California Verdicts & Court Cases

United States of America v. Marice L. Curry

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Aiding and Assisting in the Preparation of False Tax Returns in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206(2). Marice Curry, 35, of Fresno, filed more than 50 fraudulent tax returned in 2023. United States Sentencing Commi

United States ex rel. Jahr, et al., v. Tetra Tech EC, Inc.

San Francisco, Californian qui tam lawyers represented the United States in a False Claims Action. Reported by Kent Morlan Arthur R. Jahr III, Elbert G. Bowers, Susan V. Andrews, Archie R. Jackson, Anthony Smith, Donald K. Wadsworth, and Robert McLean, former employees and contractors of Tetr

The People of the State of California v. Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, age 32, fatally shoot and killed Los Angeles Sheriff Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer. Salazar pleaded not guilty by reason of insani

United States of America v. Robert Manuel Nacionales Tafoya

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with one count of federal program bribery and admitted to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes. Reported by Kent Morlan Robert Manuel Nacionales Tafoya was charged with bribery in violation of 18 U

The People of the State of California v. Cesar Jimenez

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with domestic assault and battery. Reported by Kent Morlan Lt. Ruben Gutierrez was arrested for domestic assault and battery. California, domestic battery is governed by California Penal Code 243(e)(1) and cover

United States of America v. Georgina Bribiesca Chavez

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with participating in a years-long scheme to smuggle exotic reptiles into and out of the United States in violation of the Lacey Act Trafficking, 16 U.S.C. 3372(a)(1) and 16 U.S.C. 3373(d)(1)(B). Reported by Kent

United States of America v. ByteDance, dba TikTok

San Francisco, California United States District Attorney's Office sued ByteDance, dba TikTok on an invasion of privacy theory claiming that the social media company for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and breaching a 2019 FTC consent order. The Government claimed

United States of America v. Esmeralda Soriano, a.k.a. “Esmeralda Aguilar” and “Esmeralda Silva”

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with food stamp fraud in violation of 7 U.S.C. 2024(b). Reported by Kent Morlan Esmeralda Soriano, 48, a.k.a. “Esmeralda Aguilar” and “Esmeralda Silva,” of Santa Ana, owned Soriano Produce is a low-volum

Inland Empire Waterkeeper, et al. v. Corona Clay Company

Los Angeles, California, environmental lawyers represented the Plaintiff who used the Defendant claiming it violating the Clean Water Act. Plaintiffs sued defendant Corona Clay Co. for violating certain stormwater-permit requirements related to its clay-recycling activities conducted near Temesca

United States of America v. Dequan Mitchell

Sacramento, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Digested by Kent Morlan Dequan Mitchell, 23, of Vallejo, murdered a man. While on probation for that crime, investigators discovered Mitchell was involved in posting a firearm

United States of America v. Sangsoo Kim

San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry following removal in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326 and false use of a passport in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1543. Digested by Kent Morlan Sangsoo Kim, 56, a national of South Korea, admitted tha

United States of America v. Olof Kyros Gustafsson aka “El Silencio"

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Digested by Kent Morlan Olof Kyros Gustafsson, 32, a.k.a. “El Silencio,” was the CEO of Escobar Inc., a corporation registered in Puerto Rico that held successo

United States of America v. Andrea Nicole Doherty

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with defrauding customers of her former Porsche restoration and resale business and pocketing more than $827,000. Digested by Kent Morlan Andrea Nicole Doherty, 38, admitted that she took over CPR Classic from her

The People of the States of California v. Daniel Flores

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with wrongfully eavesdropping on or recording confidential communications. Digested by Kent Morlan Daniel Flores, accused of making recordings made in 2024, when he was working in a unit of the Los Angeles Polic

United States of America v. Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank

San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with securities fraud. Digested by: Kent Morlan Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank accused of exploitation of their employer’s confidential information allowed them to make more than $300,000 in illegal profits.

State People of the State of California v. Carlos Reales Dominguez

Woodland, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Digested by: Kent Morlan Carlos Reales Dominguez, age 23, was accused of stabbing two people to death near the University of California, Davis, in 2023.

United States of America v. Scott Allen Simpkins

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obstructing a federal investigation. Reported by Kent Morlan Scott Allen Simpkins, 34, of Brea, was a deputy assigned to LASD’s Lakewood Station and worked for LASD’s Special Enforcement Bureau and SWAT

United States of America v. Manuel Rubin Perez

Sacramento, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute meth. Reported by: Kent Morlan Between April and July 2018, Manuel Ruben Perez, 40, of Orland, California, worked with others to sell methamphetamine and heroin in and around Orland.

United States of America v. Guramrit Sidh

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in violation of 21 U.S.C. 848(a). Reported by: Kent Morlan from September 2020 to February 2023, Sidhu led an organization responsible for trafficking drugs from

United States of America v. Jeremiah Manuyag Flores

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with depriving another of rights under color of law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242, and falsification of records in a federal investigation in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1519. Reported by: Kent Morlan Former San Diego

The People of the States of California v. David Bradshaw

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm (Pen. Code,[1] § 245, subd. (b)), assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2)), and shooting at an occupied motor vehicle (§ 246). Reported by Kent Morlan The People cha

United States of America v. Gilberto Barron

Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violaition of 18 U.S.C. 1349, money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956, and aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1028A. Reported by Kent Morlan Gilberto Ba

United States of America v. Daniel Damato

Oakland, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violaiton of 18 U.S.C. 1343. Reported by Kent Morlan Daniel Damato engaged in a wire fraud scheme in which he knowingly sold counterfeit sports memorabilia and attempted to obstruct the FBI’s

United States of America v. Lucinda Jane Weist Manera, “Lucy Weist”

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with helping her convicted fraudster boyfriend hide from federal law enforcement, hide out in Mexico, and then later flee to his native Germany to avoid incarceration and sentencing in his U.S. criminal case. Repor

United States of America v. Randal Vance, Rebecca Vance and Keir Ceballos-Rivera

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to employ or use minors to violate the Controlled Substances Act – Title 21, U.S.C., Sections 841, 846, and 861(a). Reported by Kent Morlan Randal Vance the ringleader of the conspiracy, plead

R.K.C. v. Google, et al

Los Angeles, California, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a tort theory claiming that they defendants intentionally designed game that addict him. R.K.C. v. Google, a 15-year-old plaintiff sued YouTube (owned by Google), claiming its platform is designed to be addicti

The People v. Gene Evin Atkins

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder. Reported by Kent Morlan Gene Atkins, age 36, was charged with attempting to murder hs grandmother and girlfriend prior to a standoff at a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s where he held shoppers h

United States of America v. Daniel Chartraw

Sacramento, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of wire fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Daniel Chartraw, 53, formerly of South Lake Tahoe and Lodi, engaged in a wide-ranging series of fraudulent schemes involving cryptocurrency companies, sham business ventur

United States of America v. Richard Tillman

San Jose, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire (arson). Reported by Kent Morlan Richard Tillman, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 7, 2025. Tillman pleaded guilty to one count of Malicio

United States of America v. United States and State of California ex rel. Jason Vellen v. Circle Medical Care of California, Circle Medical Technologies, Inc., Dr. Nicole Tsang, D.O, and George Favvas

San Francisco, California, qui tam lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a violation of the False Claims Act. Reported by Kent Morlan Circle Medical Care of California operates an online telehealth platform through which it offers mental health treatment and primary care medical services throug

United States of America v. Joyce Turner

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining FEMA disaster relief money. Reported by Kent Morlan Joyce Turner, 56, of Rosharon, Texas, submitted a fraudulent disaster benefits application to FEMA, falsely claiming she lived in P

United States of America v. Victor Hugo Villalobos Almazan and Nayeli Noemi Montoya Rodriguez

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with bank fraud. Reported by Kent Morlan Victor Hugo Villalobos Almazan and his wife, Nayeli Noemi Montoya Rodriguez, Mexican nationals entered the United States on tourist visas. They posed as legitimate prop

the People of California v. Alex Demolle

Oakland, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charge with first-degree murder. Reported by: Kent Morlan On July 23, 1999, 11-year-old Jaquita Mack went missing.1 Her body was discovered the next day on a hillside in Oakland. Two weeks later, defendant Alex Demolle co

United States of America v. Oladapo Olagbemi

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding an assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns. Reported by: Kent Morlan Oladapo Olagbemi, age 72, of San Diego, prepared false Schedules 1, C, and E accompanying his client’s individual

The People v. Nick Pasqual

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder and forcible rape. Reported by Kent Morlan Actor Nick Pasqual was accused of first-degree residential burglary and multiple counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiance's, boyfriend, gi

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with battery and threatening to kill a stranger on the Third Street Promenade. Reported by Nay Min Tar, date of birth January 7, 1977, allegedly was driving on Broadway near the Third Street Promenade when he sto

United States of America v. Jose Manuel Perez

Los Angeles, California, pro se defendant defended himself without the help of a lawyer charged with smuggling goods into the United States. Reported by Kent Morlan Jose Manuel Perez, 34, of Oxnard, and other co-conspirators smuggled wildlife into the United States from Mexico and elsewhere, i

United States of America v. Philip Frederick Camino

Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reported by Philip Frederick Camino, 46, of Culver City, California, submitted and caused to be submitted false and fraudulent applications to the United States Small Busine

United States of America v. Kenneth Iwamasa

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death and serious bodily injury. Reported by: Kent Morlan Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, of Toluca Lake, was a live-in personal assistant was sentenced today to 41 mont

United States of America v. Violetta Mailyan

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and attempted obstruction of criminal investigation of heath care cases. Reported by Kent Morlan Glendale Doctor Violetta Mailyan, age 45, was accused of submitting more than t$45 million in bog

United States of America v. Hector Perez

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Reported By Kent Morlan Hector Perez, age 35, of Stockton, California, and his brother Flavio Perez, 30, of Stockton, carried out a fraudulent s

United States of America v. Donald Do

San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act by trafficking and false labeling logger head turtles in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and aiding and abetting the violation of the Act. Reported by By Kent Morlan Donal

United States of America v. Zaid Gitesatani

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing a hate crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. 249(a)(1) . Reported By Kent Morlan Zaid Gitesatan, age 28, of Carlsbad, California, assaulted a Jewish man. “The defendant’s conduct, if proven, is

United States of America v. Sydney Johnson and Brandon Marion

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with illegally importing 27 protected parrots and parakeets in a modified spare tire in the trunk of a car. Reported by Kent Morlan Sydney Johnson, age 27, of Santee and Brandon Marion, age 38, of Temecula trie

United States of America v. Tyler Robert Buchanan

Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From September 2021 to April 2023, Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, and other individuals conspired to conduct cyber intrusions and v

United States of America v. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder millions of dollars of health care fraud proceeds. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub, age 51, of Chula Vista,m California, and her co-conspirators billed Medicare nearly $51 million for bogus prescr

State of California v. Alflya Zuckerman, Rubein Tamrzaian, Valie Muradkhanyan, Ararat Chirkinians

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with aggravated white-collar crime, presenting a false insurance claim and destroying insured property. Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village and Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, and Ararat Chirkini

State of California v. David Burke, aka D4vd

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. David Burke, aka D4vd, age 21, is suspected of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in his apparently abandoned Tesla that was towed from the Hollywood Hills.

United States of America v. Tae Miyaji Jones

Santa Ana, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzlement. Tae Miyaji Jones, 50, of Huntington Beach, was an account manager for her employer in Garden Grove. In this role, her responsibilities included administering the company’s accounting and financia

United States of America v. Wong Kim Ark

The Chinese Exclusion Acts denied citizenship to Chinese immigrants. Moreover, by treaty no Chinese subject in the United States could become a naturalized citizen. Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco to parents who were both Chinese citizens who resided in the United States at the time. At age 2