New York Larceny Law
<h2> <center> State of New York v. Umar R. Graham </h2> </center>
Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged two counts of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree (Class D felonies), one count of Unlawful Possession of Personal Identification Information in the Second Degree (Class E felony) and one count of Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree (Class E felony). Graham entered a guilty plea to all counts of the indictment. Reporte... More...
$ (09-03-2026 - NY)<h2> <center> State of New York v. Juan Valoy </h2> </center>
New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Juan Valoy, age 47, stole approximately $25,000 from three victims through an apartment rental scam. From March to Jul... More...
$ (07-16-2026 - NY)<h2> <center> United States of America v. R. Keneth (Ken) Leach, II </h2> </center>
New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with: 5:80B.F DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY COMMISSION (INVESTMENT ADVISER FRAUD) (1) 18:1505.F OBSTRUCTION OF PROCEEDING BEFORE DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES (1s) 15:78J.F MANIPULATIVE AND DECEPTIVE DEVICES (SECURITIES FRAUD) (2) 7:13A.F & 60.F EMBEZZLEMENT OR LARCENY, EMPLOYEES OF U.S. GOVERNMENT (COMMODI... More...
$ (06-12-2026 - NY)State of New York v. Timothy D. Berry
Amherst, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. On or about Friday, September 27, 2024, and Friday, October 4, 2024, Timothy D. Berry, 36, of Williamsville, knowingly and intentionally stole money from the organization, which was collected through a social media fundraiser to support the group’s Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The defendant transferre... More...
$ (03-02-2026 - NY)State of New York v. Ernesto Cabrera
Albany County, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of robbery, attempted robbery, two counts of menacing, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child, and petit larceny. On September 12, 2025, Ernesto Cabrera, 25-year-old, broke into a car parked on Clinton Avenue. He took several items from the car when he w... More...
$ (02-11-2026 - NY)<H2> State of New York v. Rosalinda Hernandez
New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand larceny. Rosalind Hernandez, was living in a Chelsea apartment building and working as the superintendent when she befriended the resident, Antonio Ruas, age 98, and gained his confidence. Hernandez was accused for stealing more than $350,000 from him.... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - NY)<H2> State of New York v. Elhadji Sene
New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defnedant charged with identity theft, Criminal possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a class C felony, one count, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a class D felony, one count. Elhadji Sene, age 34, was accused of stealing the identities of multiple individuals, making unauthorized purchases, and possessing weapons and st... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - NY)State of New York v. Sanford Solny
New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 13 counts of third-degree criminal possession of stolen property and one count of third-degree grand larceny. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a disbarred Brooklyn attorney who stole the deeds to 11 residential properties across Brooklyn, primarily from minority homeowners in fi... More...
$ (12-01-2025 - NY)State of New York v. Mark G. Whalen
Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter, leaving the scene of an incident, grand larcey, reckless driving, and fleeing from a police officer,<br> <br> Mark Whalen, age 32, pleaded guilty, as charged, to the following offenses:<br> <br> One count of Manslaughter in the Second Degree (Class C felony)<br> One count of Leaving the Scene of... More...
$0 (09-12-2025 - NY)State of New York v. Dr. Michael Lucchesi
Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with larceny.<br> <br> DR. Michael Lucchesi, age 67, was accused of stealing more than $1.44 million of public money from the hospital and spending it on luxury goods for himself, his family and his pets.<br> <br> District Attorney Gonzalez said, "This defendant was entrusted with a leadership role at a critical Brooklyn... More...
$0 (08-07-2025 - NY)Luciano Santiago v. Mksud Trax Agadjani
<h2><br> Brooklyn, New York civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> According to plaintiff Santiago's summons and verified complaint, defendants made false allegations against the plaintiff which caused the NYPD to arrest Santiago. Santiago further states that the defendants made these false allegations on various occasions and gave encouragement importuning the NYPD with the ... More...
$0 (10-11-2024 - NY)<h1> United States of America v. Scott Solomon </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Pandemic Relief Fraud </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Albany Man Sentenced to Prison for Pandemic Relief Fraud</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Scott Solomon, age 38, of Albany, admitted that in 2020, he fraudulently app... More...
$0 (07-25-2024 - NY)<h1> United States of America v. Joel Cook </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i>Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Coerce a Child to Engage in Unlawful Sexual Conduct and Possessing a Loaded Handgun as a Convicted Felon.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b> Tompkins County Man Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Federal Prison for Attempting to Coerce... More...
$0 (03-21-2024 - NY)State of New York v. Glenn Horowitz, et al.
New York, New York criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with grand larceny. <br> <br> Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi, and Edward Kosinshi were accused of conspiring to make money from stilen lyrics for Eagles Songs.<br> <br> In the 1970, a writer working on a book about the Eagles got possession of 100-pages of notest and lyrics relating to the writing of the "Hotel Californ... More...
$0 (02-21-2024 - NY)Sate of New York v. Miya Ponsetto, a/k/a "SoHo Karen"
New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with committing a hate crime.<br> <br> Miya Ponsetto, a/k/a "SoHo Karen," was indicted for unlawfully imprisoning Keyon Harrold, Jr., age 14, after she accusing him of stealing her cell phone.<br> <br> Defendant Keyon and his father were all guests at the Arlo Soho hotel.<br> <br> It was later determined that she left her pho... More...
$0 (04-12-2022 - NY)United States of America v. VICKRAM BEDI and DATALINK COMPUTER PRODUCTS, INC.
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with <br> arguing that the Government may not use the procedures of the FDCPA to collect the unpaid wages charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This appeal turns on a question of statutory interpretation: <br> whether the FDCPA authorizes the United States to collect on an <br> administrati... More...
$0 (10-17-2021 - NY)United States of America v. Gustavo L. Vila
New York City, New York grand theft charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Gustavo L. Vila, who was charged with stealing approximately $1 million that the Department of Justice's 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund ("VCFâ€) had awarded to VILA's client, a 9/11 first responder. <br> <br> "Gustavo Vila stole money awarded by the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund to his client, an NYPD o... More...
$0 (04-20-2021 - NY)United States of America v. Thomas J. Spota and Christopher McPartland
Brooklyn, NY - United States of America charged Thomas J. Spota and Christopher McPartland with conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and obstruction of official proceedings.<br> <br> Former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota and Christopher McPartland, the former Chief of Investigations and Chief of the Government Corruption Bureau of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (... More...
$0 (12-27-2019 - NY)Byran Francis v. Kimberly Fiacco, a/k/a Kimberly Davidson, Richard DeSimone, Diane Holford, and Kristina Lennon
This case concerns the liability of state prison officials attempting to<br> implement a prisoner’s state sentence in relation to a subsequently imposed<br> federal sentence on another charge. In 2006, Byran Francis pleaded guilty to two<br> separate charges in two separate jurisdictions: a drug charge in New York state<br> court and a gun possession charge in federal court. Francis’s state se... More...
$0 (11-13-2019 - NY)State of New York v. Anna Sorkin
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/supctmanh/images/60CentreStExtW.jpg"><br> </center><br> New York, NY - The State of New York charged Anna Sorkin, age 28, with second-degree grand larceny, theft of servicdes, grand larceny and attempted grand larceny.<br> <br> The Russian immigrant from a middle class family passed herself off as an heiress named Anna Delvey t... More...
$0 (04-26-2019 - NY)United States of America v. Calvin Stephon Moore
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nynb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/albany_002.jpeg"><br> </center><br> <br> 22 Defendant‐Appellant Calvin Stephon Moore appeals his<br> 23 sentence following a guilty plea to three counts of federal bank<br> 24 robbery in the United States District Court for Northern District of<br> 25 New York (Thomas J. McAvoy, Judge). Moore received three<b... More...
$0 (02-26-2019 - NY)United States of America v. Scott Valente
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.nynb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/albany_002.jpeg"><br> </center><br> 23 Scott Valente (“Valente”) appeals from the district court’s amended<br> 24 judgment of conviction entered on July 21, 2017. He contends that his sentence was<br> 25 procedurally and substantively unreasonable and that the district court lacked<br> 26 authority to impose ... More...
$0 (02-15-2019 - NY)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA –v.– WILLIAM THROWER
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg/300px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> In 2005, William Thrower was convicted of possessing a firearm while <br> pr... More...
$0 (02-04-2019 - NY)Seun Ogunkoya v. Mark Monaghan
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://img.nyed.uscourts.gov/files/BK-Court.png"><br> </center><br> <br> This appeal principally concerns whether two Monroe County Assistant District<br> Attorneys, James Egan and Mark Monaghan (“the ADAs”), are absolutely immune from<br> civil suit for interfering in the timing of Plaintiff‐Appellee Seun Ogunkoya’s<br> arraignments in several town ... More...
$0 (01-10-2019 - NY)United states of America v. Douglas Wood
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/BuffaloCH_fromSQ.jpg"><br> </center><br> Buffalo, NY - Jamestown Man Pleads Guilty To Being A Felon In Possession Of A Gun<br> <br> Douglas Wood, 38, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison an... More...
$0 (11-14-2018 - NY)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MANUEL PEREIRA-GOMEZ, AKA Manuel Jesus Pereira, AKA Manuel Pereiro, AKA Manny Pereira <table> <td>
In 1997, Pereira pleaded guilty in New York state court to attempted robbery in the second degree. He was subsequently deported from the United States on three occasions. After reentering the United States a fourth time, he was arrested for, inter alia, felony offenses of driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. On October 21, 2015, Pereira was indicted for... More...
$0 (09-09-2018 - NY)United States of America v. Tamika Favors
Buffalo, NY - Buffalo Woman Sentenced For Use Of Fraudulently Obtained Credit Card<br> <br> Tamika Favors, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of misdemeanor bank larceny, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, to a two year term of probation, and ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution.<br> <br> Assistant U.S. Attorney MaryEllen Kresse, who handled the case, stated that in Au... More...
$8000 (03-20-2018 - NY)United States of America v. Tamika Favors
Buffalo, NY - Buffalo Woman Sentenced For Use Of Fraudulently Obtained Credit Card<br> <br> Tamika Favors, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of misdemeanor bank larceny, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, to a two year term of probation, and ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution.<br> <br> Assistant U.S. Attorney MaryEllen Kresse, who handled the case, stated that in Au... More...
$0 (03-17-2018 - NY)State of New York v. Yury Baumblit and Rimma Baumblit
Brooklyn, NY - Jury Convicts Slum Lord of Medicaid Fraud<br> <br> The State of New York charged Yury Baumblit and Rimma Baumblit with:<br> <br> PL 155.35 00<br> **TOP CHARGE** D Felony, 1 count, Not an arrest charge, Not an arraignment charge<br> Description Grand Larceny 3rd Degree<br> Indictment Count 4<br> Date Added 02/14/2018<br> Pled Guilty<br> PL 470.15 01 C Felony, 1 count, Arrest char... More...
$0 (02-16-2018 - NY)The People of the State of New York v. Stan XuHui Li <table> <td>
Defendant was a physician specializing in pain management. In 2004, he opened a pain management clinic in Queens. According to the People, the clinic was nothing more than a "pill mill" catering to people who were hopelessly addicted to pain medicine, primarily opioids. The People's evidence showed that, despite having been trained in the wide variety of methods for identifying legitimate pain and... More...
$0 (12-02-2017 - NY)United States of America v. Friana Fugate
Buffalo, NY - Former Postal Carrier Sentenced For Bribery, Drug Distribution And Delay Of Mail<br> <br> Briana Fugate, 27, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of bribery, distribution of marijuana, and delay of mail, was sentenced to 12 months.<br> <br> Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who handled the case, stated that Fugate accepted bribes to help deliver what she believed to be drug ship... More...
$0 (08-29-2017 - NY)State of New York v. Norman Beavers
New York, NY - Defendant Sentenced to 11.5 Years For Stealing and Using Victim's Identity for 12 Years<br> <br> Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of NORMAN BEAVERS, 48, to 5 ½-to-11 years in state prison for stealing the identity of a Manhattan resident, working under the victim’s name and Social Security number, fraudulently collecting unemployment... More...
$0 (07-19-2017 - NY)<b>The People of the State of New York v. Justin Alfonso, also known as "King Kasanova"</b></h2.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Greller, J.), rendered July 15, 2013, convicting him of conspiracy in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree (two counts), assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree, gang assault in the first degree, attempted gang assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in ... More...
$0 (09-30-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. FRANCIS S. WATKINS
Appeal from judgment of the County Court of Washington County (McKeighan, J.), rendered March 14, 2013, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of burglary in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree.<br> Defendant pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with burglary in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree. During the plea proceedings, ... More...
$0 (06-30-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v . MALI WILKERSON, Also Known as NEW
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Giardino, J.), rendered May 17, 2013, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the second degree, assault in the second degree, assault in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child.<br> Defendant and the victim married in 2007 and have three children in common. On the evening of April 21, 2012, ... More...
$0 (06-13-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. TRACY L. BROOKS
On appeal from a judgment convicting her, upon her plea of guilty, of grand larceny in the third degree (Penal Law § 155.35 [1]), defendant challenges only the amount of restitution that she was directed to pay following a hearing conducted pursuant to Penal Law § 60.27 (2) and CPL 400.30. Defendant, who admitted to stealing from the parent-teacher organization of which she had been treasurer,... More...
$0 (05-09-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. JESSE J. BARNES
Appeal from a resentence of the Ontario County Court (Frederick G. Reed, A.J.), rendered July 9, 2014. Defendant was resentenced upon his conviction of burglary in the second degree (two counts), grand larceny in the third degree (two counts), grand larceny in the fourth degree (two counts), and criminal mischief in the third degree (two counts).<br> ... More...
$0 (05-08-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. JESSE J. BARNES
In appeal No. 1, defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him following retrial upon a jury verdict of, inter alia, two counts of burglary in the second degree (Penal Law § 140.25 [2]), two counts of grand larceny in the third degree (§ 155.35 [1]), and two counts of criminal mischief in the third degree (§ 145.05 [2]) and, in appeal No. 2, he appeals from the resentence imposed on that co... More...
$0 (05-08-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v AUDELIS CRUZ
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Williams, J.), rendered November 7, 2013, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of murder in the second degree and petit larceny.<br> In February 2013, Anita Jacobs-Royer (hereinafter the victim) was discovered dead in her residence in the City of Kingston, Ulster County. An autopsy revealed that the victim had been strangle... More...
$0 (04-22-2016 - NY)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK V. JOHN J. SLACK
Appeal from a judgment of the Genesee County Court (Robert C. Noonan, J.), rendered April 9, 2014. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of grand larceny in the third degree. <br> It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously modified as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and on the law by reducing the conviction to petit larceny and vacat... More...
$0 (03-19-2016 - NY)