Atlanta, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy and wire fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, and for bank fraud, and making false statements to a financial institution related a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application.

Maurice Fayne planned to use the PPP program as a cover for his long-running Ponzi scheme. The funds the program supp... More...   $0 (09-20-2021 - GA)

Detroit, MI: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, embezzlement and stealing funds from a charitable organization.

In March 2012, John R. Lynch, age 56, became the CFO of the Holy Cross organization, and in January 2015 he became its CEO. Holy Cross was established in 1948 when Boysville of Michigan was incorporated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic... More...   $0 (09-16-2021 - MI)

Las Vegas, NV: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS as part of a fraudulent refund scheme.

Jabari Laquan Marshall, who was serving a federal prison sentence for a prior mortgage fraud conviction, and his brother Jalen Tony Henry devised a scheme to defraud the IRS. As part of the scheme, Marshall provided Henry with false documents and d... More...   $0 (09-09-2021 - NV)

Brookyn, New York: Mortgage fraud by unlicensed broker criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brent Kaufman, age 50, who was charged by indictment stealing $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were meant to pay off the existing mortgages of his clients. Defendant was accused for stealing nearly $5 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds.

“With today’s guilty pl... More...   $0 (09-02-2021 - NY)

Miami, FL: Seth A. Bernstein, the owner of jet charter company All in Jets LLC dba JetReady, located in Florida, was accused of misappropriating Payment Protection Program (PPP) loan proceeds for his personal use. JetReady is a jet charter operator with its principal place of business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The United States alleged that Bernstein, on behalf of JetReady, applied fo... More...   $0 (08-26-2021 - FL)

Hammond, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud.

Mohammed Shahbaz Khan, age 46, of Bourbonnais, Illinois, was charged with making false claims related to mortgage assistance from the Hardest Hit Fund, a federal mortgage assistance initiative offered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The purpose of the Hardest Hit ... More...   $0 (08-16-2021 - IN)

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

SHENG-WEN CHENG, a/k/a “Justin Cheng,” a/k/a “Justin Jung,” wwas charged with multiple fraud schemes he perpetrated. In particular, CHENG engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $7 million in Government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pa... More...   $0 (08-11-2021 - NY)

San Diego, Civil Litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) violation theory claiming to have suffered $420,000 in damages.

12 U.S.C. 2601 provides:

(a) The Congress finds that significant reforms in the real estate settlement process are needed to insure that consumers throughout the Nation are provided with g... More...   $0 (08-09-2021 - CA)

¶1 The dispositive issue presented for review in this abuse of process action filed by the counterclaimants is whether the third-party plaintiff's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence should have been sustained and a verdict directed for the third-party plaintiff.

¶2 We answer in the affirmative and reverse the judgment appealed.

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¶3 Underlying the lawsuit - ... More...   $0 (07-27-2021 - OK)

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)

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

John Barry Jr., of Pemberton, and his co-conspirators falsely represented to clients that they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by obtaining tax refunds. To carry out the scheme, Barry and his co-conspirators filed forms with the IRS that fraudulently cla... More...   $0 (07-24-2021 - NJ)

Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements.

A former Lynchburg attorney, who specialized in elder law and estate planning, was indicted for wire fraud and making false statements.

Cherie Anne Washburn, 45, engaged in a scheme to defraud and obtain money or property by fraudulent pretenses, representations or... More...   $0 (07-14-2021 - VA)

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with bank fraud.

A father and son were arrested and charged in a bank fraud scheme in which they provided fraudulent information to financial institutions for the purpose of purchasing boats, luxury vehicles, and heavy equipment, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special ... More...   $0 (07-09-2021 - AL)

Charlotte, North Carolina embezzlement charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Lisa Buza Hill, 41, of Belmont, N.C., who was charged for wire fraud and making false statements for embezzling more than $570,000 from two companies that employed herHill was previously convicted of stealing more than $800,000 from a third company where she was employed.

In 2012, Hill, also know... More...   $0 (07-04-2021 - NC)

Raleigh, North Carolina Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Making False Statements to a Bank on Loan, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Perjury charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants.

Eight defendants pleaded guilty today to offenses contained in a 50-count, 2nd Superseding Indictment charging various forms of Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commi... More...   $0 (07-04-2021 - NC)

San Francisco, California wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, attorney John Arthur Hudson who was wire fraud based on fraudulent loans he obtained that were secured by real property held in a trust that he administered.

Hudson, 71, an attorney whose law practice was based in the Monterey County area, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud on October 28, 2020. Ac... More...   $0 (06-10-2021 - CA)

Seattle, Washington fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Arunkumar Singal, age 42, who, as a former manager of a Snoqualmie, Washington medical device company, defraud his employer of nearly $800,000 in used equipment sales. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones told Singal, “You put everything at risk for one thing: to add to your wealth….. Yo... More...   $0 (06-09-2021 - WA)

St. Louis, Missouri consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Truth in Lending violation.

The Truth in Lending Act (TILA) of 1968 is a United States federal law designed to promote the informed use of consumer credit, by requiring disclosures about its terms and cost to standardize the manner in which costs associated with borrowing are calculated and disclosed.[1... More...   $0 (05-28-2021 - MO)

Dallas, Texas consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Equifax Information Services, LLC, Trans Union LLC, Innovis Data Solutions Inc, and Nationstar Mortgage LLC on Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1861) violation theories.
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Providence, Rhode Island CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud charge lawyers represented Defendants.

David Adler Staveley, a/k/a Kurt David Sanborn, a/k/a David Sanborn, 54, of Andover, MA, admitted he conspired with David Andrew Butziger, 53, of Warwick, RI, to file four fraudulent PPP loan applications with a Rhode Island bank, falsely claiming they owned businesses with la... More...   $0 (05-23-2021 - RI)