Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and Theft of Government Property. Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay

Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay

Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. from about March 2022 to November 2024, Jonathan Leissler, 44, of Stow, Ohio, worked at an industrial supply company in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, as its chief financial officer (CFO). This role allowed him access to sensitive data such as payroll, expenditures, accounts payable, and company credit cards. H

Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, by committing crop insurance fraud. Larry Walden, age 69, owned and rented farmland in Barren County, on which he grew burley tobacco, among other crops. He maintained insurance coverage over his tobacco crop from at least 2014 to 2023. For Crop Years 2014 through 2019, Wa

Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing money from his clients’ bank accounts, preparing false tax returns that fraudulently increased their refunds, and stealing some or all of those refunds. Jason Alexander Jerkins of Franklin pleaded guilty on July 30, 2025. According to court documents and statements made in court, Jerkins, owner of Je

Jackson, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy scheme. Jaivon Davon Taylor, Jadin Winfield, Dennis James Swint, and Nicolas Beltre, all residents of New York state, conspired with each other to use false passports in a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from banks in the Jackson, Mississippi area. These defendants

Aberdeen, Mississippi, one count of Wire Fraud, and a separate count of Money Laundering. The investigation began after IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) received a tip Docterance Atkins, 32, had committed COVID-19 Fraud. IRS-CI conducted a thorough investigation unveiling Atkins’ scheme. In essence, Atkins recruited unsophisticated individuals in the community, and convinced them to fraud

New Orleans, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud schemes while employed as a Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans (“S&WB”) Senior Special Agent, a position that tasked her with investigating the alleged misconduct of other Sewerage & Water Board employees. LEESA AUGUSTINE sentence was imposed on her guilty pleas to three counts of Wire Fraud and

Austin, Texas, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a False Claims Act fraud claim. Dr. Mark Malone, Advanced Pain Care, and related entities have agreed to pay the United States and the State of Texas $13,625,000 to resolve allegations they submitted false claims for urine drug testing to federal and state healthcare programs. The United States will receive $13,590,544.88 and Texas will

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nathan Reis, 47, of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, and previously of Arizona, conspired with others to submit false and fraudulent PPP loan applications to receive loan funds for which they were not eligible. In April 2020, Reis co-founded Blueacorn, purportedly to help small businesses and

Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Yolanda Baker, age 51, defauded the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security (NCDES) by submitting false pandemic unemployment benefits (UI) applications intended for more than $365,000 in federal benefits. From in or about May 2020 to June 2021, Yolanda Baker carr

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and sch

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud.

Norfolk, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. James, a Democrat, was indicted in October on one count of making false statements to a financial institution and one count of bank fraud. She pleaded not guilty to the two charges before the case was dismissed.

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding a victim while posing as federal law enforcement officials.. 18:1349 Wire Fraud Conspiracy (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (1) 18:1951(a) Interference with Commerce by Threat (Indictment filed 12/22/2025) (2) Venkateswara Reddy Chagamreddy, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sai Praveen Kommana, 29

Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants with participating in an an expansive bank fraud conspiracy resulting in significant losses to small businesses and community banks in more than a dozen states. Carlos Aquino Sosa, 26 years old, of Honduras, was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by 1 year of supervised release after pleading guilty to two counts of

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with being an agent of China. United States of America v. Linda Sun is a federal criminal case against Linda Sun, a former high-ranking aide to New York Governors Cuomo and Hochul, who is accused of secretly acting as an unregistered agent for China's government, accepting millions in bribes, and facilitating visa fra

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false federal tax returns. HOLTZ is the owner and chief executive officer of The Holtz Group and was the leader of the fraudulent scheme in which tax preparers at The Holtz Group, including HOLTZ, PELLOT, and SCOTT

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The charges in the Indictment arise from an alleged scheme by LUCAS to raise more than $50 million from investors by falsely representing that their money would be invested in early-stage health and wellness companies, when in fact it was

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary prescriptions. From February 2018 to September 2019, Eric Van Vleet, 30, of Delray Beach, Florida, operated Hype Med LLC, which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions through a telemarketing and telemedicine scheme. As part of the health care fraud

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme. From December 2017 to March 2021, Jesse Foote, 60, of Fairfield, Connecticut, conspired with overseas telemarking call centers, DME suppliers, telemedicine companies, and doctors to submit fraudulent claims to health care b

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Medicare of $172 million, commit money laundering, and pay kickbacks and bribes in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Neil John Aaron Williamsky, 65, of Marlboro, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit

Central Islip, New York, consumer credit law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on Fraud or Truth-In-Lending theories.

New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud.

New York City, New York commercial litigation lawyer represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that it was eligible for a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan. The PPP, administered by the SBA, was created to assist small businesses nationwide adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations such as MMC were