Conspiracy Law
 
United States of America v. Cole Herrick, Scott Buchanan and Chad Buchanan

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with drug trafficking.

Cole Douglas Herrick, age 40, of Casper, Wyoming, and Colorado residents Scott Alan Buchanan, age 44, and Chad Alexander Buchanan, age 48, were recently sentenced for their involvement in a drug trafficking ring that was responsible for bringing large quantities of methamphetamine and fentany

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United States of America v. Ratha Yin

Oakland, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail and wire fraud.

Ratha Yin, age 36, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud on November 10, 2022. According to his plea agreement, from June of 2020 to at least September of 2021, Yin conspired with Steven Mavromatis, 28, of San Leandro, Calif., and others, including his wife, Amanda Yin, 33, of Indio, Calif

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United States of America v. Okechukwu Nwofor

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with leading a conspiracy that laundered money stolen from victims of romance scams and business email compromise scams, causing a total loss of nearly $1 million.

Okechukwu Nwofor, 32, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty on February 21 to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

In his p

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United States of America v. Jinchao Wei

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with espionage.

Jinchao Wei, also known as Patrick Wei, age 22, was an active-duty sailor on the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Essex stationed at Naval Base San Diego. In his role as a machinist’s mate, Wei held a U.S. security clearance and had access to sensitive national defense information about the ship

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United States of America v. Alma L. Zapien

Omaha, Nebraska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering.

Alma L. Zapien, age 51, of Omaha, was arrested after Drug Enforcement Administration and Internal Revenue Service Agents learned she was assisting known drug traffickers by sending illicit drug proceeds to Mexico through wire remitter services she managed at her local convenience stores. Between J

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United States of America v. Daniel Rostas, Loredana Angel and Leganda Rostas

St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a "short-change fraud" in stores across the country.

Daniel Rostas, 30, Loredana Angel, 35, and Legenda Rostas, 28, all pleaded guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and illegal reentry of an alien. All admitted engaging in sleight of hand to defraud Target stores for years while

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United States of America v. Leron Liggins

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing controlled substances.

Defendant Leron Liggins was indicted on one count of conspiracy
to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1)
and 846, and one count of aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute heroin, in

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United States of America v. Shai Cohen

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States, bringing aliens to the United States for financial gain, encouraging and inducing aliens to unlawfully come to, enter and reside in the United States for financial gain, harboring illegal aliens and money laundering.

Shai Cohen, 39, all

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United States of America v. Nicholas Calisi, Ralph Balsamo, Michael Messina, John Campanell, Michael Poli and Thomas Poli

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

The Genovese Organized Crime Family is part of a nationwide criminal organization known by various names, including La Cosa Nostra (“LCN”) and the “Mafia,” which operates through entities known as “Families.”

Like other LCN Families, the Genovese O

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United States of America v. Ana Ercilia Luna

Martinsburg, West Virginia riminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking.

Ana Ercilia Luna, age 38, of Haggerstown, Maryland, assisted drug customers at Top 3 Sources, a business in Hagerstown that was being used to distribute hundreds of grams of illegal substances. Luna also smuggled drug proceeds to the Dominican Republic and deposited proceeds into the Top

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United States of America v. Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield

Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiring depriving people of their rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Five former Rankin County Sheriff’s Department employees, including Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield, a former Richland police officer, who ca

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United States of America v. Denise Johnson

Beckley, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to travel interstate with the intent to engage in dealing firearms without a license. Johnson admitted to her role in a conspiracy to traffic over 140 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia.

In or around June 2020, Denise Johnson, age 26, of Beckley, was a native of Philadelphia living in

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United States of America v. Duanne Pierce

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to transport stolen property across state lines and interstate transportation of stolen property.

From May 2018 through February 2020, defendant Duanne Pierce,, age 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led seven others in a conspiracy to commit 12 retail jewelry store thefts throughout the Unit

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United States of America v. Sinister Mfg. Company, Inc.

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with manufacturing and selling devices designed to defeat vehicle emissions controls.

Sinister Diesel pleaded guilty to a two-count Information, charging it with conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act (CAA) and defraud the United States, and with violating the CAA by tampering with the monitoring device of an em

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United States of America v. Donald J. Trump

Washington, DC - The Indictment:

The Grand Jury charges that, at all times material to this Indictment, on or about the dates and at the approximate times stated below:

INTRODUCTION

1. The Defendant, DONALD J. TRUMP, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election.

2. D

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United States of America v. Robert V. Matthews

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy, money laundering, and tax evasion offenses related to multiple schemes that defrauded investors and financial institutions out of tens of millions of dollars.

Robert V. Matthews, age 65, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was a real estate developer in charge of The Palm House Hotel (“PHH”), a

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United States of America v. Matthew Catalano, a/k/a "Tampa"

Bangor, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and felony possession of a firearm.

Between January 2018 and December 2021, Matthew Catalano, age 33, along with others, trafficked methamphetamine and fentanyl in Penobscot and Aroostook counties and elsewhere. On February 17, 2021, Catalano was arrested by the Orono Police Department

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United States of America v. David Carr and James Michael Poterbin

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping, felony possession and use of a firearm and possession of drugs.

In February 2023, a federal jury found David Carr, 36, of Kansas City, and James Michael Poterbin, 47, of Edwardsville, guilty of kidnapping, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and discharging a firearm in connection with a dru

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United States of America v. Ronald Bell

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with extortion.

“Ronald Bell tried to extort Georgia Tech and ruin the reputation of its basketball coach,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “As federal prosecutors, we have a responsibility to the citizens of this district to pursue accountability and justice for crimes of sexual violence. But in this case

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United States of America v. Angel Rubio-Quintana

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing large quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana in St. George.

Angel Rubio-Quintana, 42, of St. George, Utah, was first discovered by agents in March 2020, after learning that an individual in St. George was receiving large amounts of methamphetamine from a Mexican cartel. During an

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United States of America v. Jimmy and Ashley Collins

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a health care fraud scheme that bilked TRICARE – the health care program that covers United States service members–out of more than $65 million.

Jimmy and Ashley Collins, a married couple living in Birchwood, Tennessee, admitted they worked with others to recruit TRICARE beneficiaries wh

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United States of America v. Jorge Alexis Hernandea-Martinez

Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States into Mexico.

Jorge Alexis Hernandez-Martinez, 25, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and his co-conspirators obtained firearms and ammunition from licensed firearms dealers within Arizona with the intent to smuggle them into Mexico. In January 2020, Hernandez-Martinez and

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United States of America v. James Cromitie, Onta Willaims, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit murdeer, use of certain weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and protection of officers and employees of the United. States

James Cromitie, Onta Willaims, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen were all charged with engaging in a conspiracy to commit terrorist act.


In Oct

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Zvitaliy Strizheus v. The City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls, South Dakota civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants taking of property without just compensation.


Plaintiffs Vitaliy and Nataliya Strizheus (collectively “Plaintiffs”) seek a preliminary injunction to prevent Defendant the City of Sioux Falls (“the City”) from enforcing a final state court judgment permitting the razing of Plaintiffs' part

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United States of America v. Edwin Giovanni Salinas

Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substance.

On November 26, 2022, Edwin Giovanni Salinas, ae 44, of El Salvador, along with his co-defendant, Berta Rosmelvi Gonzales, were pulled over during a traffic stop in northeast South Dakota. During a search of the vehicle, nearly 16 pounds of a mixture and subs

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