Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to internationally distribute cocaine. As part of the sentence, the Court entered a forfeiture money judgment of $10 million.

According to court filings and proceedings, from 2009 through 2014, Carlos Gentil Ordonez, age 50, from Cauca, Columbia, participated in a massive international drug traffick... More...   $0 (08-04-2021 - NY)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder at least $30 million in drug proceeds on behalf of foreign drug-trafficking organizations. Another Chinese national was sentenced to seven years in prison today for his role in the same conspiracy.

According to court documents, Xizhi Li, 48, played a leadership role within a years-long c... More...   $0 (08-03-2021 - VA)

Dublin, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with dog-fighting in Dodge County.

Benjaman Shinhoster III, a/k/a “Benji,” 41, of Louisville, Ga., was charged for Sponsoring and Exhibiting a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture.

“It is appalling that anyone could find ‘entertainment’ from forcing animals into bloody and often fatal fights,” said Act... More...   $0 (08-03-2021 - GA)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with his role in a sophisticated fraud scheme involving millions of dollars in diverted pharmaceutical drugs.

Joshua Ryan Joles managed one of the wholesale companies involved in the scheme. Rather than pay full price to drug manufacturers for HIV, cancer, and other expensive medications, Joles bought his wholesale sup... More...   $0 (08-03-2021 - FL)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with charged with possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

Guy Wesley White, age 53, of Edmond, Oklahoma was indicted for being in possession of a firearm after being convicted domestic violence.

Public record reflects that in January 2020, law enforcement ... More...   $0 (07-30-2021 - OK)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.

Michael Moses George, age 41, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was indicted on a Drug Conspiracy charge.

The United States presented evidence that beginning in July 2019, and continuing until December 2020, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, George conspired wit... More...   $0 (07-30-2021 - ok)

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering.

Dinesh Sah, 55, of Coppell, submitted 15 fraudulent applications, filed under the names of various purported businesses that he owned or controlled, to eight different lenders seeking approximately $24.8 million in PPP loans. Sah claimed that these businesses had numerous employees and hundreds of t... More...   $0 (07-28-2021 - TX)

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally obtaining a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the world’s oldest works of literature.

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and entered the United States contrary to federal law. An interna... More...   $0 (07-27-2021 - NY)

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit theft of public money, theft of public money and aggravated identity theft.

From 2011 to 2013, Devell Lincoln, 55, conspired with Stephanie Twyman and others to cash tax refund checks fraudulently obtained by filing false federal income tax returns in the names of other individuals with the... More...   $0 (07-26-2021 - MD)

Greenville, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Marvette Thompson Easterling, 54, of Gaffney; Keylon Wright, 40, of Simpsonville; and Joshua David Armato, 37, of Georgia; admitted that they knowingly defrauded a program established to help homeowners at risk of mortgage loan ... More...   $0 (07-24-2021 - SC)

Los Angeles, California family law lawyers represent Petitioner and Respondent in dissolution of marriage (divorce) case.

Angelina Jolie filed a statement of disqualification challenging Judge John W. Ouderkirk (Ret.), the privately compensated temporary judge selected by Jolie and William Bradley Pitt to hear their family law case, based on Judge Ouderkirk’s failure to disclose, as re... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, aggravated identity theft, and credit union fraud.

“With today’s sentence, the defendant has been held accountable for the serious nature of his crimes, including his recruitment of over 50 co-conspirators to participate in an extensive fraud scheme invol... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - VA)

Charleston, West Virgnia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and three counts of money laundering.

Nedeltcho Vladimirov, 53, a native of Bulgaria, was convicted by a jury after a three day trial

Evidence at trial revealed that Vladimirov operated a fraudulent fencing operation - a scheme in which stolen goods were acqu... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - WV)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring with others to collect firearms and exchange them for marijuana to sell on the black market.

Shelvon Tyrone Williams, 27, pleaded guilty to firearms conspiracy.

In his plea agreement, Williams admitted that from November 2018 to March 2020, he collected and transported firearms from Oklahoma t... More...   $0 (07-20-2021 - OK)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in two frauds: the first, a scheme to steal over $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows; the second, concealing his criminal history on applications for COVID-19 relief loans.

Benjamin Rafael, 31, of South Florida, previously admitted his role in legiti... More...   $0 (07-20-2021 - FL)

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant indicted for distribution of methamphetamine.

Melroy Johnson, Sr., 66, from Sioux City, Iowa, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The verdict was returned last Friday morning following about 2 ½ hours of jury deliberations.

Evidence at ... More...   $0 (07-20-2021 - IA)

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and distribution of cocaine.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Juan Gabriel Rodriguez-Preciado, 43, facilitated the trafficking of kilogram quantities of cocaine between a Mexican cartel and a regional drug traffi... More...   $0 (07-20-2021 - VA)

Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.

A Chinese national was indicted for conspiring to submit false export information through the federal government’s Automated Export System and to export maritime raiding craft and engines to China fraudulently, and attempting to export that equipment fraudulently in ... More...   $0 (07-17-2021 - FL)