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United States of America v. Washington Trust Company
Providence, Rhode Island civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant who was accused of wrongfully engaging in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Rhode Island. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race, colo... More... ( 09-27-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Juan Hicks
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud. The former IT Director of a Warwick, RI, metals fabrication and supply company who used his purchasing authority to devise and execute a decade-long fraud scheme that bilked his employer out of more than $1M. Juan Hicks, 47, of New Bedford, MA, pleaded guilty in March 2023 to a charge ... More... ( 08-31-2023 - RI) |
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Tiffany Briere v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA.
Providence, Rhode Island insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on breach of contract theories. This matter involved an insurance coverage dispute for underinsured motorist benefits.... More... ( 08-11-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Zeus Lines Management S.A., (Zeus)
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with environmental crimes aboard a Rhode Island bound oil tanker. Zeus Lines Management S.A., (Zeus) owner/operator of the Gallissas, was sentenced by United States District Judge Mary S. McElroy to pay a total monetary penalty of $2.25 million, consisting of a fine of $1,687,500 and a community service payment... More... ( 08-08-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Leonardo Durango
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently collecting more than $230,000 in Social Security Administration (SAA) disability benefits in his own name, all the while continuing to work using another person’s identity. Leonardo Durango, 62, admitted that he used the name of that same person, without his knowledge, to fraudulently colle... More... ( 07-21-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Dennis Ferreira
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with intentionally misleading officials as to the origin and the potential contaminant composition of dozens of truckloads of railroad ballast (stone) and dirt imported for a project. Dennis Ferreira, a former employee of Barletta Heavy Division, Inc., a Massachusetts construction company responsible for the co... More... ( 06-20-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Walter Garbecki
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being illegally in possession of firearms and parts to make – and stockpile – a collection of un-serialized, privately made firearms, also known as “ghost guns,” along with silencers and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Walter Garbecki, 38, admitted that, between March and July 2022, when he was... More... ( 06-08-2023 - RI) |
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Tammy Sisson v. Dr. Alfredo Gil
Providence, Rhode Island personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a medical malpractice negligence theory. Tammy Sisson sued Dr. Alfredo Gill claiming that Dr. Gill negligently misidentitied anatomy during a 2017 procedure at Women and Infants Hospital that left her with significant scarring and at risk of future injury to a kidney. ... More... ( 05-30-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Estefano J. Lobo
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with trafficking crack cocaine and felony firearm possession. Estefano J. Lobo, 31, who since 2010 has been convicted of felony crimes on eight separate occasions, admitted to a ninth felony before a federal judge. Lobo admitted that, in March 2022, less than a year after leaving federal prison to begin servi... More... ( 05-12-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Francis Scott
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with coercing and sexually assaulting two minor females that he recorded and retained on his cell phone. In pleading guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography, Francis Scott, 42, admitted that on February 14, 2017, while falsely posing as a ride-shar... More... ( 03-31-2023 - RI) |
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Pedro Alvarez, Jr. v. Stephen J. Lynch, et al.
Providence, Rhode Island civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued defendants claiming that his constitutional rights were violated. The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available. ... More... ( 03-30-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Francis Scott
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with coercing and sexually assaulting two minor females which he records on his cell phone. Federal Courthouse - Pro... More... ( 03-23-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Rashaad Hill
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently applied for over $90,000 in pandemic-relief unemployment benefits, and who actually received over $30,000 of those benefits, some of which he boasted that he used to purchase firearms, an iPhone and marijuana. ... More... ( 03-10-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Bryan Valdez-Espinosa, Diego A. Alarcon, and Jason Hatcher
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with engaging in "grandparent scam" conspiracies. Federal Courthouse - Providence, Rhode Island ... More... ( 02-27-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Rafael Fleury Monoz
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting as a member of a criminal drug conspiracy when he attempted to retrieve U.S. Priority Mail packages containing cocaine intended for later distribution. MoreLaw Legal News For Provide... More... ( 01-26-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Jose Manuel Rosario-Mella, a/k/a Luis Cortes
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm. MoreLaw Legal News For Providence ... More... ( 01-10-2023 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Juliana Martins
Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements when applying for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgage, a Small Business Association (SBA) loan, and for fraudulently applying for government-funded COVID unemployment benefits. ... More... ( 12-21-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Russell C. Trafford
Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple child pornography felonies. MoreLaw Legal News For Providence Russell C. Trafford, 55, conspired with others to produce child po... More... ( 12-08-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Roldy Francosis
Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a). A Providence man with nine previous criminal convictions, including convictions on firearms, fraud, aggravated identity theft, and domestic assault charges, was sentenced today to nearly five years in federal prison for robbing a downtown Providence bank in April... More... ( 11-28-2022 - RI) |
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Brown & Howard Yacht Marina, LLV v. Evanston Insurance Company
Providence, Rhode Island insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff, which sued Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory. Bad Faith by Kent Morlan ... More... ( 11-10-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Deeshawn Gadson
Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.Deeshawn Gadson, 32, fraudulently field an application for unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, and received more than $7,000 in ill-gotten payments.In April 2020, Gadson, who lived a... More... ( 11-09-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Sean M. Francis
Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of more than 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine and two guns. Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation in November 2019 by members of the Rhode Island FBI Safe Streets Task Force, the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, and the Warwick Police Department det... More... ( 10-27-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Jamel Newman
Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, theft of government money, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited personal. Motion to suppress filed by Defendant.... More... ( 10-04-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Luiyi Taveras-Garcia
Providence, Rhode Island criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, having been charged for his role in a scheme that defrauded Home Depot out of approximately $600,000 in tools and building supplies. Luiyi Taveras-Garcia, 35, participated in a wide-ranging scheme that uses stolen or fraudulently created business credit accounts to purchase more th... More... ( 09-07-2022 - RI) |
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United States of America v. Dominique Golden
Providence, Rhode Island criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy that scammed unsuspecting and trusting victims of more than $2.6 million dollars through internet-based “romance scams,” and that she personally collected more than $1.26 million dollars in cash, checks, money orders, and wire transfers from individuals from across the United States, and deposited the funds... More... ( 09-01-2022 - RI) |