Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, which provides:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or tel... More...    $0 (10-14-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a breach of contract theory.


After plaintiff filed this class-action complaint against defendants in the trial court, defendants filed a motion to compel arbitration. The trial court granted the motion. Plaintiff appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Gist v. Zoan Management, Inc., 305 Or.App... More...    $0 (07-08-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Latanya Jenkins, 51, was charged with:

18:1349 Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud
(1)
18:1344 BANK FRAUD
(2-8)
18:1028A Aggravated Identity Theft
(9-15)
18:1028A Aggravated Identity Theft
(16)
18:1028A Aggravated Identity TheftMore...    $0 (02-01-2022 - OR)

Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently converting to his own personal use federal money intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeremy Clawson, 32, was charged with theft of public money in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641.

“Recent federal relief programs, like those authorized by the CARES Act, were designed to ... More...    $0 (09-16-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jeremy Clawson, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of public money.

Clawson took advantage of economic relief programs administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relie... More...    $0 (06-09-2021 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Susan Tranberg, 62, of Eugene, Oregon, who was for defrauding her former employer, the Weyerhaeuser Company, out of more than $4.5 million.

Beginning as early as June 2004 and continuing to January 2019, Tranberg defrauded Weyerhaeuser out of more than $4.5 million by submitting fraudulent invoices for payment to ... More...    $0 (04-19-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense filing false tax return charge lawyer represented Anndrea D. Jacobs, age 49, the former office manager and bookkeeper for a La Grande, Oregon medical practice was charged with defrauding two separate employers and filing false tax returns.

According to court documents, beginning on or about January 2011 and continuing until her termination in December 201... More...    $0 (01-09-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with fraud.

A federal grand jury in Portland has returned a 6 count indictment charging Roderick Ariwite, age 65, a resident on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, and Thomas Adams, age 48, a resident on the Warm Springs Reservation, with Conspiracy and Theft/Misapplication of Funds from a Tribal Organization. This ... More...    $0 (09-29-2020 - OR)

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged Mark Edward Staggs with filing a false tax return.

Mark Edward Staggs, 64, a resident of Portland, was sentenced to six months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for filing a false federal income tax return in 2011. Staggs was also ordered to pay more than $142,000 in restitution to the IRS.

According to court d... More...    $0 (02-29-2020 - OR)

In this wage-claim case, defendant appeals the
trial court’s award of attorney fees under ORS 652.200(2)
and ORS 652.615. Plaintiff was a commercial truck driver
who sued defendant, his former employer, for failing to pay
wages that it owed plaintiff, and for withholding a small
sum from his paycheck, albeit with his consent. The trial
court transferred plaintiff’s case to ... More...    $0 (06-01-2017 - OR)

In this wrongful discharge case, plaintiff appeals
the trial court’s judgment in favor of plaintiff’s former
employer, defendant Washington County.1 Plaintiff asserts
that the trial court erred when it granted a directed verdict
to the county based on its conclusion that plaintiff was
not fulfilling an important public duty, which is a required
element of a wrongful dischar... More...    $0 (02-08-2017 - OR)

The Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division
(DMV) appeals from a judgment that set aside an administrative
order that suspended petitioner’s driver’s license for
a year. The circuit court ruled that an administrative law
judge (ALJ) had improperly excluded evidence of a urinalysis
of a sample that petitioner gave the morning after her
arrest for driving under the influen... More...    $0 (02-23-2017 - OR)

Petitioner appeals from a judgment denying his
claims for post-conviction relief. Petitioner argues that he
was denied adequate assistance of appellate counsel pursuant
to Article I, section 11, of the Oregon Constitution,
because his appellate lawyer failed to raise, as plain error,
the trial court’s decision to proceed to a bench trial on petitioner’s
two consolidated cas... More...    $0 (11-30--0001 - OR)

Petitioner was convicted of multiple crimes in 2006
and sentenced to a lengthy period of incarceration. He initiated
this post-conviction proceeding in 2013 by filing a
pro se claim for post-conviction relief in which he raised a single
claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, premised
on several alleged deficiencies in representation. The postconviction
court dism... More...    $0 (03-22-2017 - OR)

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for manslaughter in the second degree, ORS 163.125, for causing the death of another while driving. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal, contending that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he acted recklessly. The state responds that the evidence is sufficient “to support a reasonable inference that... More...    $0 (02-18-2017 - OR)

Police officers entered a residence without a warrant and opened a wooden box that they found in a bedroom, believing that they had lawful consent to take each of those actions. Defendant, who was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance based on evidence found in the box, moved to suppress the evidence under Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution, on the ground that th... More...    $0 (01-03-2017 - OR)

Eugene, OR - Oregon Couple Sentenced to Prison for Tax Crimes

Long Term Tax Protesters Fled Oregon After Being Convicted at Trial

A Coos County couple was sentenced to federal prison for tax crimes they were convicted of in October 2014.

Ronald Joling, 72, and Dorothea Joling, 73, both of Coquille, Oregon, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States by ... More...    $0 (12-11-2015 - OR)

Petitioner appeals from a judgment dismissing her petition for post-conviction relief with prejudice. The petition currently at issue is petitioner’s second. She previously filed for post-conviction relief in 1999, after the completion of the direct appeal in her underlying criminal case. That petition for post-conviction relief was denied in 2001. This second petition, which petitioner filed at t... More...    $0 (09-29-2015 - OR)

PORTLAND, Ore. – U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman sentenced Bryan Scott Gunn, 40, of Victorville, California, to 20 months in prison for coning investors out of almost $1 million. Judge Mosman also sentenced Gunn to serve three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $939,308 in restitution.

According to court documents, Gunn was a fairly sophisticated conman. In... More...    $0 (06-16-2015 - OR)

Plaintiff, who is a former employee of the State of
Oregon—specifically, Oregon Youth Authority—filed a complaint
seeking damages from the state and Sid Thompson,
the superintendent of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility
where plaintiff had worked (collectively, OYA).1 After OYA
moved for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to ORCP 21 B,
the trial court concluded that p... More...    $0 (04-15-2015 - OR)

Andrew Hickey (Andy) and H & H Cattle Feeders,
Inc. (H & H) appeal a general judgment, challenging two
remedies ordered by the trial court under ORS 60.952 upon
its finding that Andy had engaged in self-dealing between
Hickey Ranches, Inc. (HRI), a closely held family corporation,
and H & H, a company that Andy wholly owned.1 Denis
Hickey (Denis), Andy’s brother and a min... More...    $0 (02-25-2015 - OR)

MEDFORD, Ore. - Ryan Juan Pitcher, 38, and Shawn Francis Farrell, 31, both from Medford, Oregon, and Logan Chad Clark, 25, Rogue River, Oregon were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner for their convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and possessing and passing counterfeit checks. Pitcher was sentenced to 94 months; Farr... More...    $0 (02-08-2015 - OR)

EUGENE, Ore. – Roger Paul Villeneuve, 72, of Coos Bay, Oregon was sentenced to thirteen months in prison after pleading guilty to structuring a currency transaction. Villeneuve was given 45 days to self-surrender.

Federal regulations require banks to report currency transactions over $10,000, and willfully structuring a transaction to avoid a currency transaction report is a federal of... More...    $0 (01-16-2015 - OR)

Horizon Air Industries, Inc., petitions for reversal of an order by the 2 Workers' Compensation Board. At issue on review is the board's conclusion that 3 claimant, a flight attendant, suffered a compensable injury arising from an incident 4 aboard one of employer's aircraft. We conclude that substantial evidence supports the 5 board's findings that (1) claimant suffered an "injury" during the cou... More...    $0 (10-15-2014 - OR)

2 This consolidated appeal involves interrelated judgments in two separate
3 actions concerning a conservatorship for Allison Fuentes. The first action, the
4 conservatorship proceeding, was commenced in 1999 in the probate court after the death
5 of Allison's mother; Allison's aunt, Mary Tillett, was appointed conservator and guardian
6 ad litem for Allison. In 2008, Allison's sis... More...    $0 (05-21-2014 - OR)

The State of Oregon charged Wayne Hagner first-degree murder in conjunction with the shooting death of his wife, Anna Lee Hagner, on July 5, 2013. Mrs. Hager, who was disabled, was found dead by officer who went to the house to conduct a wellness check.

Hagner, who is a convicted felon, who not supposed to have firearms in his possession, claimed that his wife's death was an accident.... More...    $0 (01-25-2014 - OR)

The dispute here is a familiar one: a construction defect action by a homeowners association against the developer and general contractor, who then filed third-party complaints against the multiple subcontractors. Most, but not all, of the claims settled. The claims of the developer and general contractor, La Noue Development, LLC (La Noue), against several subcontractors went to trial. Although L... More...    $0 (12-04-2013 - OR)