Conspiracy Law
 
United States of America v. Chimene Hamilton Onyeri

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant for conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) charge.



Onyeri’s criminal activities involved a multitude of misdeeds that
spanned almost half a decade. Pertinent to this appeal is his criminal
miscon

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United States of America v. Ricky Allen Fackrell; Christopher Emory Cramer

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with being sentenced to death for a prison murder charge.



Ricky Allen Fackrell and Christopher Cramer were imprisoned at
USP Beaumont. Both were convicted of the June 2014 prison murder of Leo
Johns. Fackrell was a lieutenant in the Soldiers of Ar

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United States of America v. Kristen Naylor-Legg

Charleston, WV: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking a 17-year-old female.

Kristen Naylor-Legg, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor under the age of 18.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on two separate occasions in June 2020, Naylor-Legg entered into an agreement with her co-defe

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United States of America v. Jonathon Nora

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with three crimes: conspiracy to commit health care fraud; conspiracy to pay or receive illegal health care kickbacks; and aiding and abetting health care fraud charges.



While Nora is the sole appellant in this case, he was not alone at trial.
Nora was

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United States of America v. Phillip Shawn Horton,

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine charge.



Horton pleaded guilty for possession with intent to distribute 500
grams or more of methamphetamine after an investigation into the drug
trafficking activities

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United States of America v. Matthew Gatrel, a/k/a Fluffy

Los Angeles, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet.

Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was charged with one count of conspiracy to

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United States of America v. Alan Varela

San Francisco, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bribing a public official.

Alan Varela was indicted for engaging in a seven year conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud by bribing a San Francisco public official.

A federal complaint filed September 17, 2020, charged Varela, 60, of Orinda, and William Gilmartin, 61, of San Mateo, with bribery

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United States of America v. John Sanchez

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine charge.



John Sanchez, federal prisoner # 03718-180, pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of
cocaine, in

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United States of America v. Hector Menocal-Ruiz

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charges.



Hector Guillermo Menocal-Ruiz pled guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreemen

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United States of America v. Eric Andrews

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with thirteen robberies, conspiring to commit the robberies, and brandishing a firearm during the completed crimes charges.



During a one-month period in 2005, Eric Andrews and
a group of his confederates robbed thirteen North Philadelphia
businesses

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United States of America v. Ivan Armenta

Seattle, WA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.

Ivan Armenta, 21, was separated from the Navy and taken into federal custody August 7, 2020. Armenta provided pills tainted with fentanyl to another sailor who died of a drug overdose. Armenta had been warned the pills could be deadly, but still shared them with his friends.

“T

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United States of America v. Kalyn Marie Moskaloff

Missoula, MT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug trafficking.

Kalynn Marie Moskaloff, 25, was charged for possession with intent to distribute meth.

The government alleged in court documents that law enforcement investigators learned that Moskaloff was involved in distributing meth in Flathead County. Several witnesses told law enforcement that they

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United States of America v. Michael Arrington

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to do the same, and traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to facilitate unlawful activity charges.



Arrington has a long criminal history, including
multiple drug

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United States of America v. Mark Icker

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a depriving individuals of their civil rights under color of law charge.



From March 2018 until his termination, Icker worked as
a part-time uniformed police officer in Luzerne and
Lackawanna counties in Pennsylvania. During this time, and

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United States of America v. Ian Michael Ivey

Lincoln, Nebraska conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine mixture charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Ian Michael Ivey, age 24, of Lincoln.

Starting around February 1, 2018 and continuing until April 23, 2020, Ivey conspired with at least nine others to distribute methamphetamine in the Lincoln area. During that time, Ivey purchased up to pound quantities of methamphet

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United States of America v. Emily Claire Hari, a/k/a Michael Hari

St. Paul, Minnesota defacing, damaging or destroying any religious real property because of the religious character of the property charge criminal defense lawyer represented Emily Claire Hari, a/k/a Michael Hari, age 50.

On December 9, 2020, following a five-week trial, Hari was convicted by a federal jury on all five counts of the indictment, including intentionally defacing, damaging,

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United States of America v. Travis Gordon Jones

Dubuque, Iowa conspiracy to distribute controlled substance resulting in death charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Travis Gordon Jones, a/k/a Travie McFly, age 40.

Jones admitted that he conspired with others to distribute the opioids in Dubuque in April and May 2019. Jones also admitted that he personally sold mixtures of heroin, fentanyl, and a synthetic opioid calle

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United States of America v. JUAN JARMON a/k/a J, a/k/a YIZZO United States of America v. EDWARD STINSON, a/k/a E-Black

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with selling large
amounts of crack cocaine in a public housing complex charge.



Edward Stinson and Juan Jarmon were tried, convicted,
and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for selling large
amounts of crack cocaine in a public housing com

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United States of America v. SELBOURNE WAITE

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with four counts of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence charges.



A. Offense Conduct

From approximately 1997 to 2007, Waite was a member of the Dekalb
Avenue Crew (the “Crew”), a criminal organization

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United States of America v. DARREN GOODRICH

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to commit securities fraud charge.



I. Factual Background
In November 2015, Goodrich was indicted along with several co-defendants for
his involvement in a “pump and dump” market manipulation scheme.1 The operative
Super

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United States of America v. Benjamin Gray Burris

Fayetteville, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud.

Benjamin Gray Burris, age 49, pleaded guilty to count one of an Indictment issued by a grand jury charging him with conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. Burris was charged with additional counts of honest services wire fraud, but according to the terms

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United States of America v. JOSEPH PERCOCO, STEVEN AIELLO, JOSEPH GERARDI, LOUIS CIMINELLI, ALAIN KALOYEROS, AKA DR. K and PETER GALBRAITH KELLY, JR., MICHAEL LAIPPLE, KEVIN SCHULER

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to engage in wire fraud by engaging in a scheme to rig the bidding processes for New York State-funded projects charges.



I. The Facts3
A. The Buffalo Billion Initiative
In 2012, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo launched an initiative to

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United States of America v. David Long

Washington, DC - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with numerous violent racketeering offenses charges.



As a general rule, a federal court “may not modify a term
of imprisonment once it has been imposed.” 18 U.S.C.
3
§ 3582(c). But this rule of finality is subject to a few narrow
excep

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United States of America v. Eric Eoin Marques

Greenbelt, MD: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to advertise child pornography.

Eric Eoin Marques, 36, of Dublin, Ireland, pleaded guilty on Feb. 6, 2020 to conspiracy to advertise child pornography. According to court documents, between July 24, 2008 and July 29, 2013, Marques operated a free anonymous hosting service located on the dark web, an area

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United States of America v. Anthony "Joey" Ventrella

Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud involving the distribution of illegal products falsely labeled as dietary supplements.

Anthony ”Joey” Ventrella, 43, of Boynton Beach, joined several alleged co-conspirators in committing mail and wire fraud, as well as defrauding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by using dishonest methods to preven

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