Illinois False Pretense Law
<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. Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a police officer and misprision of a felony. On Oct. 3, 2025, Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, Ill., joined a caravan of vehicles that was following a vehicle driven by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Gonzalez Alvarez drove his Ford pickup truck into t... More...
$ (04-16-2026 - 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)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)United States of America v. Derwin Vazquez, Jr.
Rockford, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by making false statements to purchase seven firearms. From 2020 to 2023, DERWIN VAZQUEZ, JR. conspired with his sister—JALISSA R. VAZQUEZ—to make false or fictious written statements to three licensed firearms dealers in connection with the acquisition or attempted acq... More...
$ (02-07-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Edmund Singleton
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with motor vehicle theft carjacking. EDMUND SINGLETON and two co-defendants conspired to commit the carjackings on a single night in November 2022. In the first carjacking, Singleton drove the trio in a stolen car to a gas station in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, where the co-defendants violently took an Infin... 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. 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. James A. Cohen
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with accepting payments in exchange for falsely representing that a registered sex of- fender lived at his address. After he was charged for making that representation to United States marshals, Cohen pleaded guilty to knowingly and willfully making a materially false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the U... More...
$0 (11-24-2025 - 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)<h1> United States of America v. Michael McClain </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Consultant Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring To Falsify Records and Evade Internal Controls at Commonwealth Edison as Part of Scheme To Bribe Former Illinois House Speaker Michae... More...
$0 (07-24-2025 - IL)Michael Mogan v. Portfolio Media, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois pro se lawyer sued the Defendant on defamation and false light theories.<br> <br> Michael Mogan appeals the district court's dismissal of his suit against Portfolio Media, the owner of<br> Law360, for defamation and false light. <br> <br> Mogan, who is an attorney, sued Airbnb in California state court on behalf of a client named Veronica McCluskey in 2018. See Mogan v. Sacks, Ri... More...
$0 (07-16-2025 - 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)Jesus Zambrano v. City of Joliet and Patrick Schumacher
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theory.<br> <br> Jesus Zambrano was convicted of<br> first-degree murder in an Illinois state court in August 2013,<br> but on appeal the Illinois Appellate Court agreed that the trial<br> court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on accomplice<br> liability. A second trial ensued in which... More...
$0 (06-27-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jessica Barrera </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Straw Purchasing Firearms </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Rockford Woman Sentenced to Nearly Three Years in Prison for Straw Purchasing Firearms</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A Rockford woman has been sentenced to thirty-two m... More...
$0 (06-11-2025 - 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. Gretchen Alvarez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Rockford Woman Pleads Guilty to Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Rockford woman pleaded gu... More...
$0 (05-21-2025 - 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. 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)<h1> United States of America v. Phillip M. Jensen </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing fentanyl from his patients, injecting them with adulterated drugs, and performing surgery without proper pain management. Jenson also was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Dentist Sentenced to 15 Ye... More...
$0 (12-20-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Phillip M. Jensen </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Stealing Drugs from Patients and Performing Surgery Without Proper Pain Management </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Dentist Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Stealing Drugs from Patients and Performing Surgery Without Proper Pain Mana... More...
$0 (12-20-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Marek Matczuk </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with participating in a conspiracy that embezzled millions of dollars from the failed Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Chicago </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Real Estate Developer Sentenced to Nearly 13 Years in Prison for Embezzling Mil... More...
$0 (12-17-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Brian Johnson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sex Trafficking, Possession of Child Pornography, and Escaping From Custody </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking, Possession of Child Pornography, and Escaping From Custody... More...
$0 (12-05-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Brett Michael Bartlett </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Urbana, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering amd.Defrauding Central Illinois Investors </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> California Man Sentenced to 15 Years and 8 Months in Prison for Defrauding Central Illinois Investors</h2... More...
$0 (11-27-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Anthony Emeka Ibekie; Samuel Aniukwu </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Conducting Online Inheritance and Romance Scams </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Chicago-Area Residents Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conducting Online Inheritance and Romance Scams</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <b... More...
$0 (11-22-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Tanya M. Aboseada </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 12 counts of wire fraud </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Florida Woman Sentenced to Prison for Financially Exploiting Her Grandmother</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A southern Illinois judge sentenced a Florida wo... More...
$0 (10-23-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Louis R. Ross, Sr. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> ALDI Executive and Southern Illinois Contractor Sentenced for Rigging Construction Project Bids, Ordered to P... More...
$0 (10-22-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Tanya M. Aboseada </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Benton, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 12 counts of wire fraud </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Florida Woman Sentenced to Prison for Financially Exploiting Her Grandmother</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Tanya M. Aboseada, 39, of Pompano Beach, Florida, pleaded... More...
$0 (09-23-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Aaron Gillison </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraud Related to Central Illinois Home Building Business </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Tuscola Contractor Sentenced for Fraud Related to Central Illinois Home Building Business</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A ... More...
$0 (09-17-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. DeAyre M. Jones </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Making Bomb Threat to Scott Air Force Base </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Sentenced to Prison for Making Bomb Threat to Scott Air Force Base</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A district judge in southern Il... More...
$0 (09-13-2024 - IL)<H2> Brian J. Schell v. Eric Schellhardt
<h2><br> East St. Louis, Illinois civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> At the time the events in this case began, Schell was employed by the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOCâ€) in a position that required him to possess an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification ("FOIDâ€) card.<br> <br> In the fall of 2018, Schell and his wife Sandra Schell were gett... More...
$0 (01-23-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jeremiah Johnson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to report the money on his individual tax returns. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Suburban Chicago Businessman Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Underreporting $1.47 Million in Taxes</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Robert M. Kowalski </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Embezzlement and Fraud Charges </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Attorney Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison on Embezzlement and Fraud Charges in Connection With Collapse of Washington Federal Bank</h2></center></b></b> </h... More...
$0 (08-14-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Erik Richard Jones; Mitchell Allen Melega </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, and Money Laundering </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Illinois Men Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, and Money Laundering</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center... More...
$0 (07-25-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Gerald Duran </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Oklahoma Man Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Committing Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft in Springfield, Illinois </h2></center></b></b> </h2>... More...
$0 (07-19-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Gerald Duran </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Oklahoma Man Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Committing Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft in Springfield, Illinois</h2></center></b></b> </h2></... More...
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