Fraud

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

Fraud / Breach of Fiduciary Duty / Defamation

Handled an action involving defamatory email sent by a student about another student using the school’s internet and library computer.
Handled an action involving statements made in political slate mailers and use of a plaintiff’s name without consent including claims for defamation, fraud, invasion of privacy, and First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
Tried an action involving whether a third party had the authority to settle a doctor’s disability insurance claim and whether the check was cashed on a forged signature with fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligent misrepresentation claims. Court trial.
Handled a fraud, invasion of privacy and negligence action involving the unauthorized disclosure of a player’s medical records to a professional sports team and the team doctor.
Handled an action involving fraud in the management and election of board members at a private club where plaintiff was intentionally excluded.
Handled an action involving certain statements made in a trade newsletter with defamation, slander, and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims.
Tried an action for fraudulent conveyance of money not paid to plaintiff from a judgment in an underlying action where in defendants kept the money and thereafter moved that money to various shell corporations off shore. COURT TRIAL.
Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a former employee who took confidential information including customer lists, receivables and employee information from the patio furniture manufacturer to start up his own competing business with additional claims for conversion, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, unfair business practices, and declaratory relief.
Handled a fraudulent transfer action against individuals and corporation for transferring all corporate assets to different shall corporations off shore to avoid a $100,000.00 judgment.
Tried a fraud, conversion and declaratory relief action involving whether plaintiffs gave dog to defendants temporarily while their home was being remodeled or whether they gave the dog to defendants permanently. COURT TRIAL
Handled a fraud and conversion action involving a fraudulent investment scheme in a data support computer system at a school.
Handled a fraud action between a separated husband and wife involving the use of wife’s vehicle, her separate property, and failed to maintain the vehicle and incurred parking fees, gas charges and numerous tickets without paying for them. Additional claims included battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Handled a fraud and injunctive relief action against a city and competitor who conspired to prevent plaintiff from using its own property in Inglewood to provide billboard advertising on a preexisting billboard where the city denied the permit and gave exclusive rights to erect billboard advertising in the city, including next to plaintiff’s property and overhanging onto plaintiff’s property, with additional claims for trespass, nuisance and breach of oral contract.
Tried a fraud action involving the transfer of funds to different accounts from plaintiff’s account without his permission. COURT TRIAL
Handled a fraudulent transfer action involving the unauthorized transfer of 28 properties from a trust to individuals to avoid an underlying judgment.
Handled a libel and slander action against a hospital where plaintiff worked including claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Handled a fraud action involving a family owned restaurant owned by a mother and son and when the son transferred half of his interest in the restaurant to his brother-in-law and others who then claim full ownership over the business with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, unjust enrichment and declaratory relief.
Handled a fraud action involving an investment in a start-up internet golf equipment sales company where defendant took all of the start-up money and started a different website under a new name with conversion and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
Handled a fraud action involving the theft of intellectual property for a senior citizen tablet with additional claims for unjust enrichment and tortious interference with contract.
Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving a gold coin partnership in which plaintiff provided the funds and defendant was to obtain the coins but never did.
Tried a fraud and breach of contract action against a former girlfriend for loans given to pay for living expenses where representations were made that a large inheritance was forthcoming and further funds were provided when representations were made that she was kidnapped and a ransom was required and paid which was not true. COURT TRIAL.
Handled a fraud and negligence action involving the mismanagement of a downtown condominium building.
Handled a libel action against a celebrity for tweets about her former attorneys.
Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving tax preparation services where the cpa had the individual employees of the company pay him checks directly into his own private account instead of paying the company for his services resulting in excessive billing charges and double payments.
Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a dispute among family members over the disposition of their mother’s estate where money was spent to buy a yacht by one family member without authority or consent.
Handled a fraud action where payments were made for child support for a child that was represented to be the payor’s child, but he was not his child.
Handled a libel action against a doctor for making false statements to a medical college about another doctor.
Tried a fraud, conversion and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold coins that were never provided.
Handled a slander and fraud action against television network and host of television talk show for secretly taping interviews during investigation of a missing teenager in Aruba and use of the tapes on the show regarding responsibility for disappearance.
Handled a fraud and conversion action involving the withdrawal of substantial funds from a personal account without the consent or knowledge of the accountholder.
Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a dispute between siblings where substantial amounts were withdrawn from mother’s account due to her infirmity.
Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action against a bank involving appraising a property for under market value to cause the borrower to not qualify for a loan modification.
Handled an elder abuse action involving the loss of a home based on fraud.
Handled a fraud, breach of contract and conversion action involving the loss of diamond earrings when shipped by defendant.
Handled a libel action involving statements made about a property manager which resulted in termination.
Handled a fraud and unjust enrichment action involving the unauthorized transfer of assets from an estate with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and accounting.
Handled a fraud and conversion action involving payment of retirement money in fraudulent trust deeds.
Handled a breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, fraud and breach of employment agreement action involving the unauthorized award of bonuses by insurance agents of over $250,000 to themselves.
Handled a defamation action against a school district for statements made in an investigative report about a coach and teacher’s abilities.
Handled a fraudulent transfer and declaratory relief action brought by a successor company involving the sale of French medical devices that the company no longer wishes to sell.
Handled a fraud, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and breach of contract action involving the sale of a dental practice where buyer attempted to take employees in breach of the agreement.
Handled a defamation action involving statements that a church’s bank account was mishandled and funds misappropriated.
Handled a fraud, elder abuse, conversion, accounting, and breach of a settlement agreement action for failure to pay all amounts due regarding an underlying investment in a company producing a movie that was never made.
Handled a conversion, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty ad accounting action against a trustee for selling the estate’s real property and buying a home for herself without paying half of the proceed to the other heir.
Handled a fraud, accounting constructive trust action for failure to repay $275,000 borrowed from a co-owned property.
Handled a fraud and conversion action involving the purchase of jewelry with ten checks that were not honored due to insufficient funds.
Handled a petition to determine proper claimants to surplus funds interpleaded after a foreclosure sale.
Handled a libel, slander and Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 action involving the theft of an attorney’s client files by a private investigator working for that attorney and then the publication of statements about the attorney and clients on a website.
Handled a libel, slander, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress action against parents of wife/daughter who hid her interests and assets because they knew he would find out she was having an affair with a celebrity and divorce her.
Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and conversion action involving the embezzlement funds and stolen narcotics from a private pharmacy by a former employee.
Handled a fraud, and elder financial abuse action involving the changing of estate planning documents.
Handled a fraud, accounting and declaratory relief action against a sibling for mismanagement of family assets.
Handled a fraud and negligence action for money taken from a bank account without permission.
Handled a negligence, fraud, and conversion action against a former bookkeeper at a luxury automobile sales company who received checks payable to the company that she deposited into her personal accounts.
Handled a fraud, declaratory and injunctive relief and abuse of process action involving the use of a third party’s name on lawsuits to obtain properties that he had no right to in violation of a previous judgment in an underlying lawsuit.
Handled an unfair business practice and fraud action against ex-wife and her attorney in an underlying divorce action for conspiring to hide property obtained during the marriage.
Handled a fraud, elder financial abuse, promissory estoppel and cancellation of deed involving an agreement to buy, improve and resell property but co-investor never paid any money.
Handled a fraud and negligence action involving fraud by a DMV employee.
Tried a defamation action. COURT TRIAL.
Handled a fraud and conversion for funds stolen from a company by a former employee.
Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and accounting action involving the theft of a business concept to provide more ecological plastic bottling to various companies, and he enters into agreements without plaintiff.
Handled a breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and rescission action involving a failure to inform of withdrawal and surrender penalties, failure to provide a cash flow plan regarding an annuity and complete loss of life insurance investment.
Handled a fraud and negligence action involving poor care and treatment at a westside hospital.
Handled a fraud and negligence action involving the illegal recording of debt collection calls.
Handled a rescission and fraud action involving the fraudulent inducement to enter into a settlement agreement for failure to perform.
Tried a fraud and conversion action involving the theft of money invested for a real estate investment. COURT TRIAL