Native American Law
 
United States of America v. Clearlake Oaks County Water District

San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of failing to federal and state grant funds that it received, but was not entitled to keep.

In February 2017, severe winter storms, flooding, and mudslides affected California counties statewide. In June, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declared a major disaster and allowed eligible entitie

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United States of America v. Robert Carter

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.

From June 2020 through March 2021, Robert Carter, age 29, Homewood, Illinois, and others schemed to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department, the Maryland Division of Unemployment Insurance, and the Virginia

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United States of America v. Daniel Jacob Werk

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually abusing a minor girl on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

Daniel Jacob Werk, 38, was accused of sexually abusing a minor in Indian Country.

“Werk used his position with the Fort Belknap Grassland Restoration Project, which is intended to help at-risk Native youth, to recruit a minor

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United States of America v. Frank James

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 10 people during an attack on the New York City subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on April 12, 2022.

Frank James, age 63, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to all 11 counts of a superseding indictment, which included 10 counts of committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transpor

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Wade Volz v. General Mortors, LLC

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on an E.R.I.S.A. breach of fiduciary duty theory.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. ERI

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Eric Sumpter v. The Hartford Life and Accident Company

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania employment Law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a wrongful failure to pay E.R.I.S.A. benefits.

"The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. ER

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United States of America v. Amir Aqeel

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with COVID-19 relief fraud.

Amir Aqeel, 54, of Houston, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $5,583,111.48 for leading the conspiracy, and for conspiring with at least 14 other individuals to submit 75 fraudulent PPP loan applications in 2020. In the applications, the defendants fals

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United States of America v. Chibundu Joseph Anuebunwa

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged for his role in fraudulent business email compromise scams that targeted thousands of victims around the world, including in the United States.

Collectively, the scams attempted to defraud victims of over $3.5 million, resulting in over $2.5 million in actual losses to victims. On June 29, 2023, ANUEBUNWA

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Cruz Antonio Maldonado v. John Christener Trucking, Three Diamond Leasing, LLC, Vernon F. Walters, Jr., American Trucking, Transportation Insurance Co., Richard Hudak, Fedok, LLC

El Reno, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on auto negligence theories. June

Cruz Antonio Maldonado sued John Christener Trucking, Three Diamond Leasing, LLC, Vernon F. Walters, Jr., American Trucking, Transportation Insurance Co., Richard Hudak, Fedok, LLC claiming he was injured and/or damaged in a truck wreck that occurred in Canadian Cou

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Clifford Perkins v. Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority

New Haven, Connecticut civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

In June 1998, GBTA hired Perkins, who identifies as African American, as a bus operator. L.R. 56(a)2 Statement of Facts ¶¶ 1-2, ECF No. 47 (“Pl.'s SMF”); L.R. 56(a)1 Statement of Facts ¶ 1, ECF No. 36-2 (“Defs.' SMF”). Bus operators a

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United States of America v. Washington Trust Company

Providence, Rhode Island civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant who was accused of wrongfully engaging in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Rhode Island.

Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race, colo

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United States of America v. Joseph Oluwafemi Kolawole Akoshile

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tax fraud scheme relating to false tax returns claiming fuel tax credits.

Joseph Oluwafemi Kolawole Akoshile, age 57, of Mansfield, Texas, used multiple aliases to steal millions of dollars from American taxpayers by fraudulently using a tax credit designed to aid business owners, according to U.S. Attorney R

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Eddy Toussaint v. City of New York

New York City, New York civil rights layers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on job discrimination theories.

Plaintiff, Eddy Toussaint, brings this employment discrimination action against Defendants, the City of New York (the “City”), the New York City Department for the Aging (“DFTA”), Caryn Resnick, Sal Rullan, Kamlesh Patel, Jack Rizzo, and John and Jane Does,

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United States of America v. Hardy Carroll Lloyd

Wheeling, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obstruction of the due administration of justice.

Hardy Carroll Lloyd, age 45, of Follansbee, West Virginia pled guilty to making online threats to jurors and witnesses involved in the federal hate crimes trial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooter. Lloy

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Erika Lopez Prater v. Trustees of Hamline University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant claiming to have been wrongfully not hired.

The dispute arises out of the non-renewal of Ms. Lopez Prater's employment contract to teach at Hamline during the Spring of 2023. Hamline hired Ms. Lopez Prater as an Undergraduate Adjunct Instructor to teach a World Art class for the Fall 2022 semester.

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United States of America v. Cheryl Lynn Pytleski

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the civil rights of her neighbors.

On October 18, 2019, Pytleski hung racially offensive homemade dolls on the fence of her next-door neighbors, an African American family, in an attempt make the family move away. Pytleski pleaded guilty to a criminal violation of the Fair Housing Act in March of

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United States of America v. Jared Piepkorn

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with for selling wildlife taken in violation of state law, a Lacey Act violation.

Jared Piepkorn, age 47, of Clovis, New Mexico, was charged with one misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act occurring in January 2021 after he agreed to also plead guilty in State District Court to several wildlife related charg

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United States of America v. Vance Franklin Myers

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized excavation and removal of archeological resources from public lands.

Vance Franklin Myers, 35, of Oakhurst, was charged with excavating and removing archeological resources from public land.

Myers entered upon public lands in Madera County that were administered by the United States F

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Chase Toulou v. Chippewa Resources Incorporated

Minot, North Dakota employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory under 29 U.S.C. 206, et seq., which provide:

(a) Employees engaged in commerce; home workers in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands; employees in American Samoa; seamen on American vessels; agricultural employeesEvery employer shall pay to each of his emplo

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United States of America v. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with seditious conspiracy, civil disorder, destruction of government property, assaulting a police officer, etc.

Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, age 39, of Miami, Florida was charged with numerous felonies as a result of his actions in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

“On January 6th, 2021, the United States Capi

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United States of America v. Connie Meggs and William Isaacs

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged for their roles in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Connie Meggs, 60, of Dunnellon, Florida, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release.

William Isaacs, 23, of Kissimmee, Florida, and Sandra, 63, and Bennie Parker, 72, both of Morrow, Ohio, were each s

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United States of America v. Heather Ann Huffman

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud at least five states of more than $3.5 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits.

"Heather A. Huffman organized a massive VEC fraud conspiracy and abused her position as a federal employee to steal funds meant for those struggling with employment security and the economic

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United States of America v. Olugbenge Lawal

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Olugbenga Lawal was a member of a Nigerian-based criminal organization that victimized individuals and businesses across the United States through internet-based fraud schemes, including romance fraud and business email compromises, and laundered the proceeds of those fra

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United States of America v. Maurice Lawson

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with obtaining nearly a half a million dollars by submitting multiple fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) applications.

“Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program to provide emergency financial assistance to millions of Americans suffering the econ

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Leinani Deslandes, et al. v. McDonald's USA, LLC, et al.

Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on an anti-trust theory claiming that Defendant's franchise agreement wrongfully restricted their ability to take higher paying jobs with other franchises.


Until recently, every McDonald's franchise agreement contained an anti-poach clause. Each franchise operator promised not to hire any person employ

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