United States of America v. Condat Corporation
Detroit, Michigan civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for which Condat was ineligible. In January 2021, Condat Corporation, a Michigan company that produces a range of industrial lubricants, obtained a second draw... More...
(07-31-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Kenneth Bardwell
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obtaining millions of dollars in investment funds based on false pretenses. Digested by: Kent Morlan Kenneth Bardwell, 66, of West Bloomfield, was the operator of a company called “Motown Sports Group... More...
(07-23-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Zina Thomas
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery involving a federal program. Reported by: Kent Morlan Zina Thomas, 62, of Detroit, formerly employed as the Director of Homeownership Programs for a local non-profit, conspired with and paid bribe... More...
(07-07-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson and D’Angelo Ferguson admitted to participating in the submission of three separate PPP loan applications, which included false representations and fictitious supporting documents. As part of the scheme, D’Angelo Ferguson claimed each company had a certain amount of mont... More...
(04-27-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Randon “Romero” Williams
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly defrauding financial institutions and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Between approximately April 2020 and March 2021, Randon “Romero” Williams , 40, applied for more than $5 million in loans across six applications submitted to Paycheck Protecti... More...
(04-10-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Robert Glapinski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing thousands of images of child pornography. Dr. Robert Glapinski, 62, of Capac, Michigan. was accused to possession and distributing thousands of pornographic immages. On March 5, 2025, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip from Google that a user had child pornog... More...
(04-03-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”)
Detroit, Michigan, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a whistleblower claim. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”), operates approximately 140 physical therapy clinics in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia, agreed to pay $4,969,494 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for physical therapy serv... More...
(03-26-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Peter Valente
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Peter Valente and Angela Toma collaborated to fraudulently obtain $2,609,210 from the Paycheck Protection Program. Valente and Toma are alleged to have submitted false loan applications to Paycheck Protection Program lenders using inactive businesses and falsified bank records. When federal agents began i... More...
(03-05-2026 - MI)State of Michigan v. Lance Clowney, II
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Lance Clowney II was charged with three felony assault charges after allegedly striking someone with a hammer.... More...
(02-26-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Mohammad Hamdan
Detroit, Michigan, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted conspiracy to commit fraud. Mohammad Hamdan, age 44, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, admitted to utilizing his two pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims for prescriptions even though the prescribed drugs were medically unnecessary or not actually dispensed. In many instances, the pharmacies l... More...
(02-26-2026 - MI)Clarence Borns v. Troy Crisman, Warden
Detroit, Michigan: n December 2012, a vandal broke the windows of two homes owned by Evelyn Hardwick. She called the police, who said there was nothing they could do. But Hardwick “wanted to find out exactly . . . why . . . someone [would] come and tear out [her] windows in mid winter for absolutely nothing.” R. 23-6, Pg. ID 1715. She suspected the reason had something to do with her son, Jame... More...
(02-14-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Gerald Desean Jarrett
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
(02-13-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Samer Kammo
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a multi-million-dollar Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) fraud scheme. Samer Kammo, 46, and his co-conspirators tried to cheat the system by exploiting a federal relief program meant to help Americans in need. Let this case send a clear message: crime does not pay,” said Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in C... More...
(02-13-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Kyle Wagner
Detroit, Michigan, Zcriminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with making Federal threats and cyberstalking following alleged murder and assault threats against ICE. Kyle Wagner escalated his opposition to ICE operations, including conspiring and threatening to assault federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. In January 2026, Wagner repeatedly posted on Facebook and Insta... More...
(02-06-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Jabari Long
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Steve Fishman represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Long submitted fraudulent loan applications to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) for businesses that did not exist. Specifically, Long received $2,187,000 in federal loans for Priceless Preservations Construction, a company that Long claimed h... More...
(01-23-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Rita Shaba
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) wire and bank fraud. Rita Shaba, 40, and her co-conspirators caused fraudulent PPP applications to be submitted for several business entities. Those applications misrepresented payroll information for the business entities and falsely certified that PPP loan funds would be u... More...
(01-16-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Brandon Sims
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking and committing a crime of violence with a machine gun. Brandon Sims, 35, of Detroit, Michigan, committed the carjacking on October 18, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. Sims carjacked a man who was assisting a young woman move out of Mr. Sims’s residence. Sims entered the male victim’s SUV and brandished ... More...
(01-14-2026 - MI)United States of America v. Ceratizit USA, L.L.C. and Mark Alan Stover
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act. Ceratizit USA LLC (Ceratizit), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based distributor of tungsten carbide products, has agreed to pay $54.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly failing to pay duties owed on tungsten carbide product... More...
(12-23-2025 - MI)United States of America v. Kevin Lavon Giles
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking children by force, fraud or coercion. Kevin Lavon Giles, 59, of Detroit, was convicted of two counts of sex trafficking children and through force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of sex trafficking an adult through force, fraud, or coercion. The testimony at trial proved Giles exploited his f... More...
(12-16-2025 - MI)United States of America v. Martin Daryl Waskowski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children and possession of porn. On December 3, 2025, Martin Daryl Waskowski, 38, of Royal Oak. was traveling from Canada back to the United States when he was stopped by Customs and Border Protection inspections at a border crossing in Vermont. Waskowski’s digital devices, including a cell phone... More...
(12-10-2025 - MI)United States of America v. John Allen Grayeski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.... More...
(11-25-2025 - MI)United States of America v. Mary Smelter-Bolton
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. ... More...
(11-25-2025 - MI)United States of America v. Nabil Fakih,R.Ph.
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud.... More...
(11-25-2025 - MI)United States of America v. Darese Deandre Haile
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with car jacking. Darese Haile (and an unidentified individual) carjacked four Lyft drivers.... More...
(11-05-2025 - MI)State of Michigan v. Terrell Epel Youngblood
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer representing Defendant charged with econd-degree murder, felony firearm and carrying a concealed weapon. Terrell Epel Youngblood, 21, of Detroit, was accused for shooting and killing a 16-year-old boy. ... More...
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