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Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a charge. ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Marvette Thompson Easterling, Keylon Wright, and Joshua David Armato

Greenville, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Marvette Thompson Easterling, 54, of Gaffney; Keylon Wright, 40, of Simpsonville; and Joshua David Armato, 37, of Georgia; admitted that they knowingly defrauded a program established to help homeowners at risk of mortgage loan default ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - SC)

United States of America v. John Barry, Jr.

Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. John Barry Jr., of Pemberton, and his co-conspirators falsely represented to clients that they could extinguish their outstanding mortgage debts by obtaining tax refunds. To carry out the scheme, Barry and his co-conspirators filed forms with the IRS that fraudulently claimed tha ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - NJ)

United States of America v. David Camp

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act. David Camp was charged with conspiring with others to fix prices of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs sold through Amazon Marketplace. The price-fixing conspiracy was ongoing from at least as early as May 2018 until at least Oct. 29, 2019. Camp is the first individual to be charged ... More $0 (07-24-2021 - TN)

United States of America v. Shaykh Abdul-Majid

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged for committing a series of armed robberies and for brandishing a firearm in relation to a violent crime. From March 28, 2020 to July 5, 2020 Abdul-Majid committed at least four robberies in which he posed as a customer before pointing a semi-automatic handgun at a victim employee, demanding store proceeds, and obtaining fu ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - MD)

United States of America v. Rasheed Mickens

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Chief Melissa R. Hyatt of the Baltimore County Police Department. Mickens has prio ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - MD)

United States of America v. Armad Jamall Gatling

Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, aggravated identity theft, and credit union fraud. “With today’s sentence, the defendant has been held accountable for the serious nature of his crimes, including his recruitment of over 50 co-conspirators to participate in an extensive fraud scheme involving the ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Bruce H. Matson

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with obstructing an official proceeding in connection with his attempts to thwart a 2019 investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee. According to court documents, Bruce H. Matson, 64, misled the U.S. Trustee’s Office in 2019 when he made false statements in response to allegations that he misappr ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - VA)

United States of America v. Charles D. Holley, a/k/a Charlei Diwan Holley

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax fraud. Charles D. Holley, aka Charlei Diwan Holley, owned and operated a data brokerage business. As part of this business, Holley purchased data information from state motor vehicle agencies, which she re-sold to various buyers. Holley set up bank accounts in which to deposit the proceeds of her business activi ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

United States ex rel. Pennetti v. Interface Rehab, et al.

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary. During the relevant time period, Medicare reimbursed skilled nursing facilities at a daily rate that reflected the skilled therapy and nursing needs of qualifying ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Audrey Renetta Odem

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit tax fraud and Aid in Preparing and Presenting False Tax Returns. From 2012 through 2016, Audrey Renetta Odom, of Durham, conspired with Karen Jones and Andrea Pasley t prepare false returns for clients. The returns fraudulently lowered the clients’ tax liabilities or inflated their refunds ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Willie M. Burks, III

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving another of their civil rights. Willie Burks, 42, was indicted for failing to stop an officer under his command from assaulting an inmate at ADOC’s Elmore Correctional Facility. The evidence at trial established that when Burks watched calmly as his subordinate, Sergeant Ulysses Oliver, took a handcuffed an ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - AL)

United States of America v. Brian Jeffrey Raymond

Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual abuse and admitted to the abusive sexual contact of numerous women, as well as photographing and recording dozens of nude and partially nude women without their consent during his career as a U.S. government employee. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, of La Mesa, was most recently employed by the U.S. government at the U.S ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - DC)

United States of America v. Nedeltcho Vladimirov

Charleston, West Virgnia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and three counts of money laundering. Nedeltcho Vladimirov, 53, a native of Bulgaria, was convicted by a jury after a three day trial Evidence at trial revealed that Vladimirov operated a fraudulent fencing operation - a scheme in which stolen goods were acquired in order to ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Nicholas Stella

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in an illegal gambling business that involved wagers on professional and collegiate sporting events. NICHOLAS STELLA, 43, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business. The sentence was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the N ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Angelica Garcia Dunn

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud. Angelica Garcia Dunn admitted to diverting over $2.2 million in vendor payments to her own business accounts. She worked as a contract escrow agent with BP. As part of her duties, she provided third-party services by making vendor payments to BP’s railcar lessors and repair vendors. Dunn received lump sum paym ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Yi-Chi Shih

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally exporting integrated circuits with military applications to China the required filing of electronic export information. Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was convicted on July 2, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Administ ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Nasheed Jackson

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks. Nasheed Jackson, 24, of Newark, and Alexander Varice, 22, and Dashawn Duncan, 27, both of South Orange, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to informations charging e ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - NJ)

United States of America v. Alexander S. Rowland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Alexander S. Rowland, 30, formerly of Penns Grove, NJ, was sentenced to nine years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $2.1 million restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Karen Spencer Marston, for defraudin ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Thomas Whitten

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, Health Care Fraud, and Conspiracy to Distribute Phentermine Hydrochloride and Diethylpropion. Thomas Whitten, age 71, of Greensburg, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William S. Stickman. In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advise ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Jim C. Beck

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, frauds and swindles, engaging in wrongful monetary transactions and making false statements. Defendant, the suspended insurance commissioner of Georgia, was accused of being a fraudster who orchestrated a a scheme to channel millions from the Georgia Underwriting Association through a series of companies i ... More $0 (07-23-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Kashon Stacy Cunningham

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Kashon Stacy Cunningham, a Clayton, NC resident, was chargeed of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). On May 22, 2020 in Smithfield, the Smithfield Police Department, and detectives w ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NC)

United States of America v. Genghis Taylor

Wheeling, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug distribution. Taylor, also known as “G,” 38, pleaded guilty to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base Within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location.” Taylor admitted to selling cocaine base, also known as “crack,” near Riverview Towers in Ohio County in May 2020. Taylor faces at least one year and ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Corey Allen Tucker

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Tucker shot an individual six times in South Charleston on January 7, 2019. Later that day, investigators with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department located Tucker in a South Charleston residence and found a 9mm pistol magazine loaded with unfired cartridges in his j ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Richard James Pfost

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of 100 grams or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. Richard James Pfost, 38, of Beaver, was the front seat passenger in a vehicle traveling in Belle when deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Dennis Hutton

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Dennis Hutton, 33, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to a federal gun crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on June 28, 2019, at a hotel room at the Quality Inn in Mineral Wells, Wood County. During the ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. Ricky Lee Clark, Sr.

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug and gun felonies. Ricky Lee Clark, Sr., 53, of St. Albans, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of firearms, and being a felon in possession of ammunition. According to court documents, a member of the St. Albans Police Department pulled over Clark ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - WV)

United States of America v. RC Theatres Management, LLLP

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused with violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The United States Department of Justice received a complaint that the Queensgate RC Theatre was not accessible to individuals with visual impairments, namely the movie theater did not have descriptive audio headsets. After an investigation wi ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

Edward Morgan v. Target Corporation

Concord, New Hampshire personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages. ... More $1 (07-22-2021 - NH)

Lynn M. Krammer v. PROCON, LLC and Stebbins Commercial Properties LLC

Concord, New Hampshire civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendant on an employment discrimination theory. This case was initially filed in the Hillsborough County Superior Court, ND, 216-2021-CV-00366, and was removed to federal court by Defendants. ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NH)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STEVEN SOMERS

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with unlawful possession of a firearm as an unlawful user of controlled substances charges. Under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3E1.1(a) (2018), a district court may decrease a criminal defendant’s offense level by 2 levels if the defendant “clearly demonstrates acceptance of responsibility for his offense.” To earn the ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - VA)

Travis King v. Social Security Administration

Concord, New Hampshire disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for DIWC/DIWW benefits denied by HHS. ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Miller Octavio Upegui-Sossa

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2), which provides: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully— (1) falsifies, conceal ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - NH)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MURRAY ROJAS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with causing prescription animal drugs to become misbranded charge. We write solely for the parties and so recite only the facts necessary to our disposition. Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse racing regulations include the following rule: “A person acting alone or in concert may not administer or cause to be administered a su ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHELLE C. CANTATORE

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of bank robbery and one count of wire fraud charge. On April 12, 2016, Cantatore pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to one count of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and one count of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The District Court sent ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JUAN LUGO

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine charge. After exhausting his administrative remedies within the Bureau of Prisons, in July 2020, Lugo filed his motion seeking compassionate release based on “extraordinary and compelling reasons” under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). Lugo stated that he has ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CARLOS MALDONADO a/k/a BORI

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and conspiracy to commit money laundering charge. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Maldonado pled guilty to a felony information charging him with conspiring to distribute and posse ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JULIUS GREER a/k/a “POONY”

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a certiorari review. We previously affirmed Julius Greer’s conviction and held that he was not entitled to relief even though his rights under the Speedy Trial Act were violated. After reviewing the record for plain error, we found “nothing in the record to suggest that the district court’s erroneous decision to gra ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ERIC ALFORD, also known as E. SMITH also known as DUB also known as E

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with Count 1, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of powder cocaine and 50 grams or more of “crack” cocaine; and Count 2, attempt to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of powder cocaine charges. In 2011, based on offense conduct in 2008, Alford pleaded guilty to the fol ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSEPH V. MONROE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVID COPES, a/k/a David Henderson-Copes

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with a Hobbs Act robbery charge. Monroe and Copes raise two issues on appeal. First, they claim that our decision in United States v. Robinson, 2 which applied a modified categorical approach in determining that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, was abrogated by the Supreme Court’s * This disposition is not an opini ... More $0 (07-22-2021 - PA)