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United States of America v. Charles A. “Chuck” Jones and Mark J. Whitaker

Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the
Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) E-rate program.

Charles A. “Chuck” Jones, 52, and Mark J. Whitaker, 51, both of Murray, Kentucky, were accused of conspiring to defraud the government.

The E- rate program is an FCC program that provides money to needy schoo

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United States of America v. Daniel Joseph Guenther

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Daniel Guenther, 58, of Louisville was indicted for attempting to access with intent to view child pornography after having been previously convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography and child molesting.

In 2007, Guenther had previously been convicted of

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United States of America v. Timothy Milley

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with using the internet to entice of a 15-year-old girl to engage in illegal sexual activity.

Timothy Milley, 69, of suburban Toronto, Canada, was sentenced by United States District Judge Judith E. Levy. In October 2022, Milley was convicted of the online enticement of a metro-Detroit minor. The investigation revea

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United States of America v. Chris Bao Nguyen

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with eceipt of child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(2) and (b)(1).

The case against Chirs Bao Nguyen resulted from a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”) CyberTip report to the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (“LBI”). Homeland Security

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United States of America v. Marcus Alan Vincent Urelius

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Between April 2021, and January 2022, Marcus Alan Vincent Urelius, age 36, from Farmhamville, Iowa, used an Internet-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) network known as “Freenet” to knowingly receive visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

This case w

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United States of America v. Marquis Williams

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with creating pornographic images of children.

In February 2023, Marquis Williams, 31, of Shawnee pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child.

According to court documents in May 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent information to the Shawnee Police Depart

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United States of America v. Charles Joseph Raz

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with internet to distribute meth.

On May 9, 2023, Charles Joseph Raz, age 42, of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

During the plea hearing, Raz admitted that on November 27, 2021, he was stopped by a Latimer County Sheriff’s Deputy f

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Christopher Sadowski v. Impcto Latin New,s Inc., d/b/a Impacto Latino

New York City, New York intellectual property lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a copyright infringement theory.

Copyright infringement is the use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright infringement can take many forms, including:

Copying or distributing a copyrighted work without permission.
Performing or di

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Hothman Misane, et al. v. City of Bangor, Michigan, et al.

Grand Rapids, Michigan civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on employment discrimination theories.

Plaintiffs Hothman Misane, Tyler Sleep, and Jerol Williams filed a complaint alleging eleven different but related counts against Defendants Tommy Simpson, Scott Graham, Darren Williams, and the City of Bangor." Misane v. City of Bango.


Misane, Sleep,

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Ryan Dumas v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc.

West Palm Beach, Florida consumer law lawyer represent Plaintiff who sued defendant on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act violation theory under 47 U.S.C. 227, which provides, in part:

(b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment
(1) ProhibitionsIt shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is withi

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United States of America v. Jordy Julian Alvarez

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of extortion and cyberstalking a Utah victim and her family.

Jordy Julian Alvarez, 28, a Texas resident, repeatedly harassed and intimidated the female victim to provide an explicit video or he would release to the public compromising photos and videos of the victim already in his possession.

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United States of America v. Jeremiah Sam Evans Miller, aka “John The Dev”

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy and violating the computer fraud and abuse act related to the operation of a booter service.

As part of an ongoing initiative targeting computer attack “booter” services, the Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 13 internet domains associated with these DDoS-for-hire

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United States of America v. Bradley Boisen

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted sex trafficking of a child.

Bradley Boisen, age 26, of Waterford, New York, admitted that on April 21, 2021, he met someone over the internet and agreed to pay this person $100 to engage in sexual acts with a 14-year-old child. That same day, Boisen traveled to a location in Albany, where he was to mee

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United States of America v. Robin J. McPherson

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion, fraud and failing to appear for sentencing in 2001.

Robin J. McPherson, formerly of San Diego and who was apprehended in Costa Rica and returned to the United States last year, failed to appear for his sentencing in March 2001 following a December 2000 bench trial convicting him and two co-defend

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United States of America v. Steven Luckett

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography.

In October 2020, the Fayetteville, Arkansas, Police Department began investigating allegations that five minor children were being sexually assaulted by Steven Luckett, age 38, while they lived in Little Rock. A number of the minor victims were interviewed and disclosed that

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United States of America v. David Bryon King

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted distribution and possessing child pornography.

David Bryon King, age 57, a contractor working as a fire inspector for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, admitted that he distributed child pornography to others in 2022, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2522A(a)(2)(B), and possessed child pornography in

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United States of America v. Lawrence Aquilla Colby, IV, a/k/a “Buddy”

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to sexually abuse a child, from the age of approximately four months to two years old, to producing and receiving images documenting the sexual abuse of the child, and to possession of child pornography.


Lawrence Aquilla Colby, IV, a/k/a “Buddy,” age 34, of Elkton, Maryland, admitted that

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Crystal Carter, et al. v. Scripps Networks, LLC

New York, New York consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sales records in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2710, which provides:

(a) Definitions.—For purposes of this section—
(1) the term “consumer” means any renter, purchaser, or subscriber of goods or services from a video tape service provider;
(2) th

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United States of America v. Sean Patrick Fosler

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of pornography.

On Dec. 2, 2021, a confidential source notified HSI that Sean Patrick Fosler, age 30, had live-streamed an incident of sexually explicit conduct with a then eight-year-old child through Snapchat. During the investigation, HSI agents located two Snapchat accounts belonging to Fosle

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United States of America v. Andrew Stephen Couch

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography.

Andrew Stephen Couch, age 37, agreed to plead guilty to an indictment charging him with two counts of production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a).

According to the filed plea agreement, in December 2019, after receiving a report

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State of New York v. Kevin Monahan

Fort Edward, New York criminal defense lawyer representing Defendant charged with second-degree murder.

Kevin Monahan, age 65, shot and killed Kaylin Gillis, age 20, as the attempted to turn her car around using his driveway.

The shooting occurred late at night in a section of Washington County, about 60 miles northeast of Albany, where many roads are made of dirt and not well l

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United States of America v. James Zhong

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

James Zhong was accused of committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained approximaely 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Back in 2012, James Zhong committed wire fraud by stealing 50,000 Bitcoin f

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United States of America v. Wesley Deal

Bangor, Maine criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually exploiting a child and two counts of distributing child pornography.

In August 2020, Wesley Deal, 42, began communicating with an 11-year-old child on Instagram. He sent multiple messages requesting sexually explicit images, and the victim responded by sending multiple sexually explicit photos and videos to

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United States of America v. Nishith Tharaka Vandebona

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making threatening telephone calls last year, including to a Planned Parenthood office on the day the United States Supreme Court overturned its Roe v. Wade decision.

Nishith Tharaka Vandebona, 34, currently of Bakersfield, but who lived in Camarillo during the alleged offenses, is charged with three misde

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United States of America v. Christian Lee Birse

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of more than 500 images of child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices.

Christian Lee Birse, 24, pleaded guilty to distribution and receipt of child pornography.

In his plea agreement, Birse admitted to distributing and receiving child pornography via social media from Jan. 13, 2021,

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