Oregon Fraud Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Daejon Labrayae Delenar Love <h2> </center>
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 Daejon Labrayae Love, age 35, from Sacramento, California, represented himself to be a wealthy real estate investor or a current or former NFL playes.... More...
$ (10-16-2026 - OR)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Karen Serobovich Vardanyan also known as Karl Lagerfeld also known as Maneeken </h2> </center>
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks and an extortion conspiracy targeting companies throughout the United States, including a technology company operating in Oregon. 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> Between Novembe... More...
$ (07-12-2026 - OR)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Olena Oblamska </h2> </center>
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with engaging in a Ponzi scheme. Reported By <a href=”https://www.morelaw.com/about” target=”_new”>Kent Morlan</a> Olena Oblamska, 42, Ukrainian national and her co-conspirators advertised Forsage as a decentralized matrix project based on network marketing and “smart contracts,” which are self-executing c... More...
$ (05-20-2026 - OR)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jahangeer Ali </h2> </center>
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud. From June 2025 through January 2026, Oregon Clinical Laboratory submitted more than $46 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare Advantage plans. However, no providers actually ordered testing services and none of the Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on the claims actually received testing servi... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - OR)<H2> United States of America v. Michael Malekzadeh
Eugene, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged or his role in a vast fraud conspiracy that cost customers more than $65 million in unfulfilled orders and defrauded financial institutions out of more than $15 million. Michael Malekzadeh, 42, a Eugene was found guilt. “This million-dollar fraud was fueled by the defendant’s insatiable greed and wreaked havoc on ... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - OR)<H2> United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea,
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 26-counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of device-making equipment, and aggravated identity theft. beginning in April 2025, Telescu and Manolea, along with others, conspired to use stolen Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) account informatio... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - OR)<H2> United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to steal more than $160,000 of benefits from low income and food insecure individuals and families. Alexandru Telescu, 29, and Aramis Manolea, 35, have been charged in a 26-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of devic... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Joseph Washington
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse.<br> <br> <img width="200" src="https://www.mcda.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Joseph-Washington.png"><br> <br> Joseph Washington was accused of striking his 20 month old child so hard in the stomach that it caused significant traumatic injuries to the victim, including a perforation of the small intestine.... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Clinton Wells </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Fraud and Identity Theft </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Bank Fraud and Identity Theft</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Between March 2019 and April 2022, Clinton Wells kn... More...
$0 (02-28-2025 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Samantha Miller </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Wire Fraud Conspiracy and Illegally Dispensing Animal Drugs </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Columbia County Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Wire Fraud Conspiracy and Illegally Dispensing Animal Drugs</h2></center></b></b> <... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Javier Antonio Banuelas Urueta </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Role in Debt Consolidation Scheme </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Washington State Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Debt Consolidation Scheme </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Vancouver, Washington man was ... More...
$0 (12-17-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Michael David Anastasia </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Identity Theft and Evading Tax Debt Payments </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Redmond Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Identity Theft and Evading Tax Debt Payments</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Redmond, Oregon man... More...
$0 (12-23-2024 - OR)M.S. v. Nour Eddine Mouktabis
<h2><br> Oregon City, Oregon family law lawyers represented the parties in a Family Abuse Protection Act (FAPA) restraining order action.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Petitioner obtained a Family Abuse Protection Act (FAPA) restraining order against respondent, her then-husband, in 2018. The restraining order came up for renewal a year later, the trial court dismissed it, a stay was issued pending appe... More...
$0 (11-20-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Mary Phoenix Nguyen </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Local Fraud Ring </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Portland Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Local Fraud Ring</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> In April 2022, special agents from Homeland Security Investigatio... More...
$0 (08-14-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Cody Joel Stewart </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> 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. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center>... More...
$0 (07-10-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Yuriy Viktorovich Vasilchuk </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Fentanyl and Stealing Covid Relief Program Funds </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Fentanyl and Stealing Covid Relief Program Funds </h2></center></b></b> </h2></c... More...
$0 (06-17-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. John Rocha </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=Nicholas&l=Granath&i=146744&z=97801" target="_new">Nicholas Paul Granath</a> represented the Defendant charged with COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program Fraud </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> Calaveras County Man Sentenced for C... More...
$0 (05-13-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Johnell Lee Cleveland </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Transporting a Victim Across State Lines for Illegal Sexual Activity </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> 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)<h1> United States of America v. Justin David Goulet </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Stealing Covid Relief Funds .</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b> Nevada Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stealing Covid Relief Funds </h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> A Nevada man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to fede... More...
$0 (04-04-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Richard Dunham </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Schemes to Defraud Simplot.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><br> <b><h2><center><i></b> Former Grass Seed Company Employee Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Schemes to Defraud Simplot</h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> <br> An Idaho man who formerly supe... More...
$0 (03-21-2024 - OR)<h1> United States of America v. Michael James DeFrees </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Covid-Relief Funds, Laundering Proceeds.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> </h3></center></i><br> <br> 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. Theodore Johnson
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.<br> <br> 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. Robert J. Jesenik, Andrew N. MacRitchie and Brian K. Rise
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.<br> <br> 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. James Millegan
Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Over a seven-ye... 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: <br> <br> 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. Roshon Edward Thomas
Spokane, Washington criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funding for small businesses.<br> <br> 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 inten... 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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 him... 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.<br> <br> 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. Lori E. Deveny
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.<br> <br> Lori E. Deveny, 56, pleaded guilty to mail, bank, and wire fraud; aggravated identity theft; money laundering; and filing a false tax return.<br> <br> According to court documents, between April 2011 and May 2019, Deven... More...
$0 (06-27-2022 - OR)United States of America v. Thomas Gerard Mautone
Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.<br> <br> 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, of... More...
$0 (05-13-2022 - OR)United States of America v. Alireza Zamanizadeh, aka Ali Zamani
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.<br> <br> <br> 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)United States of America v. Robert Loren Finanders
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with stealing financial and identification documents from more than 100 people in and around Portland.<br> <br> <br> Between April 2019 and April 2020, Robert Loren Finanders, age 42, stole financial and identification documents from dozens of people in the Portland area with the intent to steal money from them and from local... More...
$0 (03-09-2022 - OR)United States of America v. Latanya Jenkins
Portland, Oregon criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.<br> <br> Latanya Jenkins, 51, was charged with:<br> <br> 18:1349 Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud<br> (1) <br> 18:1344 BANK FRAUD<br> (2-8) <br> 18:1028A Aggravated Identity Theft<br> (9-15) <br> 18:1028A Aggravated Identity Theft<br> (16) <br> 18:1028A Aggravated Identity Theft<br... More...
$0 (02-01-2022 - OR)United States of America v. Andrew Aaron Lloyd
Eugene Oregon, criminal defense attorney represented Andrew Aaron Lloyd charged with <br> fraud by submitting false CARES Act loan applications.<br> <br> 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 o... More...
$0 (01-06-2022 - OR)United States of America v. Matthew Hogan Peters
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion and submitting false and health care fraud.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> "F... More...
$0 (12-10-2021 - OR)United States of America v. Eric Wade Lysne
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank and wire fraud.<br> <br> 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)United States of America v. Damian O. Barrett
Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax fraud.<br> <br> Damian O. Barrett, 40, was indicted for perpetrating a multi-year fraud scheme wherein he filed 745 false tax returns in 19 different states.<br> <br> "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 pre... More...
$0 (10-04-2021 - OR)United States of America v. Dwayne Leroy Daan
Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of mail.<br> <br> Dwayne Leroy Daan, 42, was indicted for stealing hundreds of pieces of residential mail throughout the Portland Metropolitan Area and using the personal identity of one local resident to purchase a luxury car.<br> <br> According to court documents, between February and May 2020, Daan stole more than 80... More...
$0 (09-28-2021 - OR)United States of America v. Jeremy Clawson
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.<br> <br> Jeremy Clawson, 32, was charged with theft of public money in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641.<br> <br> "Recent federal relief programs, like those authorized by the CARES Act, were designed to he... More...
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