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(03-10-2023 - MA)
United States of America v. Florence Mwende Musau
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud involving romance scams and pandemic unemployment fraud.
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(01-31-2023 - ma)
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United States of America v. Freeman Celvin, a/k/a "Celvin Freeman"
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New York City, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraud and money laundering conspiracy based in the Republic of Ghana (“Ghana”) involving the theft of millions of dollars.
On March 30, 2022, CELVIN was convicted after a jury trial of all seven counts against him before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who imposed today’s sentence. CELVIN was previo... More...
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(10-20-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Eric Meiggs and Declan Harrington
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Boston, Massachusetts United States Attorney’s Office criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Eric Meiggs, age 24, from Brockton, and Declan Harrington, age 22, from Beverly, targeted executives of cryptocurrency companies and others who likely had significant amounts of cryptocurrenc... More...
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(10-19-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Cory Goldberg
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing meth from his condo in Boston's Back Bay.
In September 2020, Cory Goldberg, 47 pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, two counts of distribution of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 ... More...
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(10-11-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. James Joseph Cohen
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with engaging in scheme to obtain Paycheck Protection Program funds made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by submitting false applications.
James Joseph Cohen, 59, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.
Between April 2020 and September 2021, Cohen submitted s... More...
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(07-28-2022 - MA)
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Daniel J. LePorin v. Greg S. Parzych, et al.
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Boston, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory
claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident.
This action arose from a boating accident on Lake Sunapee in which plaintiff Daniel LePorin (“LePorin” or “plaintiff”) suffered significant injuries, inc... More...
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(06-22-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Melissa Paradise
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with stealing hydrocodone, an opioid and Schedule II controlled substance, from the veterinary office where she worked.
Melissa Paradise, 43, pleaded guilty to six counts of acquiring a controlled substance using a registration number assigned to another person and eight counts of acquiring a controlled substan... More...
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(06-17-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Haoyang Yu
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with possessing a stolen trade secret, the first-ever conviction following a criminal trial of this kind in the District of Massachusetts.
Haoyang Yu, 43, was convicted following a month-long jury trial of possessing the prototype design of a microchip, known as the HMC1022A, which was owned and developed... More...
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(05-29-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Hector Minaya Melo, a/k/a “El Jefe”
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl.
Hector Minaya Melo, a/k/a “El Jefe,” 35, was pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and two counts of distribution of 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
From 2019 throug... More...
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(05-19-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Hassan Abbas
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and unlawful monetary transactions in conjunction with the operation of a romance scheme.
Hassan A. Abbas, 64, of Belgium, was convicted following a six-day jury trial of one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of money launderin... More...
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(05-17-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Binh Thanh
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug trafficking.
Binh Thanh Le, 25, of Brockton, was the leader and organizer of a highly sophisticated drug trafficking operation that manufactured and distributed a multitude of controlled substances using the Dark Web. This sentence marks the first judicial forfeiture of cryptocurrency in the District of ... More...
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(03-11-2022 - MA)
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Union of Concerned Scientists v. Environmental Protection Agency
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Boston, MA - Federal Advisory Committee Act lawyer represented Plaintiffs, Appellants with arguing that a directive issued by the EPA that prohibits EPA grant recipients -- who are mostly employed by universities and other nonprofit institutions -- from sitting on the EPA's twenty-two scientific advisory committees. ... More...
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(01-22-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. José Reyes-Valdivia
United States of America v. Jeffri Dávila-Reyes
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with two counts of trafficking cocaine in violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act charges.
These consolidated appeals arise
from the U.S. Coast Guard's interdiction of a small speed boat in
the western Caribbean Sea and the ... More...
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(01-22-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Carlos Reyes, Jr.
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, and one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine charges.
I. Background ... More...
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(01-21-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Saieed Jean Texeira-Nieves
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing the district court's denial of his motion for compassionate release.
We briefly rehearse the relevant facts and travel of the
case. In 2018, Puerto Rico police arrested the defendant during
a traffic stop. He was dri... More...
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(01-21-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Joseph Clark
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Boston, Massachusetts – Criminal Defense lawyer represented
defendant with one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance charge.
On July 20, 2015, McGoon, a Saco Police Department
officer, stopped a vehicle for erratic driving and for running a
red light. At the time of the stop, McGoo... More...
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(01-20-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Carey Ackies a/k/a Boyd
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base charges. His appeal challenges: denials of motions to suppress two warrants obtained by law enforcement and evidence obtained from his warrantless arrest, evidence rulings at his trial, and his sentence.... More...
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(12-30-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. David Santiago-Colón
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with attempted first-degree murder, carrying and using a firearm without a license, and discharging or pointing a firearm charges.000
A. Factual Background
On January 13, 2013, Puerto Rico Police Department Agent
Carlos Sepúlve... More...
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(12-29-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Adrián Vázquez-Méndez
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine charge.
Adrián Vázquez-Méndez ("Vázquez")
pled guilty in federal district court in Puerto Rico in 2001 to
one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846,
and was sentenced to 168 mo... More...
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(12-29-2021 - MA)
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Heather Tyler v. Supreme Judicial Court of MA
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with trying to void two Massachusetts Superior Court conditions of probation.
In 2009, at age nineteen or twenty, Jamie Melendez
impregnated fourteen-year-old Heather Tyler.2 Tyler gave birth in
2010. Upon pleading guilty in state court to the statutory rape More...
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(12-29-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Josue Marrero-Pérez
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of possessing a firearm while prohibited from doing so because of a prior felony conviction charge.
Without a plea bargain, Marrero pled guilty to both
charges. The final presentence investigation report ("PSR")
recommended that the guidelines r... More...
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(12-28-2021 - MA)
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSÉ G. MARTÍNEZ-BENÍTEZ
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing a firearm despite his status as a felon charge.
How Martínez's Case Got Here
Martínez pled guilty in federal court to possessing
firearm despite his status as a felon. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
His was a... More...
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(12-28-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Glenn Chin
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with committing mail fraud and violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") charge.
WBUR filed this motion in the criminal case against New
England Compounding Center ("NECC") supervisory pharmacist Glenn
Chin. He had been charged w... More...
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(12-28-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Angel Rafael Contreras-Delgado
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a machine gun charge.
Because this appeal follows a guilty plea, we draw the
facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the undisputed portions of
the PSR, and the transcript of the sentencing hearing. United
States v. Arias-Mercedes, 901 F.... More...
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(12-27-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Aletsys Calderón-Lozano
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to launder monetary instruments charge. He now challenges the procedural and substantive reasonableness of his sentence
Between February 25 and 26, 2016, Calderón-Lozano and an
undercover Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) agent arranged... More...
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(12-27-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of drug trafficking in international waters while aboard a "stateless" vessel in violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act charge. He now challenges those convictions.
Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa ("Aybar")
pleaded guilty in 2015 to two counts of ... More...
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(12-27-2021 - MA)
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Stephen Saccoccia v. United States of America
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a money-laundering charge. He was ordered to forfeit over $136,000,000 in proceeds from the conspiracy. He appeals the district court's dismissal of his 2018 complaint seeking vacatur of the forfeiture order and return of his forfeited property.
We draw the... More...
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(11-25-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Nera James a/k/a King
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of possession with intent to distribute furanyl fentanyl.
In late 2016, officers affiliated with the Maine Drug
Enforcement Agency and the Auburn and Lewiston Police Departments
began receiving information that a man, nicknamed "King," w... More...
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(11-25-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. HÉCTOR GARCÍA-CARTAGENA, a/k/a/ Arana
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing drugs with intent to distribute and domestic abuse charge.se
Let's start with the basics. To recommend sentences for
supervised release violators, the United States Sentencing
Guidelines rank new crimes with letter grades (A, B, and C). ... More...
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(11-23-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Anthony Colón-Maldonado
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aggravated domestic abuse.
In early 2017, Anthony ColónMaldonado completed his sentence for federal drug crimes and began
his six-year term of supervised release. Just six months later,
a police complaint charged him on "information and belief" w... More...
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(11-23-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Bryan Larson
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography.
On June 11, 2015, a magistrate judge issued a warrant to
search a residence at 11 Manchaug Street, in Douglas,
Massachusetts. The warrant was based on an affidavit sworn by
Homeland Security Investigat... More...
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(11-22-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Alfredo Gonzalez
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug-trafficking.
We start by rehearsing the travel of the case. On
October 5, 2016, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of
New Hampshire indicted the appellant, along with fifteen codefendants, on a charge of conspiracy to distr... More...
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(11-22-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. LUCIANO VEGA-MARTÍNEZ, aka Lucio; RENÉ GARAY-RODRÍGUEZ, aka
Gary
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with charged with mail fraud and violations of section 1 of the Sherman Act.
In 2013, Vega-Martínez, Garay-Rodríguez, and their codefendants owned competing bus companies that sought to provide
busing for low-income students from Caguas to public schools... More...
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(11-22-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Kevin Rafael Granados-Ortiz
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
Kevin Rafael Granados-Ortiz pled
guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to
distribute cocaine and was sentenced to 121 months in prison. On
appeal,... More...
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(11-22-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Ilir Bregu
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute oxycodone.
When evaluating the denial of a motion to suppress, we
present the facts as supportably found by the district court. See,
e.g., United States v. Pontoo, 666 F.3d 20, 24 (1... More...
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(11-22-2021 - MA)
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