Illinois Bank Fraud Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Titianna Ammons </h2> </center>
Urbana, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with hree counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the U.S. Department of Labor and Illinois Department of Employment Security. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Beginning in January of 2021, Titanna Ammons’s unemp... More...
$ (06-05-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Octavia Renee Murphy </h2> </center>
Springfield, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Octavia Renee Murphy, 37, of the 700 block of Double Jack Street, conspired with others to defraud the SBA by submitting false applications for... More...
$ (05-25-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Dunlap </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Robert Dunlap claimed to operate a cryptocurrency business that sold a purported digital asset called “Meta-1 Coin” through a “Meta-1 Coin Trust.” Dunlap made numerous false and misleading statements to potential and actual investors, including claims that the Meta-1 Coin was backed by as much as $... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Barbara Harris </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Barbara Harris served as the Executive Director of the Center for Community Academic Success Partnerships (CCASP), which received government grants to provide after-school programs to schools in the Chicago area. From 2012 to 2017, Harris schemed with another CCASP executive, TONY BELL, to submit grant ap... More...
$ (04-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tatiana Bazer </h2> <center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud and impersonating and officer or employee of the United States. Tatiana Bazer falsely represented to victims that their money would be used in various ways, including, among things, projects in Ukraine, immigration services, or as loans to Bazer to help resolve her purported arrest for shoplifting, according ... More...
$ (04-01-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. David Quinones
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with raudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). From 2018 to 2023, David Quinones gave cash or other items to SNAP recipients in exchange for access to their Link cards. Quinones used the cards to purchase various goods at authorized retail stores... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Mark A. Pingsterhaus </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and theft of government property. Mark A. Pingsterhaus, age 52, of Carlyle, is accused of using City of Carlyle and Carlyle Fire Protection District funds for unauthorized and personal expenses like travel, entertainment, goods and services. In two examples, the indictment states he used the City... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Keith Griffin </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal contempt and withholding information on a crime. Attorney Keith Griffin, age 54, of Temple City, California, worked for the California personal injury law firm Girardi Keese, which represented relatives of victims who were killed in the 2018 crash in the Java Sea. Girardi Keese filed civil lawsuits in fe... More...
$ (03-06-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Shondra McLarty
Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzling more than $34,000 from a club. Shondra McLarty, age 55, , of Rockton, Ill., admitted in a plea agreement that she embezzled and stole money from the Tumbling and Acro Boosters Club (“TAB”) from 2023 to 2024 while she served as Treasurer. McLarty fraudulently used TAB’s business debit card and frau... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Burhan Mirza and Kashif Iqbal
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with health care fraud and money laundering. In 2023 and 2024, BURHAN MIRZA and KASHIF IQBAL, along with several co-schemers, used nominee-owned laboratories and durable medical equipment providers to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare and private healthcare benefit programs for items and services that were not prov... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Traveon H. Reese
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Traveon H. Reese, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. “This conspiracy victimized numerous hardworking people across central and southern Illinoi... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Annazette Collins
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and false statements and willful failure to file return information. After a career in the Illinois state legislature, Annazette Collins began evading tax liability.... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Edward L. Stief
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of unlawful monetary transactions in criminal derived property. Edward L. Stief, Jr., age 42, met the victim in May 2023 after becoming acquainted with him while offering lawn care and landscaping services. Shortly thereafter, Stief used severa... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - IL)<H2> Dustin Dean Cooper v. Trans Union, L.L.C.
Chicago, Illinois, consumer credit law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Credit Reporting Act theory under 15 U.S.C. 1681. AI Overview The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) protects consumers from inaccurate, unfair, and irrelevant information in their credit reports, safeguarding against identity theft, data breaches, and unfair denial of credit or employment by ensuring th... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Stephen H. Keith
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with perpetrating a wire fraud and identity theft scheme starting as early as August 2020 and continuing to August 2024. Stephen H. Keith, age 35, of East Peoria, Illinois ran a company called DeviceLyfe that was never registered with the State of Illinois. According to the indictment, Keith used that purported company ... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Travis Thomas
Rock Island, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with ne count of sex trafficking by force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) and (b)(1); two counts of transporting a victim in interstate commerce with the intent that she engage in prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a); and two counts of coercing or enticing... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Minhaj Feroz Muhammad and Sufyan Feroze
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private health care insurers and for participating in a money laundering conspiracy with the fraud proceeds. Minhaj Feroz Muhammad, 37, and Sufyan Feroze, 35, both of Naperville, owned and controlled, sometimes through straw owners, four clinical laboratories located in Illinoi... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - il)Julius H. Schoeps, et al. v. Sompo Holdings, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois lawyers represented the parties in a dispute over the ownership of the Van Gogh Sunflowers.<br> <br> Vincent van Gogh painted Sunflowers in 1888. Paul von<br> Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a German banker and art collector,<br> later acquired the painting. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was the<br> co-owner and director of an international bank, Mendelssohn<br> & Co., which was one of the five ... More...
$0 (11-26-2025 - IL)Tanisha Burress v. Western Avenue Nissan, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Racketeering (RICO) Act violation toery.<br> <br> AI Overview<br> <br> The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a federal law enacted in 1970 to combat organized crime. It allows prosecution for a "pattern of racketeering activity" involving at least two related criminal acts, known as "predica... More...
$1 (10-24-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Marol M. Aguiar Rodriguez
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery of property or money.<br> <br> Beginning on a date unknown, but not later than on or about February 10, 2025, and continuing up to on or about February 23, 2025, in the Central District of Illinois, the Defendants, Conspiracy to Commit Bank Larceny. All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 211... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - IL)Anushka Bubey, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security
Chicago, Illinois, immigration lawyers represented the Plaintiffs seeking review of adverse administrative decisions made by HHS.<br> <br> Five citizens of India, who came to the United States as students with F-1 visas, returned home for short periods and sought reentry. Officials at the air- ports where they arrived revoked their visas. The officials ordered expedited removal with respect to fou... More...
$0 (09-26-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Zhao Tai Cui </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Immigration Fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Chicago Man Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Immigration Fraud</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> ... More...
$0 (09-09-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Gregg Smith, Michael Nowalk, and Christopher Jordan
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud.<br> <br> Gregg Smith, Michael Nowak, and Christopher Jordan were precious metals futures traders who manipulated the market through an unlawful practice called œ™˜˜ę—Â, meaning they placed deceptive orders they intended to cancel to push the market price a certain direction.<br> <br> <b... More...
$0 (08-26-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Kenneth Loving, Jr.
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. ... More...
$0 (07-01-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Gary E. Matthews and Monte J. Brannan
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with fraud and money laundering.<br> <br> Gary Matthews and Monte Brannan collaborated on a project to redevelop and revitalize a landmark hotel in Peoria, Illinois. The project was ambitious, complex, and required Matthews and Brannan to arrange financing. But instead of satisfying their obligations to lenders, Matthews ... More...
$0 (07-07-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Dana Curtin
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charge with sex trafficing of children or by force, fraud or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1591.<br> <br> A jury convicted Dana Curtin of attempted sex trafficking of a minor. The government based the charge on text communications between Curtin and a federal agent posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl. The two discussed... More...
$0 (07-07-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Francis Eversman, Gregg Crawford </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East Saint Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with bank fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> <br> Former bank president and contractor plead guilty to federal charge in loan fraud scheme</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i>... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Darren Carlyle Sadler </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with raudulently obtaining more than $14 million in small business loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARESâ€) Act. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> <br> California Businessman Pleads Guilty in Federal Court ... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Mona Ghosh </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Health Care Fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Physician Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A federal jury has convicted a man of trafficking six rifles, in... More...
$0 (06-10-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Awad Odeh </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><br> <b><center></i><b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Charged With Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A suburban Chicago businessman ... More...
$0 (05-22-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Alen Saric </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East Saint Louis, IL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with $1.7 million vehicle sale fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Third defendant sentenced to prison in $1.7 million vehicle sale fraud scheme</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A southern Illinois district judge sente... More...
$0 (05-09-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Miroslaw Krejza </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Embezzling Millions From the Failed Washington Federal Bank </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Real Estate Developer Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison for Embezzling Millions From the Failed Washington Federal Bank in Chicago</h2></... More...
$0 (04-30-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Hassan Abdellatif a/k/a “Eric†</h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Low-Income Food Program for Women and Children </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Owner of Chicago-Area Convenience Stores Convicted of Defrauding Low-Income Food Program for Women and Children </h2></center></b></b> </h2></cen... More...
$0 (04-30-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jose Gregorio Sosa Cardona </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Immigration Fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Indicted on Immigration Fraud Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A suburban Chicago businessman has been indicted on federal fraud cha... More...
$0 (03-11-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Nirav B. Patel </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with ne count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of illegal entry into the U.S. by an alien </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Illegal immigrant convicted as part of India-based fraud conspira... More...
$0 (02-11-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Yale Schiff </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Fraud. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Bank Fraud. </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> YALE SCHIFF fraudulently obtained mortgage loans, vehicle loans,... More...
$0 (01-27-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Yale Schiff </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtained mortgage loans, vehicle loans, lines of credit, and credit cards </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Bank Fraud</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b>... More...
$0 (01-27-2025 - IL)K&V Group, LLP v. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois civil litigation lawyers will be representing United States of America qui tam claim against Walgreen claiming that it filled millions of unlawful prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and then sought reimbursement for many of these prescriptions from various federal health care programs in violation the False Claims Act (FCA). Walgreens is one of the... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - IL)Linda Thompson v. Army and Air Force Exchange Service
East St. Louis, Illinois civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a violation of the<br> Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTAâ€).<br> <br> The Exchange is an instrumentality of the United States<br> Army and Air Force that provides retail services on military<br> bases across the country. Linda Thompson alleges that she<br> used her personal credit card at t... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Lakeatra E. White </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Stealing Credit Cards from the Mail </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Granite City Postal Carrier Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Credit Cards from the Mail </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Lakeatra E. White, 32... More...
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