Massachusetts Internal Revenue Law
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United States of America v. Virak Prum
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Boston, Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant, Virak Prum for Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering
A leader of a Lowell-based gang, One Family Clique (OFC), was sentenced in federal court in Boston for conspiring with fellow OFC gang members to traffic wholesale quantities of coc... More...
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(01-20-2024 - MA)
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United States of America v. Rudolph Ferrucci
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Boston, Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Tax Evasion
The former owner of a beachfront restaurant and bar in Plymouth was sentenced for concealing business income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and paying restaurant employees under the table.
Rudol... More...
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(12-15-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Chengzou Liu
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MBoston, assachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with Money Laundering Ring
In July 2022, Liu was charged along with seven others in connection with elaborate money laundering and money transmitting conspiracies allegedly led by two of Liu’s co-conspirators Qiu Mei Zeng and Shi Rong Zhang.
According to the charging documents, Ze... More...
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(12-31-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Daniel J. Griffin and William W. Robertson
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Worcester, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy, federal programs fraud and wire fraud in connection with an overtime scheme dating back to 2015.
Former Massachusetts State Police (MSP) Lieutenant Daniel J. Griffin, 60, of Belmont and MSP Sergeant William W. Robertson, 61, of Westborough, were each convicted of one count of conspiracy, ... More...
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(12-14-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Fabio Yepes Sanchez
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion conspiracy connected to organized crime in the Republic of Colombia.
Fabio Yepes Sanchez, 57, of Medellín, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of extortion conspiracy, one count of interstate and foreign travel or transpor... More...
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(11-07-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. John Wilson
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with falsely claiming payments he made to secure the admission of his son to the University of Southern California (USC) were deductible from his taxes as a business expense and a charitable contribution.
In October 2021, John Wilson, age 64, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was convicted by a federal jury of on... More...
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(09-29-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Rudolph Ferrucci
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with concealing business income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and paying restaurant employees under the table.
Rudolph Ferrucci, 65, of Plymouth, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of failure to collect and pay over employee taxes. A plea hearing has not yet been sched... More...
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(05-31-2023 - MA)
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Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools
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Boston, Massachusetts civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Americans with Disabilities Act violation theories.
Plaintiff Amy Rae filed suit against Defendants Woburn Public Schools, the City of Woburn, Superintendent Matthew Crowley, and Principal Carl Nelson (collectively, “Defendants”) bringing counts for retaliatory harassment pursuant to the Rehabi... More...
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(05-05-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Tod Erickson
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charge with fraud involving the theft of over $1.4 million in computer equipment.
Tod Erickson, 60, of Londonderry, N.H., served as the information technology manager at a telecommunications company that, until February 2019, had an office located in Chelmsford, Mass. As information technology manager, Erikson was respons... More...
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(05-05-2023 - MA)
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United States of America v. Mario Zapata Velez
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to traffick drugs.
Mario Zapata Velez, 41, of Medellín, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to make extortionate threats, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, collection of credit by extortionate means and conspiracy to distribu... More...
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(04-28-2023 - MA)
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Matheus Plazzi, et al. v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
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Boston, Massachusetts employment law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on Wage and Hour Act violation theories.
Matheus Plazzi, Joshua Prescott, and Tulio Brito Costa ("Plaintiffs") worked as delivery drivers for Eloah Delivery ("Eloah"), a service provider for FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. ("FedEx"). Plaintiffs allege that their supervisor told them he was withholding... More...
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(10-20-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. George Kritopoulos
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for engaging in a decade-long mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen loan transactions, totaling $6.5 million, that resulted in more than $3.8 million in losses to lenders.
George Kritopoulos, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to four years in prison to be followed by two years ... More...
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(10-21-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Ravinder Arora, Jugjeeve Kharbanda, Sukhdev Singh and Jaspal Singh
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Springfield, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to traffic in contraband tobacco and evade taxes.
Ravinder Arora, 60, of East Longmeadow, was sentenced on Oct. 7, 2022 by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to one year probation and restitution to be determined at a later hearing. In August 2015, Arora pleaded guilty to one count of ... 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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United States of America v. George Vasiliades
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with manipulating his payroll to evade over $1.8 million in taxes.
In December 2021, George Vasiliades, 58, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of failure to collect, account for and pay over federal employment taxes; 17 counts of aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns; and one count of making a false stat... More...
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(06-09-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. James P. Enwright
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with income diversion and payroll tax scheme resulting in a tax loss that exceeded $1 million.
James P. Enwright, 53, owned and operated Enwright Construction for over 20 years. From 2013 through 2018, Enwright withheld from his tax preparer over $2.8 million of Enwright Construction’s gross receipts. In addit... More...
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(04-01-2022 - MA)
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United States of America v. Juan Liberato, a/k/a “King Prodigy"
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with racketeering.
Juan Liberato, a/k/a “King Prodigy,” 37, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release. On Oct. 14, 2021, Liberato pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, m... More...
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(03-25-2022 - 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. John Doe
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with six counts: one count of using a fraudulently obtained passport (Count One), two counts of misuse of a social security number (Counts Two and Three), one count of theft of public funds (Count Four), and two counts of aggravated identity theft (Counts Five and Six) charges. 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. 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. Gregory Owens
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with interstate domestic violence and; discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in violation charges. Owens challenges the sufficiency of evidence supporting his convictions, the reasonableness of his sentence, and the district court's denial of
his pretrial motions seekin... More...
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(12-29-2021 - MA)
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MARK GILBERT v. CITY OF CHICOPEE; WILLIAM JEBB; JOHN PRONOVOST; RICHARD J. KOS
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Boston, MA - Constitutional Rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, Appellant with claiming his First Amendment rights were violated.
In sharing this tale, we construe the facts of the
complaint in the light most favorable to Gilbert. Ocasio–Hernández
v. Fortuño–Burset, 640 F.3d 1, 7 (1st Cir. 2011) (citing Fed. R. ... 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. 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. Dr. Charles Lieber
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Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, etc.
The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with lying to federal authorities about his affiliation with People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan Univer... More...
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(12-21-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Carlos Cruz-Rivera
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
three counts of carjacking, and three counts of using or carrying a firearm during a crime of violence charges.
In September 2018, we affirmed Carlos Cruz-Rivera's convictions for three counts of
carjacking, see 18 U.S.C. § 2119, and three counts ... More...
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(11-25-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Melvin Gomera-Rodríguez
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of possessing child pornography charge.
Because Gomera pleaded guilty, "we draw the relevant
facts from the plea agreement, the change-of-plea colloquy, the
undisputed portions of the presentence investigation report
('PSR'), and the... More...
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(11-25-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Moustafa Aboshady
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
healthcare fraud conspiracy charge.
In March 2014, Fathalla Mashali, Aboshady's uncle, was
indicted and, in 2017, he pleaded guilty in the United States
District Court for the District of Massachusetts to a multimillion-dollar healthcare fr... More...
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(11-25-2021 - MA)
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United States of America, e4x rel Banigan & Templin v. PHARMERICA, INC.
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Boston, MA - False Claims Act lawyer represented defendant charged with defending PharMerica, Inc of defrauded the government claim.
"The FCA prohibits the knowing submission of false or
fraudulent claims to the United States." United States ex rel.
Poteet v. Bahler Med., Inc., 619 F.3d 104, 107 (1st Cir. 2010)... More...
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(11-23-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Jorge Hiram Báez-Martínez
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession of a firearm charge.
In 2012, Báez-Martínez was convicted at a jury trial for
being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 922(g)(1). The unobjected-to Presentence Investigation Report
("PSR") included the... More...
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(11-23-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. Dr. Harold Altvater
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Boston, MA - Securities Fraud lawyer represented defendant with three counts of securities fraud for insider trading charges.
Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ariad") is a small
Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company whose shares are traded on
the NASDAQ exchange. Altvater's then-wife, Maureen Curran, joined
... More...
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(11-23-2021 - 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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CVS Pharmacy, Inc. v. Lavin
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Boston, MA - Employment lawyer represented defendant with Restrictive Covenant Agreement case.
CVS operates CVS Caremark, one of the country's largest
pharmacy benefit managers ("PBMs"). PBMs sell prescriptionmanagement services to entities providing prescription-drug
coverage to their members. These entities ... More...
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(11-23-2021 - MA)
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