Former businessman, Walter Liew, 62, who was convicted of making false statements in bankruptcy along with several offenses related to trade secrets and economic espionage, has requested that a federal court in Oakland, CA allow him to serve the remainder ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Ohio denied a request by John W. ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska took the unusual step of directing the U.S. Marshall to located, arrest and incarcerate two pro se debtors found in civil contempt for repeatedly failing to obey orders of a Nebraska bankruptcy court. ... Read full article
A bankruptcy fraud defendant who "relie[d] entirely on the generalized threat of COVID-19" and "failed to explain why he is particularly vulnerable to it" is not entitled to compassionate release under the First Step Act, ruled a ... Read full article
A South Carolina bankruptcy court last week ordered a local law firm to disclose the names of bankruptcy clients amidst a discovery dispute with the U.S. Trustee. The attorney-client privilege, the court held, does not apply to information disclosed for ... Read full article
A North Carolina Bankruptcy Court recently upheld the advice of counsel defense to allegations that a debtor knowingly and fraudulently made a false oath in bankruptcy, confirming once again that debtors who reasonably act, after full disclosure to their ... Read full article
Updating an earlier post ( here ) on Anthony Levandowski's request for bankruptcy court approval to retain special criminal counsel in his chapter 11 bankruptcy case, it appears that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Hannah L. Blumenstiel approved the ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota recently denied a motion to compel a bankruptcy fraud defendant's former attorney to turn over his case file to assist the former-client in preparing an anticipated habeas petition. ... Read full article
A serial bankruptcy filer was criminally referred to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas in connection with an alleged and convoluted series of bankruptcy filings in his own and his ex-wife's name in order to stay ... Read full article
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) furloughed a former bankruptcy lawyer serving a 63 month sentence following a guilty plea to several bankruptcy crimes. Peter Ressler, 72, pled guilty in 2017 to wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1343), embezzlement from a bankruptcy ... Read full article
A recent case that provides great practical lessons both for counsel and bankruptcy criminal defendants denied a defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment under circumstances where an alleged plea agreement on misdemeanor charges could not be ... Read full article
Updating a case when wrote about here , Chief U.S. District Judge John E. ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida denied the request of a bankruptcy fraud defendant to modify the terms of his supervised released. David Griffin was convicted, in connection a mortgage rescue scheme, of bankruptcy fraud and ... Read full article
The Third Circuit recently remanded the case of a bankruptcy fraud defendant for re-sentencing on the ground that the district court failed adequately to explain how it applied the statutory sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) and failed to explain ... Read full article
Former Uber Technologies engineer Anthony Scott Levandowski has requested court approval in his chapter 11 bankruptcy case to employ a criminal defense firm as special counsel. Both Google and the Office of the United States Trustee (UST) filed replies. ... Read full article
The criminal trial of Natalie Cochran, who is accused of operating a Ponzi scheme with her late husband, was postponed today in the Southern District of West Virginia at least partially due to COVID-19. Cochran was indicted on multiple counts of wire ... Read full article
Christopher Coburn was found guilty today of five counts of bankruptcy fraud and two counts of falsification of records in a bankruptcy proceeding arising from his involvement in a classic mortgage rescue scheme. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years’ ... Read full article
U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced David Martin “Marty” Golloher to three years in federal prison for wire fraud, tax fraud, and bankruptcy fraud, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Golloher had pleaded ... Read full article
Grant White, CEO of Americore Holdings LLC, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination during a deposition Thursday before the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in his Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Americore and its affiliated ... Read full article
According to a press release from the U.S. ... Read full article
