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United States of America v. Thiago De Souza Prado
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with - 2 - AFRAME, Circuit Judge. A jury convicted Thiago de Souza with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The case arose from a scheme to defraud rideshare and food delivery companies and, to further that scheme, steal or misappropriate the identities of third parties. Prado was born ...
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( 07-11-2025 - MA)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Morris I. Clemons
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with drug possession. At about 9:32 P..M. on November 6, 2022, Officer Tredeau saw the Toyota stopped to the side of a roadway. The Toyota's brake lights were on, its transmission was in drive, and the defendant, who was its sole occupant, was slumped over and asleep with his foot on the brake pedal. When Offi...
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( 07-01-2025 - MA)

United States ex rel. Martin Flanagan v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Fresenius Medical Care North America
Boston, Massachusetts qui tam lawyers represented the Plaintiff suing on a False Claims Act fraud theory. Martin Flanagan brought this qui tam suit against Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. ("Fresenius"), under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3729, alleging a fraudulent kickback scheme related to referrals to Fresenius-operated dialysis clinics. The district court dismissed...
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( 07-01-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Richard Evans
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with filing false claims to BPD for overtime pay and his participation in a scheme to submit such claims and wire fraud. Evans entered BPD's police academy in 1983 and was promoted to the rank of Captain on January 20, 2010. Captain is the highest-ranking position within the BPD that can be achieved without b...
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( 07-01-2025 - MA)

Andy Luu Tran v. Citizens Bank, N.A., f/k/a RBS Citizens
Boston, Massachusetts bankruptcy lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking to avoid the transfer of his interest in his home. In 2008, Tran granted Citizens Bank, N.A. (the "Bank") a mortgage on the Property. In 2022, the Bank foreclosed on the Property at an auction sale in which Herbert Jacobs was the high bidder. Jacobs and the Bank executed a memorandum of sale at the close of the auct...
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( 07-01-2025 - MA)

Igor Odnovorov v. Svitlana Odnovorov
Boston, Massachusetts family law lawyers represented the husband and wife in a divorce action. "In making a property division and alimony determination under G. L. c. 208, § 34, a judge must make findings indicating that [she] has considered all factors relevant under § 34, and has not considered any irrelevant factors." T.E. v. A.0., 82 Mass.App.Ct. 586, 592 (2012), quoting Bowring v....
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( 06-30-2025 - MA)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Jheremy N. Sanchez
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carrying a firearm without a license, G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a.); carrying a loaded firearm without a license, G. L. c. 269, § 10 (n); and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, G. L. c. 269, § 12E. * * * Legal issue Was the evidence sufficient to support the conviction for carryi...
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Joseph Corea
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND TO POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 400 GRAMS OR MORE OF FENTANYL, FIVE KILOGRAMS OR MORE OF COCAINE, AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, DISTRIBUTION OF AND POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 500 GRAMS OR MORE OF COCAINE; AIDING AND ABETTING, POSSESSION OF A FIREARM ...
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( 06-20-2025 - ma)

United States of America v. Jose Edinson Montealegre-Fernandez
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY, MONETARY TRANSACTIONS IN CRIMINALLY DERIVED PROPERTY; AIDING AND ABETTING, AND LAUNDERING OF MONETARY INSTRUMENTS; AIDING AND ABETTING....
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Marco Antonio Jauregui
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with: 21:846 - CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND TO POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE FIVE KILOGRAMS OR MORE OF COCAINE AND 400 GRAMS OR MORE OF FENTANYL and 18:1956(h) - MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY...
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Anny Cruz
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and to posses with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, cocaine, and cocaine base....
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Ranyel Reyes
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin. ...
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

Karen Morales-Posada, et al. v. Cultural Care, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts labor law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory. e complaint alleges that Cultural Care violated the plaintiffs' rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and various state wage and hour laws by failing to pay them legal wages for their work as au pairs. It also alleges violations of state deceptive trade practi...
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

Mamdou Bah, et al. v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Boston, LLC, et al.
Boston, Massachusetts labor law lawyers represented a class of plaintiff suing on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory. Mamadou Bah's complaint alleged that, in violation of the FLSA, Enterprise Boston and EHI failed to pay overtime wages prior to November 27, 2016, to assistant branch managers whom, like himself, the two companies jointly employed. As support for the FLSA claims, ...
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( 06-20-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Elionidas Najera Perez
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful reentry of deported alien. ...
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( 06-18-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Derk Aut
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzlement by a bank employe and aggravated identity theft. * * * 18 U.S.C. § 656 is a federal law that criminalizes embezzlement, misapplication of funds, or theft by individuals connected with banks, including officers, directors, agents, or employees. It applies to a variety of financial in...
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( 06-18-2025 - ma)

Bruno Project Rescue, Inc., et al. v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, et al.
Boston, Massachusetts civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiffs seeking review of a agency decision on an Administrative Procedure Act theory relating to the CDC rules relating to the importation of dogs. * * * The CDC's dog importation regulations, effective August 1, 2024, aim to prevent the introduction of dog rabies virus variant (DMRVV) into the US. These regulation...
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( 06-18-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Aleksel Andriunin
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud. * * * Conspiracy to commit market manipulation involves an agreement between two or more people to artificially influence the price of a security or commodity, often through deceptive practices. This can involve spreading false inform...
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( 06-18-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Jose Edinson Montealegre-Fernandez
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with money laundering conspirayc, monetary transactions in criminally derived property. * * * 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h) defines the crime of money laundering conspiracy. It essentially makes it a federal offense to conspire with others to commit money laundering as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1956. To be found...
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( 06-18-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Ranyel Reyes
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute an distribution of heroine. the most commonly prosecuted federal drug statutes prohibit the manufacture, distribution, importation, and exportation of controlled substances.1 They also prohibit attempts and conspiracies to do the same.2 As discussed below, the...
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( 06-18-2025 - MA)

Dahua Technology USA, Inc. v. Feng Zhang
Boston, Massachusetts commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a contract dispute. Zhang alleges that Dahua breached its obligation to pay him severance of $680,000 per month for sixteen months. Dahua maintains that the parties only intended Zhang to receive a total severance of $680,000, paid in sixteen monthly installments. Dahua sued under diversity jurisdi...
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( 06-12-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Jovan Vavic
Boson, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Jovan Vavic was an award-winning head coach of the men's and women's water polo teams at the University of Southern California (USC). As head coach, he was responsible for recruiting elite high school players and fundraising for his teams. In 2019, he was indicted for his role in the nationwide "Va...
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( 06-02-2025 - MA)


Boston, Massachusetts family law lawyer represented the parties in a divorce. The parties entered a stipulation for partial judgment, which, at least initially, left open only a single question for trial: whether the marital home should be included as divisible marital property, and, if so, how its value should be divided. At some point, it appears the parties also agreed to submit for tr...
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( 05-20-2025 - MA)


Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Keolis Commuter Services Former Electrical Company General Manager Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Keolis Commuter Services The former ...
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( 05-15-2025 - MA)

United States of America v. Trevor Jones
Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sex Trafficking Four Victims Everett Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking Four Victims An Everett man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to fou...
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( 05-15-2025 - MA)

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