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Money Laundering Charges for Misusing PPP Funds
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You think money laundering means hiding drug cash through shell companies. Briefcases of unmarked bills. The Wolf of Wall Street washing millions through offshore accounts. That’s not how it works in PPP fraud cases. In PPP cases, money laundering is SPENDING. Each deposit into your bank account. Each transfer between…
Read MoreAggravated Identity Theft Charges in PPP Fraud Cases
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You’re looking at your indictment. Wire fraud. Bank fraud. False statements. The charges are terrifying, but you’ve read about plea deals. Cooperation. Judicial discretion. Judges who went below guidelines. There’s hope. Then you see it – 18 USC 1028A, Aggravated Identity Theft. And everything you thought you understood about your…
Read MoreCan You Go to Jail for a $20,000 PPP Loan?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You took $20,000. Maybe $25,000. Maybe less. The amount felt small enough to fly under the radar. Federal prosecutors have bigger fish to fry, right? Multimillion-dollar schemes. Organized fraud rings. Surely they won’t bother with your loan. Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to destroy a dangerous illusion…
Read MoreStatute of Limitations for PPP Fraud: What You Need to Know
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You’ve been counting down the days. April 2020 plus ten years equals April 2030. That’s your deadline. That’s when you’re finally safe. Except you’re not. The 10-year statute of limitations for PPP fraud isn’t a deadline at all. It’s a starting point – and your countdown might be off by…
Read MoreMaximum Prison Sentence for EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Maximum Prison Sentence for EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud You’ve been Googling sentences. Looking at statutory maximums. Seeing numbers like 30 years, 100 years, life in prison. Those numbers are meant to terrify you into compliance – and they’re working. Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to show…
Read MoreHow Federal Prosecutors Build PPP Fraud Cases
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
How Federal Prosecutors Build PPP Fraud Cases The investigation is already over. That’s the part nobody tells you. By the time you receive a target letter, a phone call from an agent, or a knock on the door – the evidence collection phase is complete. The banks turned over your…
Read MoreMaximum Prison Sentence for EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Maximum Prison Sentence for EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud You searched for this because you want to know the worst case scenario. Thirty years. That’s the number that shows up everywhere. Thirty years in federal prison for bank fraud. Twenty years for wire fraud. The numbers stack on top of…
Read MoreIRS Criminal Investigation: Tax Crime Investigation Defense
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
IRS Criminal Investigation: Tax Crime Investigation Defense Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to provide you with information that could protect your freedom, your career, and everything you have built over decades. When IRS Criminal Investigation contacts you, you are not facing an audit. You are facing federal…
Read MoreWire Fraud vs. Bank Fraud: Understanding PPP Fraud Charges
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You submitted one application. One form. One click of the submit button. So why are you looking at two separate federal charges? Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to explain something that most people don’t understand until they’re staring at an indictment: wire fraud and bank fraud aren’t…
Read MoreWhat Are the Federal Charges for PPP Loan Fraud?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Are the Federal Charges for PPP Loan Fraud? Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is giving you the information prosecutors dont want you to have about federal PPP loan fraud charges. Not the sanitized version. Not the version that makes the system look fair. The actual truth about…
Read MoreFederal Probation Violations: Supervised Release Revocation Defense
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Federal Probation Violations: Supervised Release Revocation Defense Welcome to Spodek Law Group. If you completed your federal prison sentence and are now on supervised release, you probably think the hardest part is over. Our goal is to help you understand that supervised release is not freedom – it is a…
Read MoreAccused of Inflating Payroll Costs on PPP Application
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to provide every client facing federal charges with aggressive, experienced defense representation. If you’ve been contacted about inflating payroll costs on your PPP loan application, the next decisions you make could determine whether you face civil penalties or federal prison. We’re going…
Read MoreDEA Investigation Defense: Responding to Drug Enforcement Agents
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to provide you with information that could save your career, your freedom, and everything you have worked to build. When DEA agents show up at your practice or home, you are facing a different kind of federal investigation than most people understand….
Read MoreWhat Is Drug Diversion?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Drug diversion is the term that ends medical careers. Not malpractice. Not bad outcomes. A federal classification that sounds bureaucratic until you realize what it actually means – the government has decided your prescribing patterns deviate from what their algorithms consider acceptable, and an investigation may already be running without…
Read MoreWhat Are the Federal Charges for PPP Loan Fraud?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Are the Federal Charges for PPP Loan Fraud? You probably think you know what you’re facing. One charge, maybe two. Something called “fraud” with a number next to it. What most people don’t realize – and what nobody tells you until it’s too late – is that federal prosecutors…
Read MoreHow to Find Out If You’re Under Federal Investigation
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You typed this question into a search engine because you need certainty. Something feels wrong – maybe an agent left a card, maybe a colleague mentioned being questioned, maybe your bank is acting strange – and you desperately want to know for sure. Are they investigating you or not? Welcome…
Read MoreFBI Investigation Defense: What to Do When the FBI Contacts You
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
FBI Investigation Defense: What to Do When the FBI Contacts You Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to give you information that might actually save your future – not the sanitized version you’ll find on other law firm websites. When the FBI contacts you, everything changes. And most…
Read MoreFederal Sentencing Reduction: Compassionate Release and First Step Act
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to give you the honest truth about compassionate release that most law firm websites won’t tell you. The system has a name that sounds humanitarian. It isn’t. What follows is the reality of federal sentencing reduction through compassionate release – and why…
Read MoreFederal Pretrial Motions That Can Strengthen Your Defense
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Federal Pretrial Motions That Can Strengthen Your Defense Welcome to Spodek Law Group. If you are facing federal criminal charges, you probably imagine the courtroom drama – the cross-examinations, the closing arguments, the jury reaching its verdict. Our goal is to help you understand that in federal criminal practice, the…
Read MoreFederal Arraignment: What to Expect
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Federal Arraignment: What to Expect Welcome to Spodek Law Group. If you are facing a federal arraignment, you probably imagine a dramatic courtroom moment where your future hangs in the balance. Our goal is to help you understand what actually happens at a federal arraignment because the reality is almost…
Read MoreFourth Amendment in Federal Cases: Search and Seizure Defense
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to provide you with the honest assessment of Fourth Amendment defenses that most articles won’t give you. We believe potential clients deserve to understand the real landscape before making decisions about their case. What follows is the truth about suppression motions in…
Read MoreHow Federal Bail and Detention Hearings Work
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
How Federal Bail and Detention Hearings Work Welcome to Spodek Law Group. If you are facing a federal detention hearing, you probably think the key question is how much money you need to raise. Our goal is to help you understand that federal bail works completely differently than state bail,…
Read MoreFourth Amendment in Federal Cases: Search and Seizure Defense
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Fourth Amendment in Federal Cases: Search and Seizure Defense Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal is to provide you with the honest assessment of Fourth Amendment defenses that most articles won’t give you. We believe potential clients deserve to understand the real landscape before making decisions about their case….
Read MoreShould I Respond to a Target Letter Without a Lawyer?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Should I Respond to a Target Letter Without a Lawyer? You received a federal target letter. The envelope sat on your kitchen table while you researched what it meant. Now you’re wondering whether you really need to hire an attorney, or whether you can handle this yourself. Maybe your situation…
Read MoreWill I Go to Jail If I Received a Federal Target Letter?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Will I Go to Jail If I Received a Federal Target Letter? The question you’re asking is the wrong question. Not wrong because it doesn’t matter – prison matters enormously. Wrong because you’re framing this as binary when it’s actually a spectrum. Will you go to jail? Statistically, yes –…
Read MoreWhat Is a Superseding Indictment?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Is a Superseding Indictment? Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We understand that if you have just received a superseding indictment, your first reaction is probably panic. The government has gone back to the grand jury and returned a new set of charges. Our goal is to help you understand…
Read MoreWhat Is Neither Admit Nor Deny?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Is Neither Admit Nor Deny? The phrase sounds perfectly balanced. You don’t admit wrongdoing. You don’t deny the charges. Both sides walk away with something – the government gets resolution, you get to avoid confession. It’s the reasonable middle ground that civilized parties reach when litigation becomes too expensive….
Read MoreCook County PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Cook County PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers Seven people conspired to steal $16 million from American pandemic relief programs. They submitted more than 300 fraudulent PPP applications. When federal agents came to arrest them, only three were home. Four had already fled the country – back to Serbia, back to Montenegro,…
Read MoreHow Long After a Target Letter Will I Be Indicted?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
How Long After a Target Letter Will I Be Indicted? You received a target letter three days ago. The first thing you did was search how long you have. How many weeks until the indictment? How much time to prepare? How long before your life changes forever? You’re counting down…
Read MoreLos Angeles County PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Los Angeles County PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers Richard Ayvazyan was convicted of pandemic fraud. He was out on bond, awaiting sentencing. Seventeen years was coming. His wife Marietta Terabelian faced six years. So on August 29, 2021, they cut their GPS ankle monitors and vanished. They flew to Montenegro. They…
Read MoreConspiracy Charges in Federal White Collar Cases
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Your former business partner just took a meeting with the FBI. You weren’t invited. You didn’t know it was happening. Three hours later, your partner walked out with a cooperation agreement – and everything they said in that room is now evidence against you. This is how federal conspiracy prosecutions…
Read MoreCan a Target Letter Be Avoided?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Can a Target Letter Be Avoided? Early Intervention Strategies The question answers itself. If you are searching for this article, you almost certainly have already received a target letter. That is the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to tell you. People do not search for how to avoid something that has…
Read MoreFederal Mail Fraud Explained: 18 U.S.C. § 1341
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You sent a FedEx package last month. Inside was an invoice for consulting services you actually provided. The work was real. The hours were accurate. The client paid without complaint. That FedEx package is now Exhibit A in a federal mail fraud investigation. Welcome to Spodek Law Group. Our goal…
Read MoreWhat Is an SEC Deferred Prosecution Agreement?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You’ve probably heard about deferred prosecution agreements. The SEC offers them to companies that self-report misconduct, cooperate extensively, and demonstrate genuine remediation. Instead of bringing formal charges, the SEC agrees to defer prosecution while you meet certain conditions. If you comply, the case goes away entirely. It’s the holy grail…
Read MoreFederal Wire Fraud Charges: 18 U.S.C. § 1343
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Federal Wire Fraud Charges: 18 U.S.C. § 1343 You sent an email last week. Maybe it was to a business partner, a potential investor, or a contractor you were negotiating with. That email didn’t contain anything fraudulent – it just said “sounds good, let’s proceed with the arrangement we discussed.”…
Read MoreWhat Is Considered a White Collar Crime?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Is Considered a White Collar Crime? You Googled this phrase at 2am because something happened. Maybe the FBI left a business card at your office. Maybe your accountant got subpoenaed. Maybe you just watched the news about Sam Bankman-Fried getting 25 years and realized that your situation – the…
Read MoreSeattle PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Seattle PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers You work in Seattle tech. Maybe you were at Amazon. Maybe Microsoft. Maybe one of the hundreds of startups that define this city. And in 2020, when everything shut down, you applied for a PPP loan for your consulting LLC. The side business you’d been…
Read MoreShould I Take My Federal Case to Trial?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Should I Take My Federal Case to Trial? Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We understand that if you are reading this, you are probably staring at the most consequential decision of your life. A federal prosecutor has charged you with a crime, and now you have to decide whether to…
Read MoreHow to Negotiate With the SEC
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
How to Negotiate With the SEC You’re sitting across the table from SEC enforcement staff, and you think you’re negotiating your penalty. You think if you say the right things, cooperate the right way, get the right lawyer – maybe you can reduce that fine, avoid that bar, keep your…
Read MorePortland PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Portland PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers Eric Wade Lysne applied for a PPP loan claiming his company Paradigm employed 10 people in the agriculture sector and earned nearly $1 million in annual revenue. He obtained $147,400 in pandemic relief funds. The problem? Lysne had been sitting in prison for most of…
Read MoreTarget Letter vs. Grand Jury Subpoena: What’s the Difference?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Target Letter vs. Grand Jury Subpoena: What’s the Difference? You are staring at two different documents from the federal government. One says you are a “target” of an investigation. The other says you must appear before a grand jury. Both arrived in official-looking envelopes. Both mention federal crimes. But these…
Read MoreSan Francisco PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
San Francisco PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers You applied for a PPP loan in 2020. Your startup was burning through runway. Your contractors were stuck at home. Everyone you knew was applying. And the application asked questions about employees that seemed straightforward until you started thinking about your 1099 contractors. Were…
Read MoreUnderstanding Federal Plea Agreements
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Understanding Federal Plea Agreements Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We understand that if you are reading this, someone has probably put a document in front of you and asked you to sign away your future. A federal prosecutor has offered you a plea agreement, and now you have to decide…
Read MoreFederal Bail and Detention Hearings: Why Federal Bail Isn’t Really Bail At All
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Federal Bail and Detention Hearings: Why Federal Bail Isn’t Really Bail At All Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We handle federal criminal defense cases across the country, and one of the most devastating moments we witness is when a family member calls looking for a bail bondsman after a federal…
Read MoreWhat Happens After a Federal Indictment?
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
What Happens After a Federal Indictment? Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We understand that if you’re reading this, something has fundamentally shifted in your life. You’ve been indicted by a federal grand jury, or someone you love has, and now everything feels like it’s moving too fast and too slow…
Read MoreFederal Arraignment Procedure: What Really Happens Before You Ever Stand Before a Judge
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We handle federal criminal defense across the country, and one thing we see constantly is people walking into federal arraignment completely unprepared – not for the hearing itself, but for everything that happens before it. Our goal is giving you information most defendants never receive…
Read MoreHow Federal Criminal Cases Differ From State Cases
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
How Federal Criminal Cases Differ From State Cases Welcome to Spodek Law Group. We understand that finding out your case is federal instead of state changes everything about what you are facing. The rules are different, the stakes are different, the prosecutors are different, and the approach to defense needs…
Read MoreFederal Grand Jury Process: What to Expect When You’re Already Behind
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
You just found out you’re connected to a federal grand jury investigation. Maybe a target letter arrived. Maybe your lawyer called with news. Maybe someone who works with you mentioned federal agents came asking questions. Whatever the trigger, you’re now thinking about what comes next. Here’s what most people don’t…
Read MoreHow Federal Cooperation Works: Step-by-Step Guide
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Here’s a statistic that should terrify anyone considering cooperation with the federal government: 80-90% of federal defendants attempt to cooperate in some form. But only 10.8% receive formal sentence reductions through 5K1.1 motions. The math doesn’t work. Most people hand over everything they know and walk away with nothing. Welcome…
Read MoreLas Vegas PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers
- December 24, 2025
- Federal Defense Lawyers
Las Vegas PPP Loan Fraud Lawyers In Las Vegas, they gambled PPP money at the casinos. Meelad Dezfooli stole $11 million in pandemic relief and then walked onto the casino floor to bet it. He bought 25 properties under a fake name. He drove luxury cars. He funded personal investment…
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