Illinois Fraud Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Antonio Ross </h2> <center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represeted the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343. Antonio Ross and others paid kickbacsk to the former Evanston/Skokie School District 65, Superintendent. The Defendant admitted that he paid kickbacks to District 65’s then-Superintendent, DEVON HORTON, in exchange for Horton’s efforts to steer District 65 contrac... More...
$ (10-17-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Shenghan Jin </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349. Shenghan Jin, age 27, a Chinese national, who should have been gone in 2022 was still here in 2025, abused our immigration system and helping fleece a Belleville man of his life savings. The victim is estimated to have lost approximately $2.5 million through c... More...
$ (10-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Dorothy Barber </h2> </center>
Moline, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343.1. Dorothy Barber, age 54, of Texas City, Texas, along with others, recruited and assisted other individuals to fraudulently apply for Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were supposed to be used for certain qualifying bus... More...
$ (10-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Darren Carlyle Sadler </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343.\ Darren Carlyle Sadler, age 40, of Sacramento, California, participated in a scheme to fraudulently obtain loans pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), which was created by the CARES Act to provide financial relief for small businesses during the Covid-19 ... More...
$ (10-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Carissa Jordan </h2> <center>
Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343. Carrisa Jordan, age 48, used the personal identifying information of various individuals to submit false Pandemic Unemployment Assistance applications. Jordan had obtained the personal identifying information through social media, with and without the individuals’ k... More...
$ (10-09-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. David K. Elliott </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged wtth back and wire fraud. David K. Elliott, 41, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 18, 2026. The indictment alleges that Elliott was a lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois, with his primary practice in Bethalto, Madison County. In 2016, Elliott was appointed by the Circuit Court of ... More...
$ (09-15-2026 - IL)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Keith Wakefield </h2> <center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 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> Keith Wakefield, age 52, of Chicago, worked as the head of fixed income trading for IFS Securities, Inc., a broker-dealer in Chicago. In 2019, Wakefield knowingly and fra... More...
$ (09-11-2026 - il)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jalal Nimer Asad </h2> </center>
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 and structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements in violation of 31 U.S.C. 5324. Digested 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> Jalal Nimer Asad,... More...
$ (07-27-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Weston Goldstein </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of wire fraud. Digested 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> Weston Goldstein, age 48, was responsible for procuring electronic devices for BTN and its employees. Over approximately eight years, Goldstein used company credit cards... More...
$ (07-22-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Sean Roundeau </h2> </center>
Springfield, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with healthcare fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and five counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1347. 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> Rondeau had submitted more than 2,000 separate fraudulent claims. ... More...
$ (06-17-2026 - IL)<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. 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)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)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...
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