)

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement.

Last year, Gregogry McClure, ate 42, pleaded guilty to embezzling funds from bank accounts owned by Boomtown Management, Inc., an enterprise that owned and operated various restaurants associated with popular music artists throughout the United States. Using his access as Boomtown’s in-house attorney... More...   $0 (09-29-2020 - AZ)

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking.

Waralee Wanless, age 41, was charged with participation in an international sex trafficking organization that was responsible for coercing hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the United States.

As proven at trial, the sex trafficking organiza... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - MN)

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax evasion.

Tarrance L. Link, admitted in a plea agreement that he willfully underreported his income on his tax returns for the calendar years 2012 through 2016. The conduct caused total losses to the IRS of at least $71,133, and to the Illinois Department of Revenue of at least $11,527, the plea agreement st... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - IL)

Dr. My Tran and Dr. Ian Murray are dentists who owned a dental
practice known as Bird Rock Dental. Dr. Murray worked at the practice and
Dr. Tran handled the business operations through his own separate entity.
About two years after they formed the practice, they had financial disputes.
In the midst of these disputes, Dr. Tran accused Dr. Murray of substandard
dental work and ... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

Appellants Corinna Reyes and Golden State Care Collective, Inc. (together,
“Reyes” or “appellants”), filed a complaint for malicious prosecution against property
owner Kim Kruger and Kim Kruger Trust (together, Kruger) and Kruger’s former
attorney, Todd Rothbard (Rothbard), for what Reyes contended was a wrongful eviction.
The trial court granted Kruger’s and Rothbard’s (together, ... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act.

Addiction Recovery physician Dr. Chambless Johnston and his practice, East Tennessee Recovery, have paid $530,000 to resolve several allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. The allegations include billing for individual and group psychotherapy provided by unlicense... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TN)

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented a defendant who was charged with mail fraud and possession of stolen mail.

Adam Perrelli, 41, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and theft of mail, mail fraud, and receipt and possession of stolen mail. Perrelli along with Kaitlin Patterson, 31, and Natasha Pargellis, 36, also of Trenton, were indicted in Nov... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TN)

Jackson, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented defendant who was charged with bank fraud.

According to information presented in court, Charles Ray Smith, age 71, of Crump, Tennessee owned and operated several aggregate materials businesses in Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana. From March 2009 until February 2012, Smith defrauded Central Bank in Savannah, Tenn., by depositing and di... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TN)

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant, who was charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to court records, from March 2018 through January 2019, Christian Newby, age 32, fraudulently obtained credit card information for more than 1100 credit card holders. Newby used the stolen credit card information to purchase Amtrak tickets online. ... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - MI)

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendant on bank robbery charge.

On February 12, 2020, Solis entered the Chase Bank located at 141 E. Michigan Avenue, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He used a demand note to rob a teller and fled with $7,038.50 in cash. A Kalamazoo Township law enforcement officer recognized Solis from the bank surveillance photo. When confronted by p... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - MI)

Houston, TX - Criminal Defense Lawyer - Defendant charged with embezzlement.

A former Harris County judge has admitted to embezzling funds received during her re-election campaigns.

Alexandra Smoots-Thomas, 44, Houston, was the presiding judge for the 164th District Court for the State of Texas and had jurisdiction over Texas civil cases located within Harris County. She first ra... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

San Antonio, TX - Criminal Defense Lawyer - Defendant charged with bribery and government contract fraud.

An Ashburn, VA-based software engineering company called QuantaDyn Corporation (QuantaDyn) entered a guilty plea to a federal charge in connection with a bribery and government contract fraud scheme that spanned more than a decade and impacted contract awards worth hundreds of million... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

New York, NY - Criminal Defense Lawyer, Wire Fraud

The United States of America charged Richard Gaffey, a/k/a Dick Gaffey, age 76, with wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and other charges.

Defendant, a U.S. citizen and resident of Medfield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion and to defraud the United St... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - NY)