Utah False Pretense Law
 

United States of America v. Radimiro Jimenez-Jimenez

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after removal.

8 U.S.C. 1325, also known as the "Improper Entry by Alien" law, makes it a crime for an alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States at a time or place not designated by immigration officers. It also covers eluding inspection by immigration officials or entering using... More...
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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen

Salt Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles, California, and Mimai, Florida lawyers represented the defedant charged with attempt and conspriacy to commit mail fraud.

this case concerned an alleged conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering operation orchestrated from 2012 to 2018 by Mr. Dermen, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston (Jacob Kingston’s brother), and other co-conspirators. Specifically, Mr. ... More...
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Untied States of America v. Sequoia Corbitt


Salt Lake City, Utah conspiracy to commit bank fraud criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.


18 U.S.C. 1349: Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense under this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.

18 U.S.C. 1344: Whoever k... More...
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United States of America v. Hillary Brown

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Disability Benefits

Pilates Instructor Sentenced After Fraudulently Obtaining Disability Benefits



Hillary Brown, 41, of Taylors... More...
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United States of America v. Mason Warr


Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.



CEO Mason Warr, 37, of Vineyard, and managing partner Zachary Bassett, 39, of Provo, as well as their company, which does business under the name 1099 Tax Pros, were accused of engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud and filing f... More...
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United States of America v. Gordon Hunter Pedersen

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Selling Unproven COVID-19 Cure

Fake Doctor Selling Unproven COVID-19 Cure is Sentenced to 36 Months



A United States District Court Judge sentenced a... More...
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United States of America v. Clinton Chukudi Uchendu

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Romance Scammer

Convicted Romance Scammer Sentenced to 28 Months’ Imprisonment



Clinton Chukudi Uchendu, 26, of Dunwoody, GA, was sentenced to over t... More...
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United States of America v. Bradford Leland Fishback

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fraudulently Receiving Over $685,000 in COVID-Relief Funds


St. George Businessman Sentenced to 29 Months’ Imprisonment for Fraudulently Receiving Over $685,000 in COVID-Relief Funds

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United States of America v. Jose Manuel Barbosa-Torres

Salt Lake City, Utah Criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Purchase Multiple Rifles Intended for Mexico..


West Valley Man Sentenced to 27 Months’ Imprisonment After Admitting to Purchasing or Attempting to Purchase Multiple Rifles Intended for Mexico... More...    $0 (02-26-2024 - UT)

STATE OF UTAH v. ALAVINA FUNGAIHEA FLORREICH

From 1998 to 2009, Alavina Florreich was the nanny for
Alex and his siblings. Florreich is a Tongan immigrant, and Alex
and his siblings were the homeschooled children of a Jewish
rabbi.
¶3 When Alex was eight years old, Florreich was watching a
movie with Alex and his younger siblings one day when Alex
began giving her a shoulder massage. While doing so, Alex
s... More...
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State of Utah v. David Hawkins

Salt Lake City, Utah defendant charged with sexually assaulting his sons ages 9 and 13.

In November 2006, 45-year-old David Hawkins was charged with sexually assaulting two of his sons, ages 9 and 13, in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Hawkins claimed the allegations were false and the result of pressure from his ex-wife to drive the boys away from their father but he did not testify.More...
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United States of America v. Crystal A. Huang

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud.

From February 2015 through February 2020, Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, Utah, offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises and information to potential investors. In June, Ms. Huang admitted that she devised a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtai... More...
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United States of America v. Allison Marie Baver

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of making false statements designed to influence a bank, one count of money laundering, and one count of contempt.

Allison Marie Baver, 42, of Taylorsville, Utah, submitted eight fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications for her company, Allison Baver Entertainment LLC (ABE). P... More...
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United States of America v. Chris E. McCormick

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and money laundering.

In May 2020, in the District of Utah and elsewhere, Chris E. McCormick, 64, of Cottonwood Heights, illegally made false representations to Mountain America Credit Union to obtain approximately $266,000 in PP... More...
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United States of America v. Crystal A. Huang

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with devising a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtain money and property, under false pretenses, to benefit her company, ProSky Inc.

Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, admitted she knowingly offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises to potential investors. From February 20... More...
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United States of America v. Nicholas Frank Sciotto and Kyle Blake Burbage

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers representing Defendants charged with health care fraud.

Nicholas Frank Sciotto, 32, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Kyle Blake Burbage, 32, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, manufactured, sold, and distributed at least 120,000 counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination record cards across the country between March 2021 through September 2021. Sciotto, a form... More...
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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, Rachel Kingston, and Sally Kingston

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government.

From 2010 to 2018, Lev Aslan Dermen, age 56, conspired with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, their mother, Rachel Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s wife, Sally Kingston, and others, to fraudulently claim more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. The IRS ultimat... More...
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United States of America v. David Oguoguo Okeke

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering ring that aided and abetted the defrauding of more than a hundred victims, primarily widows.





Federal Courthouse - Salt Lake City, Utah


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United States of America v. Sergio Sosa

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect his tax debt.




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United States of America v. Nan Ma

St. George, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with failing to file financial reports with the United States Treasury after bringing currency in excess of $10,000 back into the United States from China.

Nam Ma, age 39, of Washington, Utah failed to report with the United States Treasury after bringing currency in excess of $10,000 back into the United States from ... More...
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United States of America v. Derald Wilford Geddes

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, tax evasion and engaging in a corrupt endeavor.

Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, was a dentist who owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC. From approximately 1998 through 2014, Geddes took numerous steps to evade approximately $1.8 million in back federal income taxes that he owed.... More...
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United States of America v. Eric Singleton

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bankruptcy fraud.

Attorney Eric Singleton, 56, of Salt Lake City, was indicted for his role in a bankruptcy fraud scheme.

In the plea agreement, Singleton admitted that, from May of 2016 until September of 2017, he made false statements to the United States Bankruptcy Court, the bankruptcy trustee, a... More...
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United States of America v. Eric Singleton

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with bankruptcy fraud.

Attorney Eric Singleton, 56, of Salt Lake City, was charged for his role in a bankruptcy fraud scheme.

In the plea agreement, Singleton admitted that, from May of 2016 until September of 2017, he made false statements to the United States Bankruptcy Court, the bankruptcy trustee, ... More...
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United States of America v. Ryan R. West

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Ryan R. West, 45, of Logan, was charged with defrauding numerous individuals involved in his business venture investment schemes. West previously pled guilty in August of 2021 to four counts of wire fraud connected to his fraudulent schemes. In total, West defrauded his victims of a cumulative am... More...
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United States of America v. Nathan Pehrson

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with three counts related to fraudulently obtaining and tampering with the pain killing narcotic hydromorphone, a powerful schedule II opioid drug that is used to treat patients with moderate to severe pain.

During Pehrson’s employment as a nurse at an Intermountain Healthcare facility on a surgical and trauma wa... More...
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United States of America ex rel. Mark Christopher Tracy v. Emigration Improvement District, et al.

Salt Lake City, Utah qui tam lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. 3729) violation theory.... More...    $0 (07-19-2021 - UT)

Conrad Truman v. Orem City, et al.

Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City
police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used
against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the
murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman’s complaint, the prosecution
knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possib... More...
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United States of America v. Vivint Smart Homes, Inc.

Salt Lake City, Utah:

Vivint Smart Home Inc. sells “smart” home security and monitoring systems, largely via a sales force that sells door-to-door. The complaint alleges that Vivint failed to implement an Identity Theft Prevention Program, allowing its sales representatives to obtain credit reports of unsuspecting consumers without the consumers’ knowledge or consent, and unfairly ... More...
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United States of America v. John Holdaway

Salt Lake City, Utah tax fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, John Holdaway, who was charged with making and subscribing a false tax return. ... More...    $0 (04-03-2021 - UT)

United States of America v. Kurt Bauer

St. George, Utah wire fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Dedandant, Kurt Bauer, age 57, who was charged with three counts of wire fraud and two counts of falsely impersonating U.S. government employees in connection with an advanced-fee scheme.

Between 2011 and 2020, Bauer created a fraudulent scheme where he told his victims that he was entitled to hundreds of millions of d... More...
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Andrew Perrong v. Vivint Smart Homes, Inc., et al.

Salt Lake City, UT - Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) that Vivint employees made civil litigation lawyers represented Vivint Smart Home Inc. which was accused of false statements to secure financing for customers’ purchases of Vivint’s home monitoring products.

Vivint is a provider of smart home monitoring services and frequently obtains new customers through door-to-door sales by Vi... More...
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United States of America v. Vivant Smart Home, Inc.

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Vivant Smart Home, Inc., which was alleged to have made false statements under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) that Vivint employees made false statements to secure financing for customers’ purchases of Vivint’s home monitoring products, the Justice Department announced today. FIRREA imp... More...    $0 (01-07-2021 - UT)

United States of America v. Chiropractor Matthew Wood and Life Health Medical Center (LHMC)

Salt Lake City, Utah False Claims Act lawyer represented defendant who improperly billed Medicare for the use of electro-acupuncture device. From November 3, 2018 through February 28, 2020, Dr. Wood and LHMC billed Medicare for an implantable neurostimulator device, a device that typically requires a surgical procedure and is performed by a surgeon in an operating room.

STIVAX is a percu... More...
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United States of America v. Christopher D. Hales

Salt Lake City, Utah wire fraud and money laundering crime criminal defense lawyer represented defendant.

Christopher D. Hales, 39, of Lehi was charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in connection with a financial fraud scheme he and other co-conspirators devised while Hales was in a halfway house serving a sentence for another federal fraud case. The scheme r... More...
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United States of America v. Timothy Andrew Nemeckay





Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Timothy Andrew Nemeckay, age 60, with securities fraud, making false statements to the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with an alleged fraud scheme.

A... More...
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United States of America v. Denise Gunderson Rust





Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Denise Gunderson Rust fraud and money laundering.

Denise Gunderson Rust, one of three individuals charged in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud investors by inducing them to ... More...
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United States of America v. Frank Gene Powell

St. George, UT - The United States of America charged Frank Gene Powell with elder fraud.





Frank Gene Powell, age 51, of Hurricane, Utah, the lead defendant in a significant federal elder fraud case targeting an 80-year-old widow in Washington, Utah, will se... More...
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United States of America v. Frank Gene Powell





St. George, UT - The United States of America charged Frank Gene Powell with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, two counts of destruction of records in a federal investigation, concealment of a document or object in an attempt to impair the objects ... More...
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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Lev Aslan Dermen with conspiracy to wrongfully claim renewable fuel tax credits.

A federal jury in Salt Lake City convicted California businessman Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, of criminal charges Monday afternoon relating to a $1 billion renewable fuel tax credit fraud scheme.

The convictions were an... More...
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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen, a/k/a Levon Termendzhyan





Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Lev Aslan Dermen, a/k/a Levon Termendzhyan with renewable tax credit fraud.

A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, convicted California businessman Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhy... More...
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