Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud.

Carl R. Ruderman, 82, former chairman of 1 Global Capital LLC (“1 Globalâ€�) pled guilty to a $250 million securities fraud scheme. Four of Ruderman’s co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty for their role in this fraud, including two lawyers who provided him with false legal cover to s... More...    $0 (10-13-2023 - FL)

West Palm Beach, Florida bankruptcy lawyers represented appellant appealing an adverse ruling by the Southern District of Florida United States Bankruptcy Court.... More...    $0 (09-12-2023 - FL)

Panama City, Florida qui tam lawyer represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act (“FCA�) by knowingly providing false information in support of multiple Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP�) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (“EIDL�) loans

Real Estate Broker Chad Wade, 41, of Panama City, Florida, along with his companies Ideal Property Holdings, LLC; ... More...    $0 (08-21-2023 - FL)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

WILLFUL RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION/18:793
(1-31)

(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, go... More...    $0 (06-08-2023 - FL)

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)

Fort Myers, Florida bankruptcy law lawyers represented parties Frank Meak, Te Rock Custom Homes, Inc. and The Bay Club of Naples, II, LLC who appealed a decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida.... More...    $0 (03-25-2021 - FL)

Miami, Florida health and wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, five counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and eleven counts of money laundering.

Sebastian Ahmed, 42, of Delray Beach, Florida, was charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, five co... More...    $0 (11-11-2020 - FL)

Miami, Florida white collar criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, five counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and eleven counts of money laundering.

Sebastian Ahmed, 42, of Delray Beach, Florida, was charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, five counts of h... More...    $0 (10-31-2020 - FL)

Ft. Lauderdale, FL - The United States of America charged Steven Allen Schwartz with securities fraud.

a former consultant who also served as the Chief Operating Officer of 1 Global Capital, LLC pled guilty for his role in connection with a $287 million securities fraud scheme involving a commercial payday loan business that operated from early 2014 through July 2018 and impacted more th... More...    $0 (01-11-2020 - FL)

In this case, Cecil and Patricia Daughtrey filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition for the sole purpose of preventing the sale of their property in a public auction to be held pursuant to a state court judgment that foreclosed the mortgage on the property. After the public auction was automatically stayed under 11 U.S.C. § 362(a), the trustee of the bankruptcy estate and the judgment creditor, 72 Pa... More...    $0 (07-31-2018 - FL)

Christina Felts appeals from an order granting summary judgment in favor of her mortgage servicer, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”), with respect to Felts’ claim that Wells Fargo failed to conduct a reasonable investigation into the accuracy of its credit reporting of her mortgage loan, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“the FCRA” or “the Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. The dist... More...    $0 (06-27-2018 - FL)

On February 6, 2001, Gus Boulis, a successful businessman, left his office in Broward County around 9 p.m. As he was heading south on Miami Road, a car stopped in front of him. Boulis stopped his vehicle, and another car pulled in behind Boulis so that he was boxed in. An innocent bystander was in a third car that stopped behind the first two cars. A red Jetta pulled up behind the bystander’s ... More...    $0 (06-11-2018 - FL)

In January 2011, Richard Wiederhold swerved into the median to avoid a vehicle
that had pulled out in front of him. His vehicle drifted through the median and back across
the roadway, flipped over once or twice, and came to rest in a ditch. The collision
immediately rendered him a quadriplegic. The other vehicle was driven by Jeffrey Kidd,
who was delivering pizza for Domino... More...    $0 (05-15-2018 - FL)

This case arises under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which, among other things, amended federal law to impose new requirements and prohibitions on professionals who assist with the preparation of bankruptcy petitions. The provision specifically at issue here, 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(4), provides in relevant part that a “debt relief agency”—including a law firm tha... More...    $0 (03-30-2018 - FL)

Alfredo Castaneda-Pozo appeals from his sentence of 63 months’
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imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release, along with $429,044.96 in restitution, after he was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349, and ten counts of bank fraud, in violation of... More...    $0 (12-22-2017 - FL)

This case has a complex procedural history lasting more than a decade and spanning several state and federal venues. It began when the estates of several deceased nursing-home patients (the “Estates” or “Appellants”) brought a series of wrongful-death suits against a network of nursing homes. These suits collectively resulted in $1 billion in empty-chair judgments against the network. In an effort... More...    $0 (10-21-2017 - FL)

Tampa, FL - Developer Pleads Guilty To Embezzling From A Bankruptcy Estate

Clark D. East (59, Sugarland, TX) has pleaded guilty to embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.

According to the plea agreement, East obtained a loan from Stearns Bank, a member bank of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Minneapolis, to develop a proper... More...    $0 (04-06-2017 - FL)

King was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of Denise Amber Lee.
King v. State, 89 So. 3d 209, 212 (Fla. 2012). This Court detailed the facts of the
murder and subsequent trial in King’s initial appeal:
[O]n January 17, 2008, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Nathan Lee returned to his home on Latour Avenue in North Port, Florida, to find his wife, Denise Amber Lee, missing. The do... More...    $0 (01-27-2017 - FL)

On September 26, 2008, Anderson was the victim of an armed robbery, carjacking, and shooting that occurred in the parking lot of an Embassy Suites hotel in Orlando. Anderson filed an action against Respondents Hilton Hotels
Corporation (Hilton), W2007 Equity Inns Realty, LLC (W2007), Interstate Management Company, LLC (Interstate), and SecurAmerica, LLC for negligence. Hilton was the pa... More...    $0 (11-07-2016 - FL)

In 1991, National Car Rental advised law enforcement that Lawrence
Suttles, Jr. had failed to timely return a rental car. Two years later, National filed
1 Section 768.79, of the Florida Statutes (2014), as pertinent here, provides:
(2) . . . An offer must:
. . . .
(b) Name the party making it and the party to whom it is being made.
2 Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.4... More...    $0 (05-02-2016 - FL)

Tampa, FL - Realtor Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding Vacationers Out Of More Than $200,000

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Michael Carleton (53, Bradenton) to 21 months in federal prison for mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $200,000, which constitutes the proceeds of the mail fraud. In addition, the Court ente... More...    $0 (04-01-2016 - FL)

This appeal has a complicated background, involving multiple lawsuits in
federal district courts, Florida state court, and a Spanish bankruptcy court. The
common denominator of these suits is Quail Cruises Ship Management (“Quail”),
from which multiple parties, including participants in this appeal, have tried to
collect money that they believe Quail owes them.
contract w... More...    $0 (10-12-2015 - FL)

This appeal concerns an attachment of property made pursuant to Supplemental Admiralty Rule B. The money at issue arose from the legal settlement of a dispute over the purchase of a cruise ship featured on ABC Television Network’s long-running series, The Love Boat. The plaintiff below, and appellant here, has advanced a novel interpretation of Rule B. The district court was unpersuaded, as are we... More...    $0 (09-30-2015 - FL)

The defendants in this case—George Cavallo, his wife Paula Hornberger,
and Joel Streinz—were players in one of the most long-lasting mortgage fraud
conspiracies in the history of central Florida. From approximately October 1997
through March 2008, these three defendants, along with about a dozen other
people, conspired to solicit and assist friends, family members, and business... More...    $0 (06-22-2015 - FL)

This is an appeal of a federal income tax refund suit filed by the Estate of
George Batchelor (“Estate�).
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Counts I and II of the Estate’s three-count
Complaint involve Batchelor’s personal income taxes for 1999 and 2000. Count
III concerns the Estate’s attempt to claim a credit for its 2005 income taxes for
payments it made in settlement of various lawsuits aga... More...    $0 (06-05-2015 - FL)

This is an appeal from a district court order affirming a bankruptcy court’s disallowance of an exemption claimed by Michael and Kristie Valone in their Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition. The Chapter 13 trustee, Jon Waage, objected to their personal property exemption, arguing that, as homeowners filing under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Valones were ineligible for the exemption. The bank... More...    $0 (04-29-2015 - FL)

Miami, FL - A Palm Beach County couple was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp in West Palm Beach for their participation in a bankruptcy fraud scheme.

Husband and wife Dr. Richard S. Krugman, 61, and Tamara B. Giordano, 54, each previously pled guilty to one count of bankruptcy fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 152. Krugman and Giordano ... More...    $0 (04-23-2015 - FL)

Richard Hess, Meredith Hess, and Lucre, Inc. (collectively the Hesses),
appeal the trial court's order that grants John T. Patrick's motion to quash a writ of
execution and quashes the writ with prejudice. The Hesses obtained an Arizona federal
judgment awarding them a total of $1,600,000. They registered the judgment in Florida
under sections 55.501-.509, Florida Statutes (2012), ... More...    $0 (04-01-2015 - FL)

Scott P. Russell, as Property Appraiser of Monroe County, Florida, appeals a
judgment holding that certain properties were not subject to ad valorem taxes for
the years 2008 through 2013. The properties are five military housing complexes
serving the Naval Air Station at Key West. The housing complexes are being
improved and operated pursuant to a public-private partnership between... More...    $0 (03-11-2015 - FL)

Appellant challenges the trial court’s dismissal, on grounds of comity and the principle of priority, of his action collaterally attacking a domesticated foreign judgment. The court determined that these proceedings arose out of a New Jersey divorce, and taking jurisdiction would interfere with New Jersey’s exercise of jurisdiction. We affirm.
In 1997 and 1999, the appellee/former wife ins... More...    $0 (02-11-2015 - FL)

Robert and Darlene Curtis sued Tower Hill Prime Insurance Co. in a
dispute over a sinkhole insurance claim. They appeal a final summary judgment in
favor of Tower Hill. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
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The Curtises owned a home that was insured under a policy issued by
Tower Hill.1 During the policy term, the Curtises made a claim for damage under the
po... More...    $0 (01-14-2015 - FL)

Miami, FL - Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Dave Aronberg, State Attorney, Office of the State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Karen Citizen-Wilcox, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (USDA-OIG), Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), ... More...    $0 (07-24-2014 - FL)