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A Huntington Beach Uber driver has been arrested in Laguna Beach for the alleged sexual assault of one of his customers. The case is just the latest of many reports nationwide of ride-sharing drivers who have been accused of perpetrating crimes against their passengers. As KTLA 5 reports, authorities now have 22-year-old Samer Mahran in custody. According […]
Okabe & Haushalter is currently representing a client that has been named in an international fraud investigation. Our client has entered a guilty plea on this matter and is ready to face the court’s decision concerning his role in a securities fraud scheme. CASE BACKGROUND According to the Department of Justice, the accused played a […]
FOX 11 recently turned to Attorney Mark Haushalter for his insight on the latest developments in the ongoing Ezell Ford case. A former prosecutor, Attorney Haushalter shared his doubts that the two LAPD officers involved in the controversial 2014 shooting would be criminally charged. Appearing with Legal Analyst Areva Martin, Attorney Haushalter examined the particular predicament […]
Famous Las Vegas sports gambler and real estate mogul Bill Walters has been arrested by federal authorities on suspicion of insider trading. According to the FBI and IRS agents, Walters has participated in a six-year scheme that involved Dead Foods, Inc., one of the nation’s largest suppliers of dairy products. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal […]
Eleven Southern California men were arrested late last month by both state and federal authorities for their alleged activity involving child pornography. The arrests were the latest results from “Operation Wide Net,” a sweeping, multi-agency effort to crack down on child porn offenders. As the Press-Telegram reports, the 11 men came from Long Beach, Chino, […]
Three men the authorities believe are connected to a deadly liquor robbery have been appointed public defenders by the court. As the Las Vegas Sun reports, Lee Murry Sykes, Ray Brown, and Lee Dominic Sykes, all in their early 20s, face charges of robbery, kidnapping, and murder. According to the Las Vegas police, the suspects attempted […]
The Department of Justice has announced that it has convicted Louis Yeung of San Dimas, California for his orchestration of a $9 million bank fraud scheme. Yeung, the former vice president of Eastern Tools and Equipment Inc., pleaded guilty to creating shell corporations to fabricate transactions on a company credit line with East West Bank […]
The fallout from the leaked “Panama Papers” is still being felt all over the world, but as journalists and governments grapple with revelations of tax evasion and “offshore” holdings, many have wondered: where are the Americans in the leak? As several news outlets are beginning to highlight, several Americans have been named in the documents—and some of […]
When a foreign national is a subject of a criminal complaint, it is possible that governments will work together to try that individual for their suspected crimes. One of the most common ways this occurs is through extradition. Extradition occurs when one government asks another to apprehend and deliver the suspected individual to the country […]
In 2013, former Moreno Valley City councilman Marcelo Co was caught by the FBI accepting $2.36 million in bribes, an amount prosecutors believe to the be largest of its kind ever accepted by a public official during a sting operation. Now, due to the careful defense representation from Okabe & Haushalter, Co will serve just […]
Mohammad Hossain, the 19-year-old client of Attorney Haushalter accused of the sexual assault of a fellow University of Illinois at Chicago student has been released from Cook County Jail. The release comes after Judge Peggy Chiampas ruled that prosecutors failed to provide convincing proof of the crime. The incident in question was instead asserted by […]