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United States v. Angela Toma and Peter Valente
Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted conspiracy to commit fraud. Peter Valente, and his then wife, Angela Toma, were indicted and charged with offenses involving a scheme to defraud the SBA. Using inactive companies to perpetrate the fraud, Valente and Toma successfully defrauded the SBA and other lenders of over $2,600,000. On June 30, 2026, Toma pleaded guilty Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, and she is awaiting sentencing. On August 19
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Todd Allen Stafford
Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in exual activity with a 15-year-old boy (“M.V.”) whom he met through an online dating app. in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2422. On April 28, 2023, Todd Stafford and minor male M.V. began corresponding on an online hookup and dating website. At the time, Mr. Stafford was 59. M.V.’s dating profile listed his age as 18, but in reality he was 15. According to M.V., he listed his age as 18 because tha
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Condat Corporation
Detroit, Michigan civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for which Condat was ineligible. In January 2021, Condat Corporation, a Michigan company that produces a range of industrial lubricants, obtained a second draw PPP loan for $1,000,000. At the time of its loan application, Condat was a subsidiary of Condat SA,
View VerdictPeople of the State of Michigan v. Cordell Erwin Dawson
Paw Paw, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and carrying a firearm during the commission of a felony. This case arose from the fatal shooting of the victim during the early-morning hours of August 15, 2021. Defendant's defense at trial was that he was innocent and the shooting was perpetrated by Michael Johnson, also known as "Bruno." Michael was initially charged with murder and lying to the police as a codefendant in this case, b
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Piper
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead in violaiton of 18 U.S.C. 371. Brandon Piper, age 35, of Gobles, Michigan, helped perpetrate an extensive scheme to import unapproved, misbranded prescription drugs, including peptides, which are popular weight loss drugs, into the United States from China for distribution to customers. The customers purch
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kenneth Bardwell
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obtaining millions of dollars in investment funds based on false pretenses. Digested 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> Kenneth Bardwell, 66, of West Bloomfield, was the operator of a company called “Motown Sports Group Holdings, Inc.” and several related business entities. Through these entities, Bardwell has solic
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Sefton Stewart
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h) and attempt and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1349. 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 October 2019 and September 2024, Sefton Stewart, age 40,, Danielle Diarbakerly, and others participated in a scheme to defraud people i
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Zina Thomas
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery involving a federal program. 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> Zina Thomas, 62, of Detroit, formerly employed as the Director of Homeownership Programs for a local non-profit, conspired with and paid bribes to Jackson, formerly employed as a taxpayer assistant with the Wayne Counter Treasurer’s Office,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Karl Alan White, Jr.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with running a vast drug operation. 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> While serving his sentence, White suffered brain damage that left him paralyzed and blind.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Catherine Spidell-Ferguson and D’Angelo Ferguson admitted to participating in the submission of three separate PPP loan applications, which included false representations and fictitious supporting documents. As part of the scheme, D’Angelo Ferguson claimed each company had a certain amount of monthly income, along with monthly payroll expenses for certain employees. Both the number of employees
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Omar Rashad Pouncy
Flint, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Chris Quinn represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, Witness Tampering, intimidation of a witness, bribery, and subornation of prejury. Omar R. Pouncy, 38, of Flint, was convicted of committing multiple carjackings and armed robberies in Genesee County in 2005. The trial court sentenced Pouncy to a lengthy term of incarceration. After exhausting all of his appeals in state court, Pouncy filed a federal habeas cor
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Randon “Romero” Williams
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly defrauding financial institutions and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Between approximately April 2020 and March 2021, Randon “Romero” Williams , 40, applied for more than $5 million in loans across six applications submitted to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) participating lenders under the names of various businesses during the COVID-19 pan
View VerdictUnited Sattes of America v. Erich Zeeb
Marquette, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Erich Zeeb, 51, of Roanoke, Virginia, exploited a 15 years old, online in 2012. He presented himself to the victim and her parents as an Olympian-in-training and someone who could help the victim with her own Olympic aspirations. As U.S. District Judge Jane M. Beckering stated at sentencing, Zeeb groomed the victim, gained her parents’ trust, and then used that access to se
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Glapinski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing thousands of images of child pornography. Dr. Robert Glapinski, 62, of Capac, Michigan. was accused to possession and distributing thousands of pornographic immages. On March 5, 2025, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip from Google that a user had child pornography in a Google Chat. Some of the images included the sexual exploitation and abuse of prepubescen
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Graham Ward
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. On January 12, 2025, first responders responded to a 911 call at a hotel in Gaylord, Michigan and pronounced a 25-year-old man dead of a drug overdose. A woman who was last with the decedent before his death cooperated with law enforcement and stated that she received the drugs the day before from Robert Graham Ward, age 43, from Rapid City, Michigan, at his r
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”)
Detroit, Michigan, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a whistleblower claim. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”), operates approximately 140 physical therapy clinics in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia, agreed to pay $4,969,494 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for physical therapy services to several federal healthcare programs. Healthcare providers charge services to federal heal
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Stephen Duane Woods, Jr.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Michael Bartish represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Once the officers successfully detained Woods, he told them multiple times that he didn’t have anything on his person. One officer then patted Woods down but didn’t find a gun. Other officers used their flashlights to look through the windows of Woods’s locked car for the gun, but they didn’t see one either. So Blank used Woods’s keys to unlock the
View VerdictState of Michigan v. Sherrone Moore
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Ellen Michaels represented the Defendant charged with stalking and breaking and entering. Sherrone Moore was accused of breaking into the home of a woman with whom he had a prior relationship.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Thomas Shannon, 44, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapchat. Investigators identified the perpetrator as Shannon, then an orthodontist in Grandville. Investigators reviewed Shannon’s Snapchat accoun
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Peter Valente
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Peter Valente and Angela Toma collaborated to fraudulently obtain $2,609,210 from the Paycheck Protection Program. Valente and Toma are alleged to have submitted false loan applications to Paycheck Protection Program lenders using inactive businesses and falsified bank records. When federal agents began investigating the loan fraud, Valente approached them and repeatedly claimed that Toma was solely res
View VerdictState of Michigan v. Lance Clowney, II
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Lance Clowney II was charged with three felony assault charges after allegedly striking someone with a hammer.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children From 2019 through 2024, Thomas Shannon, 44, previously of Byron Center, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapchat. Investigators identified the perpetrator as Shannon, then an orthodontist in Grandville. Investi
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mohammad Hamdan
Detroit, Michigan, criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted conspiracy to commit fraud. Mohammad Hamdan, age 44, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, admitted to utilizing his two pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims for prescriptions even though the prescribed drugs were medically unnecessary or not actually dispensed. In many instances, the pharmacies lacked the inventory to dispense these drugs but billed the health care insurers as thought they had
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kristin Renee Zelonish Edwards
Mizzoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. he government alleged in court documents and at trial that Kristin Edwards defrauded Glacier Bank of over $170,000 by depositing 12 fraudulent savings bonds at four different bank branches in Northwest Montana. Edwards traveled from California to Montana to deposit the savings bonds, making four trips between October 2022 and January 2023. Glacier Bank received notice in February 2023 from the United
View VerdictIn re: Thomas William O'Hara
Grand Rapids, Michigan, bankruptcy lawyer represented the Petitioner seeking a chapter 13 bankruptcy. Thomas O’Hara filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. At a hearing on the United States Trustee’s motion to dismiss, the bankruptcy court made clear its intent to convert the case to Chapter 7. But O’Hara did not move to dismiss his Chapter 13 case until after the bankruptcy court had entered its conversion order. The bankruptcy court denied both that motion to dismiss and O’Hara’s subseq
View VerdictClarence Borns v. Troy Crisman, Warden
Detroit, Michigan: n December 2012, a vandal broke the windows of two homes owned by Evelyn Hardwick. She called the police, who said there was nothing they could do. But Hardwick “wanted to find out exactly . . . why . . . someone [would] come and tear out [her] windows in mid winter for absolutely nothing.” R. 23-6, Pg. ID 1715. She suspected the reason had something to do with her son, James Rankin. Rankin lived in one of his mother’s vandalized homes. At the time, he’d been having
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gerald Desean Jarrett
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Vincent Lee Galicia
Flint, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.
View VerdictKoren Wagner v. Hanon Systems USA, LLC
Ann Arbor, Michigan labor law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law that establishes national standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor. Enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor (.gov), it applies to most private and public employees. Key provisions include a federal minimum wage of per hour (as of 2009) and mandatory time-and-a-half pay for hours worked o
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Samer Kammo
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a multi-million-dollar Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) fraud scheme. Samer Kammo, 46, and his co-conspirators tried to cheat the system by exploiting a federal relief program meant to help Americans in need. Let this case send a clear message: crime does not pay,” said Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. “FBI Detroit and HSI Detroit stand shoulder to shoulder in
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Andrial Ortiz
Lansing, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearm. Andrial Ortiz was a felon who was not allowed to possess a gun, and the moment he did he used it to shoot a police officer. My office was happy to prosecute this case. We accept the 15-year sentence as a just response. I hope everyone reading this will take a minute to remember and appreciate that we ask law enforcement officers to risk their lives on a regular basis. Pol
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kyle Wagner
Detroit, Michigan, Zcriminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with making Federal threats and cyberstalking following alleged murder and assault threats against ICE. Kyle Wagner escalated his opposition to ICE operations, including conspiring and threatening to assault federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. In January 2026, Wagner repeatedly posted on Facebook and Instagram encouraging his followers to forcibly confront, assault, impede, oppose, and resist federal off
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jabari Long
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer Steve Fishman represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Long submitted fraudulent loan applications to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) for businesses that did not exist. Specifically, Long received $2,187,000 in federal loans for Priceless Preservations Construction, a company that Long claimed had 50 employees and an average monthly payroll of $875,000. In truth, Priceless Preservations Constr
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Sims
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking and committing a crime of violence with a machine gun. Brandon Sims, 35, of Detroit, Michigan, committed the carjacking on October 18, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. Sims carjacked a man who was assisting a young woman move out of Mr. Sims’s residence. Sims entered the male victim’s SUV and brandished a firearm. The victim pushed the gun away, causing it to discharge. The male victim ran from the veh
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rita Shaba
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) wire and bank fraud. Rita Shaba, 40, and her co-conspirators caused fraudulent PPP applications to be submitted for several business entities. Those applications misrepresented payroll information for the business entities and falsely certified that PPP loan funds would be used for permissible business-related purposes. The defendants also caused fictitious payroll, health
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Lemar Baines
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute over 12 pounds of methamphetamine. On January 23, 2025, officers with the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team (KVET), a multijurisdictional narcotics enforcement team working in the Kalamazoo County area, stopped a van carrying over 12 pounds of methamphetamine as it returned from Detroit to Kalamazoo. The van was driven by Baines and investigators found the methamphetamin
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Lemar Baines
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. On January 23, 2025, officers with the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team (KVET), a multijurisdictional narcotics enforcement team working in the Kalamazoo County area, stopped a van carrying over 12 pounds of methamphetamine as it returned from Detroit to Kalamazoo. The van was driven by Brandon Lemar Baines, age 36, of Kalamzoo, and investigato
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Martin Daryl Waskowski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children and possession of porn. On December 3, 2025, Martin Daryl Waskowski, 38, of Royal Oak. was traveling from Canada back to the United States when he was stopped by Customs and Border Protection inspections at a border crossing in Vermont. Waskowski’s digital devices, including a cell phone and a laptop, were reviewed by HSI agents and found to contain suspected child pornography. A subse
View VerdictState of Michigan v. John Doe
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder. Detroit Jones, 38, died after Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) officers found him in the area of Southeast Lafayette Avenue and Sycamore Street at 1:30 a.m. with critical injuries from being shot. The GRPD arrested a man believed to be the shooter.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and intending to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl. During a search of Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath's Battle Creek, residence in March 2025, officers found over 1 kilogram of fentanyl, two firearms, thousands of dollars of cash, and what appeared to be an area designed to manufacture counterfeit fentanyl pills in the basement, which included scales, trays, packaging material, a blender, Tupp
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Ceratizit USA, L.L.C. and Mark Alan Stover
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating the False Claims Act. Ceratizit USA LLC (Ceratizit), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based distributor of tungsten carbide products, has agreed to pay $54.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly failing to pay duties owed on tungsten carbide products imported from the People’s Republic of China (China). Tungsten carbide is a hard, wear-resistant
View VerdictPeople of Michigan v. Kardasz
Mount Clemens, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged first-degree criminal sexual conduct for the sexual assault of his five-year-old daughter.
View VerdictRhonda Hehrer v. County of Clinton, Michigan, et al.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference civil rights violation wrongful death theory. This case’s tragic facts took place during Joseph Hehrer’s detention at a county jail. After Hehrer showed signs of illness (including vomiting), medical staff repeatedly evaluated him. Yet they failed to uncover that he suffered from a previously undiagnosed condition: diabetes. Four days after Hehrer’s first request for me
View VerdictState of Michigan v. Teenager John Doe
Grand Rapid, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represents Defendant charged with attempted murder for shooting at police officers. The Defendant, age 18, was walking on a sidewalk when he was recognized by officers as wanted in connection with the theft of a firearm. The Officers ordered him to stop, but he turned an pointed a gun at them. A number of shots were fire by the suspect and the Officers but no one was hit.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath
Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. During a search of Nazzarie Acoy Carmouche-Heath’s Battle Creek residence in March 2025, officers found over 1 kilogram of fentanyl, two firearms, thousands of dollars of cash, and what appeared to be an area designed to manufacture counterfeit fentanyl pills in the basement, which included scales, trays, packaging material, a blender, Tupperware sifters, a p
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kevin Lavon Giles
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking children by force, fraud or coercion. Kevin Lavon Giles, 59, of Detroit, was convicted of two counts of sex trafficking children and through force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of sex trafficking an adult through force, fraud, or coercion. The testimony at trial proved Giles exploited his female victims by requiring them to perform commercial sex acts in return for shelter for them and th
View VerdictState of Michigan v. Sherrone Moore
Ann Arbor, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with home invasion, stalking in a domestic relationship and breaking and entering in a domestic relationship. Former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore and the victim had an "intimate relationship" for a number of years.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. John Allen Grayeski
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mary Smelter-Bolton
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.<br>
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nabil Fakih,R.Ph.
Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud.
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