San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bribery of a public official.

Paul Fredrick Giusti, the former Group Government & Community Relations Manager for the San Francisco group of a waste management company, was charged in an information filed yesterday with one count of conspiracy to bribe a local official and commit honest services fraud and... More...   $0 (07-30-2021 - CA)

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing false tax returns.

Jason Ellis of Poway pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing a false tax return as part of a years’ long tax-evasion scheme with former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein.

Until around 2018, Rabbi Goldstein was the director and head rabbi at Chabad of Poway, ... More...   $0 (07-30-2021 - CA)

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with misappropriating more than $1.1 million from four employers and three lending institutions.

PAUL ERIC COLLINS, 55, of Naperville, Ill., pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud. U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo imposed a 98-month prison sentence Wednesday after a hearing in federal court in Chicago. Judge Buc... More...   $0 (07-28-2021 - IL)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax fraud.

Brittany Patterson, of Jefferson Parish, and others conspired to file false tax returns for clients of Pelicans Income Tax and Payroll Services, a return preparation business located in Kenner and Westwego, Louisiana. Patterson and others prepared client returns reporting false income and withhold... More...   $0 (07-28-2021 - LA)

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)

Lexington, Kentucky clinical laboratory represented by a civil litigation lawyer accused of violating the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits submitting false or fraudulent claims to the federal government.

The Unites States alleged three issues relating to claims for urine drug testing services that Bluewater Toxicology, LLC submitted to Medicare, Kentucky Medicaid, Indiana Me... More...   $1252403 (07-27-2021 - KY)

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with prescribing powerful controlled substances, including opioids, to patients without medical necessity and outside the usual course of medical practice.

Evidence presented at trial established that between 2015 and 2019, Bauer, at his practice in Bellevue, Ohio, repeatedly prescribed controlled substances including ... More...   $0 (07-26-2021 - OH)

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a Ponzi scheme.

Howard L. Young, 75, the founder of a Nashville-based holistic wellness business was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Young was charged in a criminal Information in October 2020 with four counts of bank fraud; six counts of wire fraud; and ag... More...   $0 (07-26-2021 - TN)

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)

Austin, Texas personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendants on a fraud theory.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available.

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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)

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax fraud.

Charles D. Holley, aka Charlei Diwan Holley, owned and operated a data brokerage business. As part of this business, Holley purchased data information from state motor vehicle agencies, which she re-sold to various buyers. Holley set up bank accounts in which to deposit the proceeds of her busines... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary.

During the relevant time period, Medicare reimbursed skilled nursing facilities at a daily rate that reflected the skilled therapy and nursing needs of qua... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit tax fraud and Aid in Preparing and Presenting False Tax Returns.

From 2012 through 2016, Audrey Renetta Odom, of Durham, conspired with Karen Jones and Andrea Pasley t prepare false returns for clients. The returns fraudulently lowered the clients’ tax liabilities or inflated their... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - NC)

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)

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Angelica Garcia Dunn admitted to diverting over $2.2 million in vendor payments to her own business accounts. She worked as a contract escrow agent with BP. As part of her duties, she provided third-party services by making vendor payments to BP’s railcar lessors and repair vendors. Dunn received lump ... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally exporting integrated circuits with military applications to China the required filing of electronic export information.

Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was convicted on July 2, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export ... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks.

Nasheed Jackson, 24, of Newark, and Alexander Varice, 22, and Dashawn Duncan, 27, both of South Orange, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to informations ch... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - NJ)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.

Alexander S. Rowland, 30, formerly of Penns Grove, NJ, was sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $2.1 million restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Karen Spencer Marston, for d... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, Health Care Fraud, and Conspiracy to Distribute Phentermine Hydrochloride and Diethylpropion.

Thomas Whitten, age 71, of Greensburg, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William S. Stickman.

In connection with the guilty plea, the ... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, frauds and swindles, engaging in wrongful monetary transactions and making false statements.

Defendant, the suspended insurance commissioner of Georgia, was accused of being a fraudster who orchestrated a

a scheme to channel millions from the Georgia Underwriting Association through a serie... More...   $0 (07-23-2021 - GA)