6-d - Main Justice

history. After two trials, I successfully prose.cuted seven guards and supervisors including the
second in command of the entire Mahoning county Sherriffs Department, Major Michael Budd.
Budd had ordered the most serious beating in the case, and I was able to negotiate fair
resolutions of the cases against the more junior guards in exchange for their testimony against
Budd, who was their supervisor at the time.
2004-2006
(a) the date of representation;
(b) the name of the court and the name of the judge or judges
before whom the case was litigated; and
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Judge Lesley Wells
(c) The individual name, addresses, and telephone numbers of
co-counsel and of principal counsel for each of the other parties.
Co counsel
Kristy Parker: 202-514-3204
United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. (Criminal Section: PHB)
Washington, D.C. 20530
Opposing counsel:
Martin E. Yavorcik: 330-744-7300
20 West Federal Plaza, Suite 2D
Youngstown, OH 44503
United States v. Akin Akinkoye et aI, 174 F. 3d 451 (4 th Cir. 1999).
Summary: Represented the United States in investigation and prosecution of RelMax realtor
who engaged in widespread identity fraud using information obtained from client files, among
other things. The defendant and his accomplice were convicted at trial on all counts and
Akinkoye was sentenced to between four and five years imprisonment. The case, which I
handled from investigation through appeal, involved application of then new provisions of the
access device identity theft provisions, as well as difficult confrontation clause (Bruton) and
sentencing issues. I was selected by the International Association of Financial Crimes
Investigators (as well as by the Mid Atlantic chapter) the Prosecutor of the Year based largely on
my work in this case.
(a) the date of representation;
1997-1999