Pennsylvania Forfeiture Law

<h2> <center> United States of America v. Daryl F. Heller </h2> <center>

Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud in violation of 15 U.S.C. 78j(b) and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343. 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> Daryl F. Heller, 56, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, controlled and was the majorit... More...

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<h2> <center> United States of America v. William D. Brenner </h2> </center>

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 and unlawful monetary transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1957. 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> William D. Brenner, age 62, allegedly defrauded an elderly vic... More...

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Miguel J. Morris

Lancaster, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with h one count each of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of drug paraphernalia.<br> <br> The Commonwealth charged Defendant with one count each of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances, tampering with physical evidence, and po... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Jenny Espinal Tejada </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Philadelphia Store Owner Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Defrauding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program</h2></center></b></b> </h2></... More...

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United States of America v. Ayinda Harper and Aqudre Quailes

Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with being a felons in possession of a firearms.<br> <br> Defendants were indicted for felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> The District Court acknowledged that Quailes and Harper "may have violated the conditions of [their] state parole by possessing the firearm,” but it reasoned that this "does not prove... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Zachkey James </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with impersonation of a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier, unlawful possession of three USPS Arrow Keys, mail theft, and possession of stolen mail. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Defendant Impersonated a Mail Carrier, Possessed ... More...

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dominic D. Haynes

<h2><br> Reading, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented bail bondsman in a forfeiture hearing<br> <br> <br> Defendant Dominic Haynes had open criminal dockets or was otherwise wanted in multiple counties in Pennsylvania, including Montgomery County, Luzerne County, Dauphin County, Allegheny County, and Berks County as well as the state of New Jersey. In Berks County, he was charged with... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Walter Eiseman </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Accepting Bribes from Developer </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former City of Pittsburgh Building Inspector Sentenced for Accepting Bribes from Developer</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A resident of Pittsbur... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. John Dougherty </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Philadelphia, PA, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Public Corruption, Embezzlement Convictions </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Local 98 Business Manager John Dougherty Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Public Corruption, Embezzlement Convictions </h2></center></b></b> </h2... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. James P. Abrams </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraud, Identity Theft, Money Laundering, And Obstruction Of Justice Offenses </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> CEO Of Clean Energy Company Sentenced To 72 Months' Imprisonment For Fraud, Identity Theft, Money Laundering, And Obstruct... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. James Abrams </h1>

<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Scranton, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraud, Identity Theft, Money Laundering, And Obstruction Of Justice Offenses </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> CEO Of Clean Energy Company Sentenced To 72 Months' Imprisonment For Fraud, Identity Theft, Money Laundering, And Obstruct... More...

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United States of America v. Bill Omar Carrasquillo

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with criminal copyright infringement scheme.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Philadelphia_PA_FED.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<br> <P><br> <a... More...

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United States of America v. Bryce Richard Stanger and Tanya Jaynene Stranger

Williamsport, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs. <br> <br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/pennslyvania/news/williamsport/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Williamsport</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> <br> In February 2022, Bryce Stanger ("B... More...

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United States of America v. Spivack, Inc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyers represented party accused of illegally dispensing opioids.<br> <br> Philadelphia-based Spivack, Inc., previously operating under the name Verree Pharmacy, and owner-pharmacist Mitchell Spivack, agreed to pay over $4 million to resolve allegations that they engaged in a years-long practice of illegally dispensing opioids and other controlled subst... More...

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United States of America v. Mitchell Spivack

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally dispensing controlled drugs.<br> <br> Philadelphia-based Spivack, Inc., previously operating under the name Verree Pharmacy, and owner-pharmacist Mitchell Spivack, to resolve allegations that they engaged in a years-long practice of illegally dispensing opioids and other controlled substances, and systemati... More...

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United States of America v. Frances Marie Eddings and Jude Denis

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with accessing a computer without permission for for pecuniary gain from a non-profit charity organization.<br> <br> In September 2019, Frances Marie Eddings, 68, of Orlando, FL, and Jude Denis, 54, of Wyncote, PA, were charged with one count of conspiracy, three counts of unauthorized access to a computer, and aidin... More...

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United States of America v. M. M

<center><h3><font color="red"><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented <br> defendant with one count of unlawful distribution of fentanyl resulting in death charge. </h3></font></b></i></center></font><br> <br> <center><b><h3> I.<br> A. Factual History </center></b></h3><br> <br> In 2017, a man was found dead on the bathroom floor <br> of his grandpa... More...

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United States of America v. James Davis

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charges. </h2></font></i></center><br> <br> Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. ("Reach”), an advertising <br> company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. ("RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business. <br> Since 1989, Reach publishe... More...

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United States of America v. Paris Church

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with <br> his involvement as a supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy charges. </h2></font></i></center><br> <br> Church was charged in three different indictments for his involvement as a <br> supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy.2<br> Three jury trials resulted in his ... More...

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United States of America v. Terry Brown

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged for unlawfully distributing controlled drugs.<br> <br> Terry Brown, a resident of Wexford, Pennsylvania owned and operated Cherry Way, a Suboxone clinic, located in Bridgeville PA, and Foster was a medical director at Cherry Way. Brown and Foster conspired together to create and submit unlawful prescriptions for Suboxo... More...

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United States of America v. James Davis

<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. ("Reach”), an advertising <br> company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. ("RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business. <br> Since 1989, R... More...

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United States of America v. Paris Church also known as PAY MAY, also known as PAY

<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with three different indictments for his involvement as a supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Church was charged in three different indictments for his involvement as a <br> supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy.2<br... More...

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES DAVIS

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. ("Reach”), an advertising <br> company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. ("RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business. <br> Since 1989, Reach pu... More...

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES E. HOCKER

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a securities fraud charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> For years, Hocker worked as a licensed insurance agent. Broadening his services, <br> he began soliciting contributions to "investment vehicles.” (App. at 76.) Except he did not <br> hold any licenses in the securities industr... More...

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United States of America v. Mehran David Kohanbash, oseph Kohan and Nima Rodefshalom

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania health care fraud criminal defense lawyers represented defendants, Mehran David Kohanbash, oseph Kohan and Nima Rodefshalom, who were charged with healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statutes.<br> <br> Brothers Mehran David Kohanbash, and Joseph Kohan and their nephew, Nima Rodefshalom, entered pleas of guilty... More...

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United States of America v. Samuel T. Johnson and Daphne Debrosse

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<br> <br> A couple from Miami, Florida, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<br> <br> The two-count Indictment, returned on September 23, 202... More...

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United States of America v. Branden Coluccio

Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Branden Coluccio with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.<br> <br> Branden Coluccio, 32, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. As part of his sentence, he was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,070,157, forfeiture in the amount of $110,000, and a... More...

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United States of America v. Lee D. Weiss

<center><h1><p style="border:3px; border-style:solid; border-color:#FF0000; padding:<br> 0em;"><a href="http://www.callmorelaw.com/" target="_new">MoreLaw Receptionists</a></br><font Color="Red">VOIP Phone and Virtual Receptionist Services<br> Call 918-582-6422 Today<br> </font></h1><P></center> <br> <br> Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Lee D. Weiss with wire and mail fraud... More...

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United States of America v. Scott Capps

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Philadelphia, PA - Former Vanguard Employee Sentenced to Four Years for Fraud Scheme<br> <br> Scott Capps, 48, of Coatesville, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 48 months’ incarceration, three years’ supervised release, restitution of $2,137,580 and forfeiture of $648,600 by United St... More...

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United States of America v. Kerry Wylie

<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/pa-m/locations/scranton.jpg"><br> </center><br> Scranton, PA - Luzerne County Woman Guilty Of “Bath Salts” Conspiracy<br> <br> SCRANTON—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kerry Wylie, age 27, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on May 8, 2019, before Seni... More...

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United States of America v. David M. Dunham, Jr.

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Philadelphia, PA - Green Energy Fraudster Convicted at Trial for Scamming Multiple Federal Agencies and his Customers<br> <br> A federal jury in Reading, Pennsylvania, convicted David M. Dunham Jr. of the following crimes: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and defraud the United States;... More...

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United States of America v. James Davis

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Business Man Sentenced to Prison for Honest Services Fraud, Tax Crimes, and Conspiracy<br> <br> James Davis, the former vendor who operated Sheriff Sales for the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to 121 months’ imprisonment, and ordered t... More...

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CHIAO FANG KU, AKA Chiao Fang Ronan, AKA Anna Ronan <p>v.<p> ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Ku is a native and citizen of Taiwan. She was admitted to the United States in 1997 and ... More...

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Chiao Fang Ku v. Attorney General United States of America

<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> Seeking to remain in this country, Chiao Fang Ku petitions for review of a final ord... More...

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United States of America v. Intercept Corporation, d/b/a "Intercept EFT"

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Philadelphia, PA - Intercept Corp., Payment Processor for Illegal Payday Loans is Ordered to Forfeit Nearly $6 Million<br> <br> Intercept Corporation, d/b/a “Intercept EFT” (“Intercept”), was placed on two years’ probation and ordered to forfeit $5,928,893 in criminal procee... More...

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United States of America v. Chad Stoner

Harrisburg, PA - Former Rite Aid Vice President Pleads Guilty In $5.7 Million Vendor Kick-Back Scheme <br> <center><br> <img width="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oFRU14j11P4/UXaA5_PnqrI/AAAAAAAABYg/9dI3Q6mQx4c/s1600/MD+PA+Harrisburg.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> James W. Pilsner, age 60, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, former Vice President of Rite Aid, pleaded guilty today before United States ... More...

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Carol Lee Walker v. Senior Deputy Brian T. Coffey

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paep.uscourts.gov/sites/paep/files/styles/gallery_slider_full/public/phila1_0.jpg?itok=2YIDLoh-"><br> </center><br> Appellant Carol Lee Walker commenced this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She alleges that Appellees—a prosecutor and a special agent employed by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (OAG)—violated her Fourth Amendment righ... More...

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United States of America v. Dr. Michael Cash

Pittsburgh, PA - Suboxone Clinic Doctor Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Dispensing Controlled Substances, Health Care Fraud<br> <br> A prescribing physician with SKS Associates, an opioid treatment facility located in Johnstown, PA, guilty in federal court to charges of dispense and distribution of controlled substances, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and health care fraud,.<br> <br> D... More...

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Nadine Pellegrino and Harry Waldman v. T.S.A., Nuyriah Abdul-Malik, Laura Labbee, and Denice Kissinger

In Vanderklok v. United States, 868 F.3d 189 (3d Cir.<br> 2017), we declined to imply a Bivens cause of action against<br> airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security<br> Administration (TSA) in part because they “typically are not<br> law enforcement officers and do not act as such.” Id. at 208.<br> We now must decide a related question that we anticipated, but<br> did not resol... More...

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United States of America v. Sean Jelen

Scranton, NJ - Former CEO Of Scranton Federal Credit Union Sentenced To 70 Months’ Imprisonment<br> <br> United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Sean Jelen, age 35, of Breezy Point, NY, to 70 months’ imprisonment and four years of supervised release on January 31, 2018, for bank fraud and attempted bank fraud offenses.<br> <br> According to United States Attorney David ... More...

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