Conspiracy Law
 
United States of America v. Derrick D. West-Jones, also known as Derrick Jones

St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and felon in possession of a firearm.



West-Jones appeals his sentence, claiming that the district court was improperly
influenced by the dismissed allegations against him, that the court failed to adequately
e

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United States of America v. Jerry Ingram

St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged withconspiracy to possess, sell, receive, or dispose of a stolen firearms.



Jerry Ingramargues that the district court erred when itrevoked his supervised 1
release by not abating a previously imposed fine and by ordering him to pay that fine
through th

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United States of America v. Santo Benito Lara

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

Santo Benito Lara, 48, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was indicted for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

Evidence presented during the four-day trial showed that beginning at least in May of 2018, the defendant partici

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United States of America v. Kaleb Cole

Seattle, Washington criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with Conspiracy to Mail Threatening Communications, to Commit Stalking, and to Interfere with Federally Protected Activitie.


Kaleb Cole, 25, a leader of the Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Washington of one count of interfering with a federally pr

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United States of America v. Princess Cruise Lines Ltd.

Miami, Florida environmental law lawyers represented Defendant charged with violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. (Princess) pleaded guilty to a second violation of probation imposed as a result of its 2017 criminal conviction for environmental crimes because it failed to establish and maintain an independent internal investigative office. Under th

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United States of America v. Juan Zamudio

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with four illegal drug and firearm‐related offenses.



In 2016, the government began investigating a metham‐
phetamine trafficking organization in Indianapolis run by
Zamudio’s brother, Jose Zamudio. Jose coordinated the im‐
portation of controlled sub

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United States of America v. Bernardo Guerrero Semana

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with counterfeiting.

Bernardo Guerrero Semana, 28, and Kendra Nicole Sullivan, 27, were arrested in May 2021 in possession of more than $5,600 in counterfeit U.S. currency. In addition to the counterfeit money, law enforcement seized from the defendants’ house several tools commonly used for counterfeiting, includin

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United States of America v. Michael Dexter Little

Orlando, Florida criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Michael Dexter Little was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.

Little had pleaded guilty on October 20, 2021.

According to court documents, from 2019 to 2021, Little filed a series o

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United States of America v. Fessum Ogbazion

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiring with others to commit fraud in connection with the operation of a national tax return preparation company he owned and managed, as well as tax crimes.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Fessum Ogbazion, of Cincinnati, collected millions of dollars in fees while fraudulently

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United States of America v. Xavier Elizondo and David Salgado

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy and theft charges.



A. Factual Background



The criminal scheme. Elizondo and Salgado were Chicago
Police Department (“CPD”) officers assigned to the 10th
district team that worked gang and narcotics

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United States of America v. David Perez

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) charge.



From 2004 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2015, David
Perez was a member of the Latin Kings street gang operating
in the Village of Maywood just west

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United States of America v. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, former director at Chabad of Poway, was sentenced in federal court today to fourteen months in custody for his years-long, multi-million-dollar schemes to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, several San Diego Fortune 500 companie

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United States of America v. Jacob Matthew Medina

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.

Jacob Matthew Medina, 29, of Glendale, Arizona, was charged with conspiring to possess fentanyl and heroin with intent to distribute, in connection with an Internet-based drug trafficking operation.

In November 2018, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began an investigatio

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United States of America v. Cyiana Ashley Wood

Charlotte, North Carolina criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Cyiana Ashley Woods, 38, of Atlanta, Georgia, was charged with wire fraud and money laundering charges, for executing a scheme that defrauded more than 300 Walmart stores of over $850,00.

Judge Bell previously sentenced Woods’s codefendant, Andre Marquese Whit

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United States of America v. Brent Edington

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to “knowingly make[] a false statement or report . . . for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the” Farm Services Agency.



In 2019, the government filed a felony information charging Edington with conspiring to
violat

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United States of America v. Ward Wesley Wright

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with
murder for hire and conspiring to distribute cocaine.



Ward Wright was a member of a motorcycle gang in Michigan. He began distributing
cocaine through his gang connections. When one of Wright’s co-conspirators (David Moore)
had a fal

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United States of America v. Lazelle Maxwell

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin.



In 2008, a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky indicted Lazelle Maxwell for
conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin. See 21 U.S.C. § 846. A jury found Maxwell
guilty of both

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United States of America v. Jason Rosales

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and attempt to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine charge.



In February 2017, Monica Duran agreed to transport drugs for her boyfriend “Christian”
from Santa Ana,

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United States of America v. Matthew C. McPherson

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with fraud.
An Olathe, Kansas, man who conspired with others to control construction businesses that received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government contracts, was sentenced in federal court today for defrauding the government with respect to contracts set aside for service-disabled veterans and certif

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United States of America v. Kenneth Kimball

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple drug-trafficking, weapons, and money-laundering offenses, as well as soliciting murder, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice charges.



In April 2020, Kimball filed a pro se motion for compassionate release based on the
COVID-19 pandemic.

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United States of America v. William Wheat, Jr.

Cleveland, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts. The first with a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin and 40 grams of fentanyl. The second with using a communication facility (his phone) in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.



Reels oper

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State of Oklahoma v. Thomas Cline Wilkin

El Reno, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with; Count # 1. Count as Filed: DU8TM1, TRAFFICKING IN ILLEGAL DRUGS, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-415
Date of Offense: 12/05/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
WILKIN, THOMAS CLINE Disposed: CONVICTION, 01/04/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: TRAFFICKING IN ILLEGAL DRUGS(DU8TM1)
Violation of 63 O.S.

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United States of America v. Ricky and Katrina Lanier

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy, wire fraud, and major fraud against the federal government charges.



Ricky and Katrina Lanier were tried for conspiracy, wire fraud, and major
fraud against the federal government. R. 151 (Second Superseding Indictment at 1–28) (Page ID

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United States of America v. Josh Small and Joni Johnson

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aiding and abetting a kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges.



Small and Johnson were indicted for aiding and abetting a kidnapping and
conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1), (c). At trial, Linda
Spo

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Hampton

Cleveland, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting possession of a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy charges.



In 2009, Hampton pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and aiding and
abetting possession of a firearm in furtherance of

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