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United States of America v. Ricky Fontaine

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Trafficking

High Volume Central Oregon Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced to More than 11 Years in Federal Prison



A known, high-volume Central Oregon dru... More...    $0 (04-09-2025 - OR)

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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United States of America v. Michael David Anastasia

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Identity Theft and Evading Tax Debt Payments

Redmond Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Identity Theft and Evading Tax Debt Payments



A Redmond, Oregon man... More...    $0 (12-23-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Steven Shirley

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Manufacturing Marijuana and Falsifying Tax Returns

Josephine County Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegally Manufacturing Marijuana and Falsifying Tax Returns

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State of Oregon v. Mario Alberto Huerta-Contreras


Salem, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle (UUV), ORS 164.135.


To commit the crime of UUV, a person must knowingly take, operate, exercise control over or otherwise use another's vehicle, and be aware of and consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk that they do not have
[336 Or.App. 253] t... More...    $0 (11-20-2024 - OR)

State of Oregon v. James Gilbert Darcy, Jr.


Bend, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with resisting arrest in violation of ORS 162.315 and Harassment in violation of 166.065.... More...    $0 (11-27-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Clifford Court Uptegrove

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing at least ten bank robberies, including five while armed

Serial Bank Robber Sentenced to Federal Prison



A Washington State man who admitted t... More...    $0 (09-19-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Amigos Mexican Cuisine & Cantina LLC

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

Southern Oregon Restaurant Sentenced in Federal Court for Stealing Covid Relief Program Funds



On a 13-month period beginning in April 2020, Amigos Mexica... More...    $0 (08-16-2024 - 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. Jeremy Lee Peterson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting a Child

Oklahoma Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Child



An Oklahoma City man was sentenced to federal prison ... More...    $0 (07-12-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Yuriy Viktorovich Vasilchuk

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Fentanyl and Stealing Covid Relief Program Funds

Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl and Stealing Covid Relief Program Funds

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United States of America v. John Rocha

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer Nicholas Paul Granath represented the Defendant charged with COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program Fraud


Calaveras County Man Sentenced for C... More...    $0 (05-13-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Andrew K. Mitchell

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with depriving victims’ civil rights, obstructing justice


Former Columbus vice detective sentenced to 11 years in prison for depriving victims’ civil rights, obstructing justice



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United States of America v. Johnell Lee Cleveland

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Transporting a Victim Across State Lines for Illegal Sexual Activity


Tigard Repeat Offender Sentenced to Federal Prison for Transporting a Victim Across State Lines for Illegal Sexual Activity and Launderi... More...    $0 (05-07-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. William Thomas Gillespie

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics


Cave Junction Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics



A Cave Junction, Oregon m... More...    $0 (04-26-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. William Thomas Gillespie

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics .

Cave Junction Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics



A Cave Junction, Oregon man... More...    $0 (04-26-2024 - 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)

United States of America v. Juan Jessie Martinez-Gill; Blake Anthony Fulleton; Miguel Espana

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

Three Sentenced to Federal Prison for Klamath Basin Drug Trafficking



U.S. v. Martinez-Gil

According to court documents, between August 1, 2019, ... More...    $0 (03-15-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Juan Jessie Martinez-Gil; Blake Anthony Fulleton; Miguel Espana

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


Three Sentenced to Federal Prison for Klamath Basin Drug Trafficking



In separate criminal cases, three southern Oregon drug traffickers, including the leader of a Kl... More...    $0 (03-16-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Keandre Dshawn LaMarcus Brown

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murder Committed Amid Violent Robbery Spree.


Portland Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Murder Committed Amid Violent Robbery Spree



A Portland man was sentenced to 30 y... More...    $0 (03-12-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Michael James DeFrees

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Covid-Relief Funds, Laundering Proceeds.




A real estate developer and part-time resident of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to federal prison for fraudulen... More...    $0 (02-11-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Jonathan Ash Clark

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Selling Drugs to Portland High School Students.




A local man was sentenced to federal prison today for selling drugs to Portland high school students.

Jonathan Ash Clark, 43... More...    $0 (01-22-2024 - OR)

Alana Marie Souza, et al. v. Brick House, Inc.

Eugene, Oregon intellectual property lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on a 15 U.S.C. 1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act) violation theory.

15 U.S.C. 1125 provides:

(1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any... More...    $0 (12-10-2023 - OR)

Kemp Strickland v. Fay Servicing, L.L.C.

Portland, Oregon Consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on Fair Debt Collection Act violation theories.

"The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a federal law that protects consumers from abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices. It applies to third-party debt collectors, which are companies or individuals that collect debts on ... More...    $1 (10-20-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Tony Daniel Klein

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with depriving another of right by sexual assault,in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242 and false declaration before a court in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1623(a).

Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, Oregon, sexually assaulted nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Family, Oregon'... More...    $0 (10-18-2023 - OR)

Luz A. Nunez v. Brandon Jones, et al.

Pendleton, Oregon civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Blevins theory.


Plaintiff Luz Nunez brought this action against Defendants, five federal officers. Plaintiff alleges the federal officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights by unlawfully arresting her after a traffic stop. Plaintiff sues the federal officers in their individual capacities f... More...    $0 (09-27-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Heraclio Diaz-Sanchez, a/k/a Miguel Rafal Barajas-Magna

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

On December 19, 2022, Defendant, Heraclio Diaz-Sanchez, was driving northbound on I-5 from California. Near Salem, Oregon, Trooper Miller of the Oregon State Police noticed Mr. Diaz-Sanchez's car, a nondescript silver Honda Accord, with a California license p... More...    $0 (09-19-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Theodore Johnson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

In February 2017, Theodore Johnson, 62, a Portland resident, incorporated and began serving as the director of operations for Ten Penny International Housing Foundation, an Oregon-based non-profit organization. After Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in Marc... More...    $0 (07-06-2023 - 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)

State of Oregon v. Billy Lee Oatney, Jr.

Hillsboro, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.





Washington County Courthouse - Hillsboro, Oregon


Washington County Courthouse - Hillsboro, Oregon


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United States of America v. James Millegan

Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.

James Millegan, age 65, owned and operated J.W. Millegan, Inc., a small, commission-based investment advisory business that served clients in the Portland and Salem, Oregon metropolitan areas. From 1996 to 2016, the investment firm was Millegan’s only significant source of income.

Over a seven-... More...    $0 (11-14-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Justin Allen Cunningham

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)

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. Roshon Edward Thomas

Spokane, Washington criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funding for small businesses.

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. The CARES Act provided a number of programs through which eligible small businesses could request and obtain relief funding intende... More...    $0 (08-16-2022 - 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. Johnl Jackson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for transporting two teen girls across state lines, drugging and sexually abusing them, and selling them to other men for sex.

In 2016, John L. Jackson, age 34, met and befriended Keonte Desmond Scott, 23, also of Vancouver, after Scott’s release from prison. Jackson sold Scott cocaine and eventually began coaching h... More...    $0 (07-25-2022 - 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)

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