| United States of America v. Michael W. Honaker |
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Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and Theft of Government Property. Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $ (12-19-2025 - OH) |
| United States of America v. Michael W. Honaker |
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Akron, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Michael W. Honaker, 55, of Windham, Ohio, was sentenced to 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David A. Ruiz, after he pleaded guilty in December 2024 to wire fraud and theft of government property. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $ (12-19-2025 - OK) |
| United States of America v. David Mitsnefes |
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Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child exploitation and pornography crimes for allegedly hiding spy cameras in the house of minor victims. Between 2021 and 2025, on multiple occasions the family of teenaged victims found hidden cameras in the minors’ bedrooms. David Mitsnefes, age 32, allegedly used wifi to save videos of the minor occupants in $ (12-18-2025 - OH) |
| United States of America v. Nathaniel Covington |
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Louisville, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r online coercion and enticement of a minor, sexual exploitation of a child, and transportation of a minor for sex. Nathaniel Covington, 25, used an online social media application to meet a fourteen-year-old girl. He arranged to have the girl taken from Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky for a sexual encounter $ (12-22-2025 - KY) |
| United States of America v. Courtney Sterling |
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Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(A), Possession of a Firearm as an Illegal Alien, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5), and Aggravated Re-entry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). In November of 2022, the John $ (12-19-2025 - TN) |
| United States of America v. Jaivon Davon Taylor, Jadin Winfield, Dennis James Swint, and Nicolas BeltreTaylor |
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Jackson, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy scheme. Jaivon Davon Taylor, Jadin Winfield, Dennis James Swint, and Nicolas Beltre, all residents of New York state, conspired with each other to use false passports in a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from banks in the Jackson, Mississippi area. These defendants $ (12-25-2025 - MS) |
| United States of America v. Leessa Augustine |
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New Orleans, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud schemes while employed as a Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans (“S&WB”) Senior Special Agent, a position that tasked her with investigating the alleged misconduct of other Sewerage & Water Board employees. LEESA AUGUSTINE sentence was imposed on her guilty pleas to three counts of Wire Fraud and $ (12-22-2025 - LA) |
| United States of America v. Dennis Loyd Sizemore and Gregory Brazell |
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to transport a stolen motor vehicle; altering, removing and obliterating a vehicle identification number; possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices; and conspiracy to sell or dispose of a firearm and the transfer of a firearm to a prior convicted felon. Between October 2021 and Marc $ (12-19-2025 - LA) |
| United States of America v. Alfonso Avellaneda Chavarrieta |
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Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with importing and trafficking methamphetamine. Alfonso Avellaneda Chavarrieta, 25, drove into the Eagle Pass Port of Entry on Nov. 17, 2021, and was referred to secondary inspection, where a canine alerted U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to 64 bundles of methamphetamine in the vehicle’s rear tires. The meth $ (12-17-2025 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Hernando Manuel De La Cruz Rivera Orjuela, also known as Hernan, also known as Manuel, also known as El Patron, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, aka El Calvo |
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El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit human smuggling. In October 2024, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas returned an indictment against Hernando Manuel De La Cruz Rivera Orjuela, also known as Hernan, also known as Manuel, also known as El Patron, 53, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, aka El Calvo, 41, of Colombia for $ (12-24-2025 - TX) |
| United States of America v. Christian Wolfe Daniels |
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Greensboro, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with threatening the President and communicating threats using a means of interstate communication. The criminal complaint against Christian Wolfe DANIELS alleges two counts of making threats against the President on November 13 and 14, 2025, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 871(a), and on $ (12-18-2025 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Yolanda Baker |
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Wilmington, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Yolanda Baker, age 51, defauded the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security (NCDES) by submitting false pandemic unemployment benefits (UI) applications intended for more than $365,000 in federal benefits. From in or about May 2020 to June 2021, Yolanda Baker carr $ (12-23-2025 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Carlos Aquino Sosa, Edwin Palacios Sosa, and Delvin Velasquez Romero |
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Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants with participating in an an expansive bank fraud conspiracy resulting in significant losses to small businesses and community banks in more than a dozen states. Carlos Aquino Sosa, 26 years old, of Honduras, was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by 1 year of supervised release after pleading guilty to two counts of $ (12-17-2025 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Jeremy Pauley |
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Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property (Human Remains). Jeremy Pauley, age 43, of Thompson, Pennsylvania, admitted to his role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary. Pauley purchased human $ (12-22-2025 - PA) |
| United States of America v. Jay Lucas |
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New York, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The charges in the Indictment arise from an alleged scheme by LUCAS to raise more than $50 million from investors by falsely representing that their money would be invested in early-stage health and wellness companies, when in fact it was $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Gilberto Alarcon-Holguin a/k/a Beto |
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Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. On October 14, 2017, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized 10 kilograms of cocaine from an identified co-conspirator. HSI obtained a phone number as a point of $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Anthony Burris |
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Buffalo, New York,criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of enticing travel to engage in sexual activity, was sentenced to serve 90 months in prison. Between January and March 11, 2021, Anthony Burris, 35, of Ellicottville, NY, coerced Victim 1, a woman suffering from drug addiction, to perform commercial sex acts. He did so by threatening the use of physica $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Billon McLeod |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child, attempted sexual exploitation of a child, and coercion and enticement of minors. “The defendant is a serial predator whose playbook of using social media to meet vulnerable minor girls, and then groom and exploit them for his own sexual gratification, is a parent’s nightmare, $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Edenilson Velasquez Larin, also known as “Agresor,” Saturno,” “Tiny,” and “Paco,”; Hugo Diaz Amaya, also known as “21”; Fulton Locos Salvatruchas (Fulton) clique leader Jose Espinoza Sanchez, also known as “Cable,” “Bleca,” and “Fantasma”; and Fulton member Jose Arevalao Iraheta, also known as “Splinter,” “Inesperado,” and “Daniel.” |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal machete attack of 18-year-old Kenny Reyes, continuing criminal enterprise, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal shooting of 2 $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| United States of America v. Isaiah Johnson |
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Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawfully purchasing a semi-automatic pistol for an unlicensed individual. In February 2024, Isaiah Johnson, 24, of Merrimack, N.H., purchased a tan-colored 9-millimeter Glock 19X semi-automatic pistol from a gun store in New Hampshire, for a co-conspirator who was ineligible for a gun license. Johnson ultima $ (12-19-2025 - MA) |
| United States of America v. John O’Brien |
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Providence, Rhode Island, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with in a scheme to defraud homeowners in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, said Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom. John O’Brien, 28, pleaded guilty on December 10,2025, to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. O’Brien will be sentenced on March 11, 2026. The sentence imposed will be det $ (12-19-2025 - RI) |
| United States of America v. Eric Ericson |
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Bangor, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statements on a passport application. Eric Ericson, age 73, applied for a U.S. passport at a U.S. Post Office in Bangor on March 24, 2023. When asked about any other names he had used, Ericson failed to disclose his multiple aliases on his passport application. Ericson also falsely reported that he had ne $ (12-19-2025 - ME) |
| United States of America v. Carlos Nonoal-Cano |
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Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of illegal aliens. On December 16, 2025, agents from U.S. Border Patrol received a notification of border crossing on the Vermont-Canada border and received an image of individuals crossing the snow-covered border on foot taken that evening. When Border Patrol agents conducted a search of the rem $ (12-19-2025 - VT) |
| United States of America v. Shawn Patrick Douglas |
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Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. Shawn Patrick Douglas, age 41, of Newton, Alabama, was previously convicted in 2013 for possession of child sexual abuse material and received a 78-month federal prison sentence. After completing that sentence, Douglas was placed on supervised release for the remainde $ (12-19-2025 - AL) |
| United States of America v. Dantavious Jackson |
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Augusta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. On December 15, 2025, a truckdriver who operated a “ghost” tax preparation business on the side was sentenced to federal prison for making claims for refunds of false COVID-19 related employment tax credits. Dantavious Jackson, 39, Union City, Georgia, owned and operated a trucking business in Union Ci $ (12-19-2025 - GA) |
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