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United States of America v. David Altenburg

Portland, Maine criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with wire fraud, etc.

David Altenburg, 46, from Bath, was charged with wire fraud, money laundering, transferring property to prevent seizure, and aggravated identity theft.

According to court records, between February 2019 and September 2020, Altenburg used his access to his employer’s financial accounts ... More...
   $0 (12-13-2021 - ME)

United States of America v. John Barry, Jr.

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.

A New Jersey mortgage underwriter was charged for helping others file false tax returns claiming large refunds from the IRS, obstructing the IRS’s efforts to recover those illegal refunds and failing to file a tax return.

John Barry Jr., of Pemberton, was convi... More...
   $0 (12-13-2021 - NJ)

United States of America v. Scott Ginsberg

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a bank fraud charge.



We view the trial evidence in the light most favorable to
the government. United States v. Wade, 962 F.3d 1004, 1012
(7th Cir. 2020). In 2007, Scott Ginsberg learned of apartments
changing into condominiums in Roselle, Ill... More...
   $0 (12-11-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Linda Nulf

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with three felony charges: two counts of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution charges.



Linda Nulf worked as a licensed loan originator in
Illinois. For approximately three years, she and two codefendants participa... More...
   $0 (12-09-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Vicki Boser

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Vicki Boser, age 58, owned and operated InsuranceTek, Inc., and pocketed premium payments from insurance clients and provided fake certificates of insurance to some of those companies. Boser used the money to support her gambling habit at area casinos. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judg... More...
   $0 (12-08-2021 - WA)

United States of America v. Anis Chalhoub

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a defrauding health care benefit programs.



Dr. Anis Chalhoub practiced invasive cardiology in London, Kentucky, with several
practice groups between 1999 and 2013. From 1999 to 2008, Chalhoub practiced with a group
of physicians called Cardio... More...
   $0 (12-05-2021 - OH)

United States of America v. Gary Basralian

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire and investment advisor fraud.



For 28 years Basralian worked as a registered broker, providing investment
advisement services to clients for a securities firm that served as national broker-dealer
for independent financial advisors. B... More...
   $0 (12-01-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Andrew Lucas, Diamond Developers at Burke Farm, LLC

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of wire fraud; one count of engaging in an illegal monetary transaction; one count of loan application fraud; three counts of making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service; three counts of aggravated identity theft; one count of obstructing a grand jury investigation; and on... More...   $0 (11-29-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Lewis Whoolery

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud.



In 2001, Whoolery started First Capital Home Equity, a Pittsburgh-based
residential mortgage broker. Through this company, Whoolery and his employees
prepared over 400 fraudulent mortgage loans. In Janua... More...
   $0 (11-29-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. James Davis

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant convicted of honest services wire fraud and conspiracy.



Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. (“Reach”), an advertising
company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. (“RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business.
Since 1989, Reach publi... More...
   $0 (11-27-2021 - NY)

MARCIA MELENDEZ, et al v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al.

New York, NY - Constitutional law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued the City and various named City officials seeking a judgment declaring the challenged laws unconstitutional and for an injunction permanently enjoining their enforcement.



In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments at all
levels—federal... More...
   $0 (11-26-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Ronald Speiser and Jean Speiser

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense attorneys represented defendants charged with fraud.

Ronald Speiser, 81, and Jean Speiser, 81, of Freeburg, Illinois, will spend
their next year in home confinement making restitution payments after defrauding an
elderly family member out of nearly $200,000. The Speisers pled guilty to two counts of fraud and
were senten... More...
   $0 (11-23-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Calvin Curtis

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Attorney Calvin Curtis, 61, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty in federal court today to two counts involving wire fraud and money laundering for his role in embezzling at least $9.5 million dollars from clients of his estate planning law firm based in Salt Lake C... More...
   $0 (11-18-2021 - UT)

United States of America v. Carl Palladinetti

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and making false statements.



Palladinetti admits to knowingly participating in a yearslong scheme to defraud lenders. He and several others used
this scheme to purchase at least thirty apartment buildings in
the Chicago area and... More...
   $0 (11-13-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. VIVIAN TAT

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of making a false entry in bank records and second count of the same offense charges.



This appeal stems from a sting operation to uncover
money laundering near Los Angeles. In 2014, the
government indicted Ruimin Zhao; Raymond Tan,... More...
   $0 (11-01-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Vinath Oudomsine

Dublin, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with wire fraud for lying on an application for fedeeral coronavirus relief aid which he used to by a Polemon card for $57,798.

Those loans, meant for small businesses impacted by the pandemic, can be used for expenses such as payroll, sick leave, production costs, debt and rent or mortgage payments. But prosecut... More...
   $0 (10-25-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. David Sosa-Baladron and Belkis Soca-Fernandez

Cincinnati, Ohio- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged for health care fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. On appeal, Sosa-Baladron and Soca-Fernandez challenge their convictions based on the sufficiency of evidence, constructive amendments, and evidentiary rulings.





In 2012... More...
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United States of America v. RANDLE CURTIS DANIELS

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with bank theft and money laundering charges.



Colonial Savings held the mortgage on Daniels’s home. A hail
storm damaged its roof. His insurance company sent him a check for
$46,000 to cover the cost of repairs.
2
Aware of the mortgage, the ... More...
   $0 (10-23-2021 - LA)

United States of America v. Carlos Rafael Castaneda Mendez, et al.

Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with stealing identities, creating and using fake foreign passports, impersonating homeowners, and falsifying loan documents to trick lenders into providing millions of dollars of mortgage loans on unencumbered residential properties.

The scheme followed a general pattern. First, the fraudsters would identify residentia... More...
   $0 (10-20-2021 - FL)

United States of America v. James Davis

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charges.



Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. (“Reach”), an advertising
company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. (“RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business.
Since 1989, Reach... More...
   $0 (10-19-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Dean Rossi

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with defrauding three federally insured banks into loaning him approximately $4.15 million.



Though we write only for the parties, Rossi raises a sufficiency of the evidence
claim and sentencing challenges that require us to explain the facts in some det... More...
   $0 (10-19-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Tracey Ray

St. Louis, MO: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Tracey Ray, 48, of Center, Missouri, was the City Clerk of Center, Missouri for many years, since 2004. Beginning in January 2015 and continuing through July 2019, Ray engaged in a scheme to defraud and obtain money from Center, Missouri and its residents in an approximate amount of $315,000, by means of... More...
   $0 (10-18-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Richard Allen Clark

Charlotte, NC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement.

Richard Allen Clark, 55, of Lenoir, N.C., was indicted for embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer.

According to filed court documents and statements made in court, from 2013 to 2019, Clark was employed as an office manager for two family-owned businesses in Lenoir, and was re... More...
   $0 (10-14-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Jasiel F. Correia, II

Boston, MA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud and to extort money from marijuana vendors.

Jasiel F. Correia II, the former Mayor of Fall River, Mass., was charged for his involvement in a scheme to defraud investors and extorting and conspiring to extort marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In October 2018, Correia... More...
   $0 (09-22-2021 - MA)

United States of America v. Larry Black, Jr.

Birmingham, AL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud his former employer Chick-fil-A.

Larry James Black, Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former Director of Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Five Points, charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Black’s co-defendant, Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former manager at the same ... More...
   $0 (09-21-2021 - AL)

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