Oregon Conspiracy Law
 

United States of America v. David Katz

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Payroll Tax Scheme

Oregon Check Casher Sentenced to Federal Prison for Payroll Tax Scheme Involving $177 Million



David Katz, 48, from Tualatin, Oregon, was... More...
   $0 (02-04-2025 - OR)

United States of America v. Samantha Miller

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Wire Fraud Conspiracy and Illegally Dispensing Animal Drugs

Columbia County Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Wire Fraud Conspiracy and Illegally Dispensing Animal Drugs

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   $0 (01-17-2025 - OR)

United States of America v. Horacio Luna-Perez

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Large Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

Prominent Oregon Drug Trafficker and Final Defendant in Large Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Sentenced to Federal Prison



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   $0 (08-19-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Mark Villanueva


Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs

Lane County Man Who Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs Trade Sentenced to Federal Prison



A Lane County, Oregon man who negotiated the ... More...
   $0 (07-21-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Mark Villanueva

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Negotiating Guns-for-Drugs

Lane County Man Who Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs Trade Sentenced to Federal Prison



In August 2020, special agents from the Bureau of ... More...
   $0 (07-17-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Cody Joel Stewart

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with scheme to steal large quantities of mail and use victims’ personal and financial documents and information to fraudulently obtain apartment leases, open bank accounts without authorization, and acquire other goods and services.
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   $0 (07-10-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Victor Diaz-Ramirez

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with International Drug Trafficking

Leader of International Drug Trafficking Organization Operating in Lane County Sentenced to Federal Prison



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   $0 (06-18-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Israel Sarabia

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking.

Central Oregon Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Federal Prison



A Central Oregon drug trafficker who conspired with others to traffic fentanyl and methamphetamine to Madras ... More...
   $0 (04-24-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Richard Dunham

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Schemes to Defraud Simplot.


Former Grass Seed Company Employee Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Schemes to Defraud Simplot




An Idaho man who formerly supe... More...    $0 (03-21-2024 - OR)

ANTHONY JESS COLDIRON RANGEL v. THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Appellant's first-degree felony murder charge was predicated on alternative factual theories. The State alleged the murder occurred either while Appellant was in the commission of robbery with a dangerous weapon or while in the commission of distribution of a controlled dangerous ... More...
   $0 (02-05-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Javier Sarabia

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a California Drug Trafficker.




A Fontana, California man was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a local drug distribution ring responsible for trafficking large quanti... More...
   $0 (02-01-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Kentrell Allen-Tillman

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats or violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951, 18 U.S.C. 371, and 18 U.S.C. 372.... More...    $0 (09-28-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Paloma Celeste Perez-Ventura

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute meth in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1).... More...    $0 (09-28-2023 - or)

United States of America v. Melesio Gomez-Rivera

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a multiyear scheme to evade the payment of payroll and income taxes on the wages of construction workers.

Melesio Gomez-Rivera, 49, of Aloha, Oregon, owned and operated a residential construction company called Novatos Construction. From January 2014 until December 2017, Gomez-Rivera and several other c... More...
   $0 (05-31-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Robert J. Jesenik, Andrew N. MacRitchie and Brian K. Rise

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.

Robert J. Jesenik, 63, former chief executive officer of Aequitas and resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon; Andrew N. MacRitchie, 59, formerly of Palm Harbor, Florida; and Brian K. Rice, 56, of Portland were found guilty of conspiring with one another to commit mail and wire fraud and 28 ind... More...
   $0 (05-17-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Eduardo Barbosa Lopez

Portland Oregon criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with supplying large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin to a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization operating in the Portland Metropolitan Area.

Eduardo Barbosa Lopez, 44, also known as Barbas, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release.

Beginning in 2018, two men, Samu... More...
   $0 (08-30-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Michael Malekzadeh

Eugene, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and money laundering.

The former owner and chief financial officer of Zadeh Kicks LLC, a now-defunct Oregon corporation that sold limited edition and collectible sneakers online perpetrating a fraud scheme that allegedly cost customers more than $70 million in unfulfilled ord... More...
   $0 (08-03-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Delvin Mills

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and identity theft scheme targeting female victims in the Portland Metropolitan Area.

Delvin Mills, 30, was a member of the Felony Lane Gang, an interstate criminal organization based in Florida that traveled to locations throughout the U.S. to commit vehicle break-in and fraud sprees. The organization ... More...
   $0 (07-14-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. John Armas

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug trafficking.

John Armas, age 44, of Hillsboro operated a methamphetamine distribution cell as part of a larger drug trafficking network led by Victor Alvarez Farfan, 50, of Oregon City, Oregon. Armas would receive pounds of methamphetamine at his residence from Farfan or associates of Farfan and, in turn, tra... More...
   $0 (05-26-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Latanya Jenkins

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)

United States of America v. Royce Francis Speedis

Portland, Oregon criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with felony possession of a semi-automatic pistol and distributing methamphetamine.

Royce Francis Speedis, 34, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release.

In early March 2019, Royce Francis Speedis, age 34 and co-defendant Lavella Ruth Thompson, 28, also of Pendleton,... More...
   $0 (12-01-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Aumontae Wayne Smith

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to traffic drugs.

Aumontae Wayne Smith, 22, was Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl; Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl; Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime; and Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime... More...
   $0 (08-09-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Yuan Xie

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally trafficking in endangered turtles.

Yuan Xie, 30, was charged for his role in a scheme to purchase hundreds of endangered and vulnerable turtles in the U.S. and smuggle them via U.S. mail and commercial airline flights to China.

Beginning in at least May 2017 and continuing until October 2018, Xie ... More...
   $0 (05-09-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Marcus Raiford

Portland, Oregon bank fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Marcus Raiford, 22, who was charged with bank fraud for engaging in a scheme whereby he would recruit others, including minors, to deposit fraudulent checks into their personal bank accounts and withdraw cash.
According to court documents, beginning in August 2017 and continuing until at least September 2018, Raiford and others re... More...
   $0 (03-31-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Gene Leroy Thompson Jr. and Guojiao “Becky” Zhang

Eugene, OR - Conspiracy charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, Gene Leroy Thompson Jr., 54, and Guojiao “Becky” Zhang, 40, who were charged with one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods on Dec. 20. 2020.

The former U.S. Department of State employee and his spouse were sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic hundreds of thousands of dollars... More...
   $0 (03-19-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Sean Paul Wyrsch

Eugene, Oregon marijuana grower criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Sean Paul Wyrsch, age 32, who was charged with running an illicit Butane Honey Oil (BHO) extraction lab on rural Bend property,

According to court documents, Wyrsch and his brother created a vertical operation growing marijuana, manufacturing BHO and distributing it in other states for significant profit. On Ma... More...
   $0 (12-09-2020 - OR)

United States of America v. Jacob Genaro Robe

Eugene, Oregon conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana criminal defense lawyer represented Jacob Genaro Robe.

Jacob Genaro Robe, 31 years old, a Bend, Oregon resident was charged with running an illicit Butane Honey Oil (BHO) extraction lab on rural Bend property.

BHO extraction is a highly volatile and dangerous process that has resulted in explosions injuring and ki... More...
   $0 (10-29-2020 - OR)

United States of America v. Roderick Ariwite and Thomas Adams

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)

United States of America v. Robert J. Jesenick





Portland, OR - The United States of America charged Robert J. Jesenick with fraud and money laundering.

Jesenik, a former resident of West Linn, Oregon, is charged in a 32-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud,... More...
   $0 (08-19-2020 - OR)

United States of America v. Rogelio Gomez-Arias





Medford, OR The United States of America charged Rogelio Gomez-Arias, age 24, with drug trafficking.

According to court documents, in May 2018, southern Oregon law enforcement began investigating Gomez-Arias trafficking organization. I... More...
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United States of America v. Karanjit Singh Khatkar and Jagroop Singh Khatkar

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged Karanjit Singh Khatkar and Jagroop Singh Khatkar with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

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United States of America v. Xiao Dong Qin

Eugene, OR - The United States of America charged Xiao Dong Qin with conspiracy to smuggle endangered turtles from the United States.

A Chinese national pleaded guilty today for directing a scheme whereby hundreds of endangered and vulnerable turtles were purchased in the U.S. and smuggled via U.S. mail and commercial airline flights to China.

Xiao Dong Qin, 34, a resident of Sha... More...
   $0 (11-29-2019 - OR)

United States of America v. Jody Tremayne Wafer




Portland, OR - Houston Man Pleads Guilty for Leading Interstate Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy

Jody Tremayne Wafer, 30, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty for organizing and leading a conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Portland to Texas.

According to court documents, d... More...
   $0 (10-04-2019 - OR)

United States of America v. Michael James Friesen




Eugene, OR - Prineville Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Transfer and Unlawful Possession of a Machine Gun

Michael James Friesen, 33, of Prinev... More...
   $0 (08-18-2019 - OR)

United States of America v. Ulises Mayares




Portland, OR - Third Portland-Area Man Sentenced in Methamphetamine Trafficking Conspiracy

A third Portland-area man was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine into the Portland Metropolitan Area.

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United States of America v. Amadeo Lupercio-Quezada




Portland, OR - Jury Convicts Portland Drug Trafficker

A federal jury in Portland returned guilty verdicts against a Portland man who was accused of distributing large quantities of methamphetamine throughout Multnomah County, Oregon.

Amadeo Lupercio-Quezada, 39, was convicted ... More...
   $0 (05-19-2019 - OR)

United States of America v. Brian A. Oliver




Portland, OR - Former Aequitas Owner and Executive Vice President Pleads Guilty in Fraud and Money Laundering Conspiracy

Criminal conspiracy could have cost investors more than $600 million

Brian A. Oliver, a former owner and executive vice president of Aequitas Management, LL... More...
   $0 (04-20-2019 - OR)

United States of America v. Veraphon Phatanakitjumroon




Portland, OR - Oregon Restaurant Owner Sentenced to Prison in Connection With Immigration-Related Forced Labor Scheme
Paul Jumroon, also known as Veraphon Phatanakitjumroon, 55, formerly of Beaverton and Depoe Bay, Oregon, and a naturalized citizen originally from Thailand, was sentenced to... More...
   $0 (12-18-2018 - OR)

United States of America v. Jonathan Alan Ochoa

Medford, OR - Talent, Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Distribute Cocaine and Trading Cocaine for Firearms

Jonathan Alan Ochoa, 31, of Talent, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

According to court documents, between July and August 201... More...
   $0 (11-03-2018 - OR)

United States of America v. Martin J. Shain




Portland, OR - Seattle Man Given Federal Prison Sentence for Fraud Involving Former Oregon Department of Energy Employee

Martin J. Shain, 61, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and three years supervised release for engaging in a fraud scheme with a f... More...
   $0 (10-29-2018 - OR)

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