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United States of America v. Herlin Hernandez-Trinidad
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possess with intent to distribute. Dominican Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison as Member of Maritime Cocaine-Trafficking Conspiracy In April 11, 2024, Herlin Hernandez-Trinidad, a/k/...
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( 04-12-2024 - WI)

United States of America v. Keenan J. Denruyter
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Possessing Fentanyl With Intent to Distribute, and Possessing a Firearm and Ammunition as a convicted felon . Green Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Dealing...
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( 04-10-2024 - WI)

United States of America v. Louis J. Chevalier
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Distribution and Child Neglect. Drug Distribution and Child Neglect on Menominee Indian Reservation Lead to Prison Sentence for Keshena Man Louis J. Chevalier (age: 32...
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( 03-11-2024 - WI)

United States of America v. John D. Whelan
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and lying to federal agents. On March 4, 2024, John D. Whelan (age: 77), a psychiatrist, was sentenced to a term of 48 months’ i...
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( 03-05-2024 - WI)

United States of America v. Rodney C. Smith
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a Fraudulent Tax Return Preparer . Fraudulent Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison Term Gregory J. United States District Judge Brett H. Ludwig sentenced Rodney C. Smith...
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( 02-28-2024 - WI)

United States of America v. Anthony J. Michalek
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a Sex Offender. Anthony J. Michalek (age: 38) of Langlade County, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment for receiving obscene visual depictions of the sexual abuse of children, in violation of Title 18...
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( 01-18-2024 - WI)

Leshaun Benjamin v. Alicia Sanchez
Milwaukee, Wisconsin personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a civil rights violation theory. Plaintiff Leshaun Benjamin, who is represented by counsel, is proceeding under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on an Eighth Amendment claim against a nurse at the Milwaukee Mental Health Complex (MMHC). The plaintiff alleges that on September 8—he doesn't say w...
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( 12-29-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Steven M. Stathas
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant Charged with Child Sexual Abuse Steven M. Stathas, (age: 33) of West Bend, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment (15 years), after he pleaded guilty to Using a Computer to Attempt to Persuade, Induce, and Entice a Minor ...
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( 12-21-2023 - WI)

Joseph Walker v. City of Milwaukee, et al.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theories. Joseph Walker was shot multiple times by a Milwaukee police officer on April 6, 2014. The officers were responding to a mental health crisis call when they shot Mr. Walker. ...
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( 12-01-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Cornelius Jackson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, and Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking The evidence presented at trial established that between 2014 and 2020, Cornelius Jackson, age 34, of Waukesha, used force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion to compel female victims to engage in co...
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( 11-16-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Aminat Omotayo Adeniyi Ajao
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder money instruments in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h), which provides: (h) Any person who conspires to commit any offense defined in this section or section 1957 shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense the commission of which was the object of the cons...
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( 10-05-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Jimmy A. Walker and Marialuwisa A. Prado
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344. Marialuwisa A. Prado, age 26, a Wisconsin resident, and Jimmy A. Walker, age 30, a resident of Missouri. In May 2022, while Prado was working for a private mail-sorting business in Brookfield, Wisconsin, she stole mail that contained ...
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( 10-05-2023 - WI)

Maria Elvia Smith v. Merrick Garland, et al.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin immigration law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant under 5 U.S.C. 702 which provide a person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute, is entitled to judicial review thereof. Federal immigration law allows for the issuance of a visa to “an al...
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( 09-15-2023 - WI)

M.V.T. v. Social Security Administration
Milwaukee, Wisconsin social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of HHS' denial of his application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits....
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( 08-16-2023 - WI)

B.C.R. v. Social Security Administration
Milwaukee, Wisconsin social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of his application for Social Security: SSID Tit. XVI benefits. "The acronym SSID stands for Supplemental Security Income, which is a different program from Title XVI of the Social Security Act. Title XVI is the part of the Social Security Act that establishes the ...
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( 08-16-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Joseph Nemeth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with carrying out an investment scheme that defrauded over 20 victims and caused a loss of at least $2.2 million. Nemeth had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The information presented at sentencing showed that Joseph Nemeth, age 53, from Germantown, Wisconsin, p...
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( 07-26-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. William McDonald
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with intimidating and interfering with Black residents because of their race and because they were exercising their right to fair housing. William McDonald, 45, of West Allis, vandalized a Black woman’s vehicle parked outside her apartment by slashing her tires and smashing her windshield in March 2021. McDonald...
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( 07-24-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Rocky R. Sonkowsky
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a child and capturing 21 images of the abuse on his smartphone. In Summer 2021, while babysitting his girlfriend’s infant child and changing the child’s diaper, Rocky R. Sonkowsky (age: 33) of Oconto County, Wisconsin, sexually assaulted the child and captured 21 images of the abuse on...
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( 06-12-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Don A.K. James, Jr. and Frederick L. Brewer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, and distributing fentanyl. In January and February 2022, Frederick L. Brewer, age 34, sold fentanyl pills to an informant working with the Brown County Drug Task Force (“BCDTF”). The potentially lethal pills had been illi...
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( 06-07-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Jerome O. Smith
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with carjacking that took place in Milwaukee in May 2022. On May 8, 2022, Jerome O. Smith, ate 27, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, lured his victim to an apartment building in Milwaukee. When the victim arrived, Smith held a gun to his head and stole his jewelry, wallet, watch, and car keys. Smith then fled in the victi...
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( 05-26-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Erin D. Schweitzer, a/k/a Erin D. Martin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country. On April 18, 2019, officers, firefighters, and EMS were dispatched to a two-vehicle, head-on crash on CTH VV near St. Michael’s Cemetery on the Menominee Indian Reservation. When officials arrived at the scene, they found two SUVs—a Dodge Durango and a Kia Sorren...
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( 05-05-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Qasim Khan
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with willfully filing a false tax return. Qasim Khan of Milwaukee owned and operated Global Focus Partners LLC, a consulting business through which he successfully brokered contracts between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other businesses located in the United States and abroad. For 2015 to 2017, Khan reported his...
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( 04-28-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Antoine L. Jackson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank robbery, three bank robberies, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and conspiracy to retaliate against an informant. Between September 15, 2021, and December 23, 2021, Antoine L. Jackson, age 20, was part of a robbery crew that committed multiple bank robberies in Milwaukee. T...
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( 04-18-2023 - WI)

United States of America v. Stephen Teller
Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault committed in Indian Country. On July 29, 2022, officers with the Menominee Tribal Police Department responded to a 911 call from a residence in Keshena, which is on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The caller reported seeing Stephen Teller, Jr., age 41, a former resident of the Menominee Reservation,...
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( 03-29-2023 - WI)

Josef C. Altenhofen and Laurie Altenhofen v. EMS Express, et al.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on auto negligence theories claiming to have suffered more than $900,000 in damages and/or injuries as a direct result of EMS Express' driver's failure to exercise due care in the operation of Defendant's truck. This case was filed in the Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, Case No. 22-CV-003097, and was ...
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( 03-16-2023 - WI)

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