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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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 (“CARESâ€�) 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)

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)

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)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with perpetrating a scheme to defraud her clients and use the proceeds to pay for personal expenses.

Lori E. Deveny, 56, pleaded guilty to mail, bank, and wire fraud; aggravated identity theft; money laundering; and filing a false tax return.

According to court documents, between April 2011 and May 2019, Deven... More...    $0 (06-27-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Thomas Gerard Mautone, 43, formerly of Newark, New Jersey, was one of five individuals who together perpetrated a monthslong scheme to convince an elderly man to invest $1 million in a fraudulent high-yield international investment scheme. In July 2015, one of Mautone’s co-defendants, Jared Mack, 46, ... More...    $0 (05-13-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with using a residential property he did not own as collateral for obtaining a bank loan worth more than $316,000.


On or about February 17, 2017, Alireza Zamanizadeh, aka Ali Zamani, 63, filed a quitclaim deed in Deschutes County, transferring a residential property in Bend, Oregon to his business for one dollar w... More...    $0 (05-10-2022 - OR)

Eugene Oregon, criminal defense attorney represented Andrew Aaron Lloyd charged with
fraud by submitting false CARES Act loan applications.

Andrew Aaron Lloyd, 51, of Lebanon, Oregon, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. Lloyd was also ordered to pay more than $4 million in restitution and forfeit 25 properties and more than 15,000 shares... More...    $0 (01-06-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion and submitting false and health care fraud.

Matthew Hogan Peters, 38, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. Peters was also ordered to pay more than $3,441,263 million in restitution to the IRS, in addition to back taxes Peters has already paid.

... More...    $0 (12-10-2021 - OR)

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

In April 2020, Eric Wade Lysne, age 35, devised and perpetrated a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) and various financial institutions by fraudulently applying for and obtaining Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans using fals... More...    $0 (11-07-2021 - Or)

Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax fraud.

Damian O. Barrett, 40, was indicted for perpetrating a multi-year fraud scheme wherein he filed 745 false tax returns in 19 different states.

“With tax filing season right around the corner, it is important that all Americans who choose to hire a tax preparation professional take the necessary p... More...    $0 (10-04-2021 - OR)

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

Kent Jensen, 58, a former certified public accountant and former chief financial officer of a McMinnville, Oregon company was sentenced to federal prison today for evading $99,000 in personal income taxes.

According to court documents, in 2014 and 2015, Jenson, who also previously worked as a... More...    $0 (07-29-2021 - OR)

Medford, Oregon mailing threatening communications charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kelly Michael Burns, age 71, who was charged with eight counts of mailing threatening communications.

According to court documents, on or about December 19, 2019, Burns mailed four Christmas cards, postmarked in Medford, to former coworkers containing a white powder pesticide later id... More...    $0 (02-09-2021 - 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 taxation criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Elizabeth Munoz, who was charged with preparing and filing false and fraudulent tax returns for clients and for herself.

Defendant, age 37, was charged with 13 counts of preparing and filing false income tax returns for clients and to four counts of filing false income tax returns for herself.

According to ... More...    $0 (12-19-2020 - OR)

Portland, Oregon tax law criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with evading payment of employment taxes and personal income taxes.

Thomas A. Rennie, Age 58, of Battle Ground, Washington, and formerly of Portland, Oregon, operated a car detailing business in Portland for 28 years, and a dog training business in Washington since 2015. Rennie knowingly and intentionally eva... More...    $0 (11-19-2020 - 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)

Eugene, OR - The United States of America charged Erik J. Hass with fraud.

A Corvallis, Oregon, man was charged with defrauding members of his church, coworkers, and others by soliciting investments under the false pretense of supporting Christian missionaries and organizations.

A federal grand jury in Eugene has returned an 8-count indictment charging Erik J. Hass, 50, with wire... More...    $0 (06-18-2020 - OR)