Massachusetts Joint Tenancy Law
<h1> United States of America v. Bill Dessaps </h1></h1>
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering, and one count of bank fraud<br> <br> An Easton man was convicted today, following an eight-day trial of using Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds to secretly purchase a home in the name of a close relative.... More...
$0 (09-19-2025 - MA)Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Timothy Formel </centerr>
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape.<br> <br> MoreLaw was created to help people find experienced lawyers to represent them in the more than 3,144 counties across the United States. Click the link above to see a list of lawyers ready and willing to represent you if you have a legal problem and need help. Call: 918-582-6422 for help.<br> <b... More...
$0 (05-09-2025 - MA)<h1> United States of America v. Jason Duhaime </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Staging a Hoax Explosion and Making False Statements </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Northeastern University Employee Sentenced for Staging a Hoax Explosion and Making False Statements</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><b... More...
$0 (01-14-2025 - MA)<h1> United States of America v. ASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Allegedly Paying Kickbacks to Retina Practices </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> ASD Specialty Healthcare (D/B/A Besse Medical) Agrees To Pay $1.67 Million for Allegedly Paying Kickbacks to Retina Practices</h2></center></b></b> </h2><... More...
$0 (12-13-2024 - MA)Paul Chelser v. Victoria Ivanova
Boston, Massachusetts family law lawyers represented the Plaintiff and the Defendant in a child custody dispute.<br> <br> <br> After a brief relationship between the parties, the child was born in 2010. The father obtained adjudication of his paternity in 2011. The trial judge found the parties' difficulty in communicating created a risk that, if the mother were granted sole legal custody, she wou... More...
$0 (11-18-2024 - MA)Sam Chiu v. Lianziang Fu
<h2><br> Boston, Massachusetts divorce lawyers represented husband and wife in a marriage dissolution case involving property division and alimony.<br> <h2><br> <br> The parties were married in China in 1992. They have one child who was born in 1996.[2] While the parties lived together in China when they first got married, they lived apart from one another throughout the majority of their twenty-t... More...
$0 (09-03-2024 - MA)Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Laurence Adams
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> <br> MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR POSTCONVICTION RELIEF<br> <br> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I. INTRODUCTION<br> <br> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The defendant, Laurence Adams, filed a Renewed And Revised Motion For Postconviction Relief. Related discovery motions, ... More...
$0 (04-15-2004 - MA)Stephen Saccoccia v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> 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.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> We draw the... More...
$0 (11-25-2021 - MA)United States of America v. Noel de Leon-De la Rosa United States of America v. Juan Batista Johnson-Debel
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with destruction of a controlled substance while on a vessel, and conspiracy to destroy a controlled substance while on a vessel chargeres. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> Noel de Leon-De la Rosa ("De <br> Leon") and Juan Batista Johnson-Debel ("Johnson") challenge their <br> respective federal co... More...
$0 (11-10-2021 - MA)United States of America v. KATHY S. CHIN United States of America v. MICHELLE L. THOMAS
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with alleged violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA") charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The following facts are not in dispute. Chin and Thomas <br> were licensed pharmacists who worked in the packing area at NECC. <br> Chin worked there from about November 2010 un... More...
$0 (10-15-2021 - MA)United States of America v. SHARON P. CARTER United States of America v. GREGORY CONIGLIARO
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with counts that pertained to their roles in connection with other aspects of NECC's operations charges. After patients across the country became <br> seriously ill or died in the fall of 2012 after having been injected with a contaminated medication traced to the New England Compounding Center ("NE... More...
$0 (10-14-2021 - MA)United States of America v. FRANCISCO OSCAR GRULLON, a/k/a Frank
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with participating in a massive scheme to defraud the federal government by falsifying tax returns charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The Scheme<br> <br> Beginning in October 2011, Grullon, a native of the <br> Dominican Republic who immigrated to the United States when he was <br> nine, c... More...
$0 (08-21-2021 - MA)United States of America v. ROBERT McCULLOCK
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with imposition of three special conditions of supervised release. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Robert McCullock has spent much of his life on the wrong <br> side of the law. And his rap sheet is quite disturbing, to say <br> the least.<br> First there is his state conviction for two counts ... More...
$0 (08-20-2021 - MA)United States of America v. SALLY LÓPEZ MARTÃNEZ
<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with various federal <br> offenses relating to public corruption involving the awarding of contracts to entities affiliated with Hernández by ADL, AAA, and the Puerto Rico House of Representatives charges.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The following facts are not in dispute. In January of <b... More...
$0 (08-19-2021 - MA)United States of America v. JOSÉ PADILLA-GALARZA a/k/a Joey
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with armed bank robbery and related crimes charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Defendant-appellant José PadillaGalarza, having created a ruckus before a jury empaneled to hear <br> criminal charges against him for armed bank robbery and related<br> crimes, tries to turn the tables. He... More...
$0 (08-18-2021 - MA)WILFREDO FELICIANO-RODRÃGUEZ v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possess with intent to distribute controlled substances between in or about 1998 and March 11, 2004; conspiracy to use, carry or possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On March 11, 2004, Feliciano, along with eleven codefendan... More...
$0 (08-18-2021 - MA)SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. DAVID JOHNSTON, AVEO PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.; TUAN HA-NGOC; WILLIAM SLICHENMYER
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Civil Enforcement lawyer represented defendant with a knowingly misleading investors charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> We begin with a summary of the evidence. Because <br> Johnston challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the <br> jury's verdict, we view the evidence in the light most favorable <br> to the verdict and d... More...
$0 (08-16-2021 - MA)United States of America v. CARLOS MALDONADO
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a armed assault with intent to murder charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This appeal turns on whether a <br> conviction under Massachusetts law for armed assault with intent <br> to murder qualifies as a crime of violence under section 4B1.2(a)<br> of the United States Sentencing Guid... More...
$0 (08-16-2021 - MA)United States of America v. RAFAEL ANTONIO SANTA-SOLER
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with driving under the influence of alcohol and unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon charges. </h2></font></b></i><br> </center><br> <br> Where, as here, a defendant appeals sentences imposed <br> following guilty pleas, we draw the facts from the plea colloquy, <br> th... More...
$0 (08-13-2021 - MA)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JEREMY REICHBERG, also known as Jeremiah Reichberg, also known as Yermy Reichberg
<center><h2><font color="red"> New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple bribery and obstruction of justice charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Jeremy Reichberg was a self-styled Brooklyn "liaison†to the <br> NYPD,2 in the business of selling preferred outcomes to encounters<br> with law enforcement. Reichberg's business model functioned b... More...
$0 (07-15-2021 - MA)UNITED STATES v. IDALIA MALDONADO-PEÑA
<center><h2><font color="red"> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, cocaine base (aka crack), marijuana, and prescription pill charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> These appeals arise from the drug conspiracy and <br> distribution convictions of five members of a vast drug trafficking <br> organization. Operating pri... More...
$0 (07-15-2021 - MA)United States of America v. Liam MacLeod
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/slideshows/slides/moakley_federal_courthouse.jpg?itok=In13o9q9"><br> </center><br> Boston, MA - Beverly Man Sentenced for Sending White Powder and Purported AIDS-Infected Blood to Online Dating Website<br> <br> A Beverly man was sentenced to probation today for sending a series of threatening let... More...
$0 (10-11-2019 - MA)United States of America v. Charles W. Garske, a/k/a Chuck Garske
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> This appeal requires us to address<br> a novel question implicating the Double Jeopardy Clause. See U.S.<br> Const. amend. V. Concluding, as we do, that the district court<br> erred in holding that the defendants were insulated from a retrial<br> by double jeopardy principles, we reve... More...
$0 (09-21-2019 - MA)United States of America v. Mohan Prashad Savton LLC, and Lanaton LLC
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.mad.uscourts.gov/worcester/img/Wcourthouse1.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Worcester, MA - Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Landlord and Employee Who Subjected Women to Sexual Harassment<br> <br> The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts alleging that female tenants of residential rental proper... More...
$0 (09-10-2019 - MA)United States of America v. John N. Kapoor; Richard M. Simon; Surise Lee; Joseph A. Rowan; and Michael J. Gurry
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> Boston, MA - Founder and Four Executives of Insys Therapeutics Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy<br> <br> First successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the prescribing of opioids<br> <br> The founder and four former executives of Insys Therapeu... More...
$0 (05-03-2019 - MA)United States of America v. Hugo Santana-Dones, et al.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.mad.uscourts.gov/worcester/img/worcCourt.jpg"><br> </center><br> For the most part, these<br> consolidated appeals turn on a single issue: whether the district<br> court erred in concluding that the court which issued the wiretap<br> warrant could have found the facts in the application to be at<br> least minimally adequate to support the issuance of t... More...
$0 (03-30-2019 - MA)Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> This putative class action<br> alleges that Citizens Bank's "Sustained Overdraft Fees" for<br> overdrawn checking accounts are usurious interest charges in<br> violation of Section 85 of the National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1 et<br> seq. The district court concluded that Citizens ... More...
$0 (03-26-2019 - MA)Garrick Calandro v. Sedgwick Claims Management Service, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> A Massachusetts statute,<br> familiarly known as Chapter 176D, requires firms that are "in the<br> business of insurance" to handle claims in good faith and to<br> respond reasonably to the exigencies of the settlement process.<br> Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176D, § 3. But every case h... More...
$0 (03-18-2019 - ma)Yilkal Bekele v. Lyft, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> This case is about the<br> enforceability of an arbitration clause alleged to be<br> unconscionable under Massachusetts law.<br> Yilkal Bekele, the plaintiff, drove for Lyft, Inc., the<br> defendant, starting in mid-2014. Bekele tapped "I accept" on his<br> iPhone 4 when presente... More...
$0 (03-14-2019 - MA)Thomas Guifoile v. John M. Shields, Sr., et al.
<center><br> <img width="300" src=" http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg "><br> </center><br> <br> In alleged violation of the False Claims Act, appellant Thomas Guilfoile claims <br> he was fired from his job in retaliation for accusing his employer <br> of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and making false representations <br> in customer contracts. See 31 U.S.C. § 3730(... More...
$0 (01-18-2019 - MA)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ALBA PENA, a/k/a Alba Toribio <p> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. INDRANIS ROCHEFORD
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Zuniga, Pena, and Rocheford were each indicted, on July <br> 16, 2015, in the United States District Court for the District of <br> Massachusetts on various counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 <br> U.S.C. § 1343. That indictment ... More...
$0 (12-17-2018 - MA)Jenna Zingg v. Thomas Groblewski
In 2015, Jenna Zingg ("Zingg"),<br> a pretrial detainee at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute-<br> Framingham ("MCI-Framingham"), sued Dr. Thomas Groblewski<br> ("Groblewski") and the Massachusetts Partnership for Correctional<br> Healthcare ("MPCH") in the United States District Court for the<br> District of Massachusetts. She brought a Massachusetts state law<br> claim for common law negli... More...
$0 (11-01-2018 - MA)Stephen Ellicott v. American Capital Energy, Inc., Thomas Hunton and Arthur Hennessey
This case concerns a contract<br> dispute between a solar energy company and a former sales employee.<br> Appellee Stephen Ellicott ("Ellicott") filed suit against<br> Appellants American Capital Energy, Inc. ("ACE") and its two<br> principals, Thomas Hunton ("Hunton") and Arthur Hennessey<br> ("Hennessey") (collectively, "Appellants"), claiming violations of<br> the Massachusetts Wage Act and bre... More...
$0 (10-22-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. BERNIE RUIZ
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3727/11555311115_39f6d7617c_b.jpg "><br> <h2> <font color="red"> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Once again we have occasion to interpret G. L. <br> c. 279, § 25 (a) (§ 25 [a]), which requires that a "habitual <br> criminal" -- a defendant who has been convicted of a felony and <br> has two prior convictions resulting in State ... More...
$0 (10-15-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. FERNANDO PEREZ
In Commonwealth v. Perez, 477 Mass. 677, 688 (2017) (Perez I), we determined that the juvenile defendant, 2 Fernando Perez, received a sentence for his nonhomicide offenses that was presumptively disproportionate under art. 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in that the time he would serve prior to parole eligibility exceeded that applicable to a juvenile convicted of murder. We th... More...
$0 (09-16-2018 - MA)Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
Jane Doe's insurer, Harvard<br> Pilgrim Health Care ("HPHC"), deemed part of the time Doe spent at<br> a mental health residential treatment facility not medically<br> necessary under the health care benefits plan established by the<br> employer of Doe's parent. HPHC therefore denied coverage for that<br> portion of the treatment. After several unsuccessful<br> administrative appeals, Doe sued HPH... More...
$0 (09-13-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. TAKII RASPBERRY <table> <td>
We recite the relevant facts as found by the motion judge, supplemented where necessary by uncontroverted police testimony, which the judge expressly credited in full. See Commonwealth v. Isaiah I., 448 Mass. 334, 337 (2007), S.C., 450 Mass. 818 (2008). None of the judge's subsidiary findings is challenged on appeal. In April, 2015, as part of a joint investigation with Federal authorities, th... More...
$0 (08-01-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. STEVEN M. WEBSTER <table> <td>
In the afternoon of July 11, 2012, Andrew Stanley was shot and killed at his home during an armed robbery and home invasion involving the defendant and three coventurers. The defendant, Steven M. Webster, was convicted of murder in the 2 first degree on a theory of felony-murder, home invasion, armed assault in a dwelling, armed robbery,1 and carrying a firearm without a license.2 The defen... More...
$0 (08-01-2018 - MA)In Re: Steven Fustolo - Steven Fustolo v. The Patroit Group, LLC
Following trial on The<br> Patriot Group, LLC's ("Patriot") adversary complaint requesting<br> denial of the discharge in bankruptcy of Steven Fustolo's<br> ("Fustolo") debt, the bankruptcy court allowed Patriot's motion to<br> amend its pleadings and denied Fustolo's discharge pursuant to the<br> newly added claim. Fustolo seeks reprieve from his encumbrance,<br> imploring us to reverse the bankr... More...
$0 (07-22-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. CARLOS SILVA <table> <td>
We recite the material facts in the light <br> most favorable to the Commonwealth. The defendant was charged, <br> inter alia, with multiple counts of indecent assault and battery <br> on a child under the age of fourteen, in violation of G. L. <br> c. 265, § 13B, as to four separate alleged victims; the <br> defendant was also charged with one count of rape of one of the <br> victims. As disc... More...
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