Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

Angelenos read the stories all the time and judge harshly: when doctors, chiropractors, dentists, pharmacists and other providers commit healthcare fraud in Los Angeles, we have a visceral reaction of disgust.

• How could someone charged with caring for the lives of our neighbors so grotesquely take advantage of their positions of power?
• Given our fiscal crisis at home here in California and nationwide, why would anyone try to rob the already fast-dwindling Medicare coffers?

If you or someone you care about has been charged with a crime, such as Southern California health care fraud – or even a marginally-related crime, such as insurance fraud in Los Angeles, credit card fraud in Burbank, etc. – you may feel an urge to respond defensively. First of all, the charge against you might be unfair, unwarranted, or overly harsh. But even if you did do something wrong, it wasn’t as if you sat up in bed one morning and decided to go down the “path of evil” for arbitrary reasons.

In fact, very few people engage in Los Angeles health care fraud schemes to be purposefully immoral. Quite to the contrary, Los Angeles healthcare fraud often begins when a professional or personal need is not met. For instance, perhaps you are a physician who got sick and tired of the way that the insurance companies treated you and withheld funds. Your practice suffered, and you found it more and more difficult to keep up with your workload, treat your patients with compassion and attention, and have a life at the end of the day.

So you felt like you “deserved” a little something back for your efforts.

Thus, you went down a slippery slope. You began to engage in illegal activities that grew in sophistication, size, and complexity over time. This continued until, of course, you were investigated, arrested and charged.

At the end of the day, yes, you engaged in stupid or illegal practices. But you were simply trying to even out an unfair playing field that prevented you from doing the good work that you went into medicine to do.

The question now is: What can you do to set the score right, make effective reparations, protect your professional reputation and license (if possible), and respond to critics, both in your community and in your professional and personal circles?

The Kraut Law Group has an incisive, compassionate, and highly respected team. A Los Angeles criminal lawyer can listen to your needs and help you develop strategies to minimize your penalties and maximize your ability to move on from this event. Attorney Michael Kraut is a former prosecutor (he spent nearly a decade and half as a Senior Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles), so he understands how prosecutors operate and how defendants can best fight the charges against them.

Those who drive under the influence in Long Beach and cause injury accidents are often ignorant of the law or of the consequences of their actions.

Or, at least, the conventional wisdom would have you believe that.

As we have covered countless times on this Long Beach DUI blog, all sorts of people are stopped, arrested, and ultimately convicted for DUI – some of whom even make and enforce the DUI laws. When lawmakers, police officers, prosecutors, and others who work in the Long Beach DUI system are tagged for such crimes, a big hubbub in the media and blogosphere inevitably sparks. Makes sense, right? After all, police officers, Congressmen, Los Angeles DUI attorneys, etc understand the dangers better than practically anybody out there.

That’s why a recent fiasco out of Etowah County, Alabama, has attracted so much head-scratching among Los Angeles DUI lawyers.

According to WHNT News 19, the police chief of Tuscumbia, AL, Tony Logan, was convicted by jury last week of misdemeanor DUI. Logan was sentenced to 30 days, and his driver’s license might be suspended. But his punishment is less interesting than the fact that he was not just a police officer, but the chief of police for a whole town.

Brandon Hughes, a local prosecutor, summed up the jury’s message: “Drinking and driving on Alabama’s roadways is not going to be tolerated. I just hope it sends a message to folks around the state…to be more careful…there are repercussions [for driving DUI].”

Is there any moral to this story? Can we learn anything from Tony Logan’s experience?

Indeed, we can.

Logan’s arrest and subsequent conviction demonstrates how easy it is easy for anyone -- even a super-educated Los Angeles DUI lawyer who understands the dangers of driving under the influence on a very personal level and who works with DUI cases on a day-to-day basis -- can make errors of judgment that lead to arrests, accidents, and worse.

Of course, this is not to excuse bad behavior or DUI – it is merely to place it in context. If you were arrested for driving under the influence in Long Beach or for engaging in other misbehavior behind the wheel, you are not alone. The transgression doesn’t make you a bad person, or even a bad driver. (It does, however, mean that you might need a Los Angeles DUI attorney.)

Going forward, keep the following in mind:

1. Learn from your mistakes, if you made any, to avoid getting into similar trouble.

To do this, you need to reflect on what happened: what caused you to misbehave or ignore the Long Beach DUI laws?

2. Deal with the reality of your arrest and charges.

A Long Beach DUI criminal defense attorney at the Kraut Law Group (444 West Ocean, Suite 800 Long Beach, California 90802 Phone: (562) 531-7454 ) will help you plan the next steps. Attorney Kraut is one of the most respected local DUI attorneys – he has a great reputation among his legal peers, a nearly immaculate record at jury trials, and he draws on his Harvard Law School education and background as a former Deputy District Attorney (14+ years) to deliver superlative service for his clients.

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Last Monday, 61-year-old Christopher Iruke was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for designing and executing a Los Angeles Medicare fraud scheme; he leveraged his position as a local pastor to defraud the government. Iruke and his wife, Connie Ikpoh, and Aura Marroquin (an employee) were convicted in August of Los Angeles health care fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.

Last Monday, US District Judge Terry Hatter sentenced Iruke for his role in the complicated scheme. According to a CNN report, during the 2011 trial, prosecutors presented evidence “that Iruke bought fraudulent prescriptions and documents…to bill Medicare for equipment that were either medically unnecessary or never provided”…for instance, they billed Medicare of about $6,000 for a power wheelchair that actually cost closer to $900.

As Iruke’s situation escalated and became more legally and logistically entangled, he asked his sister to protect him from a Medicare audit by opening two additional medical supply firms. Witnesses told jurors that Iruke and his coconspirators “paid kickbacks to street level marketers to offer Medicare beneficiaries free [devices and equipment] in exchange for the beneficiaries’ Medicare numbers and personal information.” Iruke and his conspirators allegedly leveraged these data as part of their complicated scheme.

Iruke’s case is classic in the sense that what started out as relatively simple and straight forward Los Angeles Medicare fraud escalated and became more complicated. Eventually, all of the complications proved too much, and the scheme collapsed. Unfortunately, individuals who have been tried for crimes like Southern California insurance fraud, Los Angeles credit card fraud, etc., often “dig themselves deeper” once they have gotten into trouble. When you compound your legal woes by committing more fraud and more crime, you vastly complicate the job of your Los Angeles white collar criminal defense attorney and reduce your odds of a successful outcome for your defense.

No matter where you are in the legal process, it’s never too late to begin to get proper and effective legal guidance. Connect with a professional at the Kraut Law Group to explore strategies to protect your legal rights and make the best out of your situation.

On January 1, Cedillo’s Law went into effect, which could reshape the landscape of Long Beach DUI field sobriety tests (and FSTs throughout the Southland). The law is designed to protect undocumented and unlicensed immigrants from being exploited by towing companies. It forbids authorities at FSTs for DUI in Long Beach and elsewhere from towing the car of a driver operating a vehicle without a license.

Advocates of the law are thrilled; they point out that towing truck operators exploited the old towing rule, particularly at intersections in East and South Los Angeles. A spokesman for the Southern California Immigration Coalition, Ron Gochez, told the Los Angeles Times: “They know which communities have a higher population of unlicensed drivers…we see it [the current towing paradigm] as a money making scheme off the backs of poor people.”

Cedillo’s Law was opposed by groups like the Los Angeles Police Protection League and by grieving fathers like Dan Rosenberg, who lost his young son in 2011, when an unlicensed driver crashed into him. Rosenberg told the Times: "I have a lot of sensitivity for people who are willing to risk their lives to come to this country illegally…but you can’t do that the expense of others.”

While we can debate the merits of Cedillo’s Law, the fact is that it is now law. Unfortunately, many drivers arrested for crimes like driving under the influence in Long Beach lack a complete understanding of their rights and obligations under laws like California Vehicle Code Section 23152(a) or 23152(b).

Fortunately, you need not struggle through the minutiae on your own. An experienced, thorough, and compassionate Long Beach DUI criminal defense attorney from the Kraut Law Group (444 West Ocean, Suite 800 Long Beach, California 90802 Phone: (562) 531-7454) can be your ally and advocate as you navigate new challenges. Connect with the team here at Kraut Law Group right now to understand potential options and make the most of your defense.

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On this blog, we talk a lot about why doctors, chiropractors, dentists, and others commit Los Angeles Medicare fraud. What drives them, psychologically, socially, and societally?

We also talk about what these defendants should do, how to grapple with the situation, etc. But let's take time to change perspective and consider the role of family members. If you are the spouse or child of someone charged with any Southern California white crime, such as credit card fraud, insurance fraud, identity theft, etc., you may feel mixed emotions about what's going on.

• On the one hand, perhaps you are shocked by the news of the arrest or investigation – you had no idea.
• Perhaps you knew that something “fishy” was going on, so you are not surprised, but you’re deeply disappointed and scared.
• Perhaps you played a small, non-negligible role in the fraud, and you are scared about what might happen to you.
• In any case, you are worried about the ultimate consequences, not only for your loved ones, but also for your life, future, financers, and reputation.

So what's the solution in this drama? How do you go about reconstructing your life, getting at the truth, and dealing with a cascade of revelations?

According to productivity guru David Allen, it’s never a bad idea to begin recalibrating by assessing “what's true now” in your world. Rather than spend time ruminating about what life was like before the Los Angeles Medicare fraud charges, spend some time identifying what's true in your world. What are all the things that are pulling on your attention? Once you have those categorized, you can then process, organize, and review them per Allen’s methodology.

Getting clarity about what's true is an essential first step. The next step is to gain clarity on where you would like to go. What you would like to be true, given your currently reality?

It’s best to find resources and mentors to help you through this process. An experienced Southern California Medicare fraud attorney, like Michael Kraut of the Kraut Law Group, can help you make sense of the chaos in your life and steer you in a positive direction.

No one ever expects the call.

When you find out that someone you love – a husband, wife, child, close friend – was pulled over for driving under the influence in Pasadena, your mind reels. What happened? Is he/she okay? Was anyone else hurt? What were the damage? Where are victims now? Questions like these flood your brain and overwhelm you.

In many ways, it takes just a simple announcement – a teensy bit of information – to radically change your perception of your long term relationship and of your life going forward.

Absent a dramatic metaphor, this discussion has been boilerplate. Of course, a Pasadena DUI charge will change your life and the life of everyone of your family. Of course, if you get convicted of violating California Vehicle Code Section 23152 (a) or 23152 (b) (or the injury DUI laws 23153(a) or 23153 (b)) life is going to be different and scary. You may face jail time, massive fines and other costs, insurance problems, driver’s license suspension, etc.

But those descriptions don’t really get at what it really feels like to be on the inside of a DUI defense situation.

Fortunately, we can turn to the Japanese for an appropriate metaphor.

Two weeks ago, a Tokyo-based infant formula company, Meiji company, issued a recall of 400,000 cans of formula because of fears that the baby food contained radioactive cesium. Officials are blaming the March 11 hurricane/tsunami that walloped Japan, which led to a multiple-core meltdown at a Japanese nuclear facility, which in turn may have indirectly contaminated the formula. Public health officials in Japan have been quick to reassure. But once the cat’s out of the bag, panic naturally sets in.

Likewise, once someone gets arrested for Pasadena DUI – irrespective of the circumstances – panic sets in.

What do you do? Who can you call? Why did it happen? How can it never happen again?

To make sense of all these questions, speak with an experienced, highly respected Pasadena DUI criminal defense attorney at the Kraut Law Group (790 East Colorado Boulevard, 9th floor, Pasadena, California 91101 Phone: (626) 345-1899). Attorney Kraut understands DUI law from both sides. For 14-plus years, he served as a prosecutor, during which time he prosecuted many Los Angeles DUI cases. Now, in his capacity as a criminal defense attorney, the Harvard Law School-educated Mr. Kraut works tirelessly to educate his clients and help them build the stiffest and most strategic defenses possible.

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Practically no one intends to drive under the influence in Glendale. Misjudgments, carelessness, and other factors come into play and ultimately lead to dire circumstances. It’s typical for Glendale DUI defendants to have trouble explaining to other people precisely what went wrong and why.

After all, everyone knows the dangers of driving under the influence in Glendale -- the serious penalties that you can face if you violate the law, not to mention the long-term costs that you will face financially, emotionally, and physically. Often what happens is not a thought out “breaking of the law,” but rather a momentary lapse of reason that has consequences well beyond the moment.

That’s all a little abstract. The explanation does not have the metaphorical punch needed to really communicate this feeling. Fortunately, the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters accidentally created the perfect metaphor to help give people perspective for what it feels like get busted for Glendale DUI. On December 7, the MythBusters team was experimenting with what happens to a cannon when it fires materials other than cannonballs.

Guess what? A massive accident happens!

According to the Times, the Discovery team fired a cannon at some trash cans, but the projectile went off course into a nearby home, where a couple was sleeping. Their bedroom was pierced by a 10-inch hole. According to the Times, “the cannonball was travelling as fast as a bullet. It exited the house, bounced across four lanes of traffic, struck the roof of another house and then smashed through the window of a parked minivan.” Fortunately – miraculously, perhaps – no one was injured. But the incident shows how small miscalibrations, accidental or even on purpose, can ricochet to massive, dangerous effects.

Likewise, when you miscalibrate how to drive in Glendale – drive too fast, drive while distracted, drive while DUI – the consequences can be metaphorically similar to the consequences of that misfired cannonball shot. Damages to life and limb can be the tragic consequence.

If you or someone you care about needs a Glendale DUI criminal defense attorney, trust Michael Kraut of the Kraut Law Group (450 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 600, Glendale, California 91203 Phone: (818) 507-9123). Mr. Kraut is a Harvard Law School-educated former District Attorney (14-plus years in that office) who has close relationships with those in the legal community and a terrific track record helping defendants like you.

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Most people who go to jail for crimes like Los Angeles Medicare or Medi-Cal fraud do not spend weeks or months ruminating over whether to skirt the law and ultimately decisively concluding to “lead a life of crime.”

That may be the way events play out on TV. But, in reality, the temptation to commit any Southern California white collar crime, like Los Angeles credit card fraud, insurance fraud in Los Angeles, etc is slowly and incrementally hatched.

In other words, there is no "a-ha!" moment – no epiphany where a doctor, chiropractor, dentist, or other professional makes an “evil villain” type speech and crosses over to the dark side.

Instead, what happens is that frustrated, angry, or opportunistic business people come to identify fraudulent activities as doable and acceptable, based on their circumstances. The human mind has an amazing ability to justify what it wants to justify. Thus, for instance, say you are a doctor who has spent years getting ripped off by unfair insurance practices and patients who skip out on bills. You may develop the belief that it’s right to “take something back” for yourself, and thus the seeds for Medicare or Medi-Cal fraud are planted in your mind.

You may develop this belief months, if not years, before you violate industry norms, but the belief sits there, eroding your good judgment and causing you stress.

The other thing to remember is that white collar crimes are often crimes of desperation. Or at least they start out that way. Perhaps you had a mortgage payment ballooning ever higher every month. Or maybe you have kids in school, and you need to pay for their education somehow. Or maybe you become aware of a gray market connection with a dubious pharmacy, or you read about some cunning scheme that another medical fraud artist pulled off in some other state.

The point is: what drove you to do what you did was almost certainly a real and understandable human need. Maybe you needed to protect your children, save your home, prop up the business that you grew and loved, enjoy the fruits of your labor. Whatever the fundamental need was, it was not necessarily a bad thing. The strategy that you may have employed might have been dangerous, stupid, illegal, etc. But avoid condemning the need that drove you to desperate measures.

Of course, platitudes aside, you need a specific, action-oriented plan to help you build a defense. Los Angeles Medicare fraud attorney Michael Kraut of the Kraut Law Group can help you discover the most picture perfect legal plan based on what you’ve been charged with.

This blog is not the only blog on the web to voice serious concerns over Los Angeles Medicare fraud investigative practices.

Indeed, it’s common knowledge that both state and federal efforts to identify, track, and thwart Southern California white collar crimes, like Los Angeles’ insurance fraud, credit card fraud, healthcare fraud and the like are stymied by bad processes and systems. It's a fiasco: there are problems with method, investigators who are not incentivized correctly, evidentiary mistakes, etc. Outsiders introduced to the system often blanch at just how out of control things seem to be.

Last week, an AP article crystallized the frustrations many people out there in the Los Angeles criminal defense community have been feeling:

“Contractors pay tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to detect fraudulent Medicare claims using inaccurate and inconsistent data that makes it extremely difficult to catch bogus bills submitted by crooks, according to an Inspector General’s report released Monday.

Medicare's contractor system has morphed into a complicated labyrinth, with one set of contractors paying claims and another combing through those claims in an effort to stop an estimated $60 billion a year in fraud. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General's report… found repeated problems among fraud contractors over a decade and systemic failures by federal health officials to adequately supervise them.”

This is huge. Huge.

Consider: $60 billion a year in fraud is not exactly chump change, especially in our current economic climate, where monumental political battles are waged over sums one-thousandth that amount.

The system to police and enforce antifraud rules seems broken. When healthcare fraud experts, such as Harvard University’s Malcolm Sparrow, say things like this – “Very few private contractors have financial incentives which are genuinely linked to protection of public funds” – how are we supposed to make progress, clean up the mess, deter fraud, punish wrongdoers appropriately while simultaneously protecting their rights and get them rehabilitated quickly?

Most people will read blog posts like this and just shake their heads at the chaos of it all. But what if you are someone who has been charged with a crime, like Los Angeles Medicare fraud, and you know (or at least you believe) that the charges against you are either blatantly unfair or at least trumped up and inappropriate?

With the investigative situation so out of control, how can you ensure that you are protected from arbitrary judgments that could destroy your medical, dental, or chiropractic career and lead to jail time, unimaginable fees and fines, and other long-term stresses?

Connect immediately with an attorney at the Kraut Law Group to discuss your Los Angeles Medicare fraud charges. Attorney Michael Kraut built a reputation as one of LA county’s toughest prosecutors when he worked in the Deputy District Attorney’s Office (14 plus years); as a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, he has proven himself to be a powerful, effective, and passionate champion for those who have been unjustly or unfairly charged.

If you or someone you care about was recently arrested or investigated for a crime like Southern California Medicare/Medi-Cal fraud, your life has been topsy-turvy.

The penalties associated with your charges could include substantial jail time and forced reparations. You could also lose your dental, medical, or chiropractic license. On top of that, a seemingly endless array of ripple effects could haunt you: e.g. loss of your professional reputation, loss of respect from your family members and peers, financial problems, etc.

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about being tagged for Los Angeles Medicare fraud (or Southern California credit card fraud, Los Angeles insurance fraud, or other so-called white-collar crimes) is the self-recrimination that often follows.

When most people read stories about Medicare fraud, they immediately jump to conclusions. A suspect may be deemed a “reprehensible person” or someone who “just doesn’t care” about sick people. If you are a defendant, you’d like to be seen in a more compassionate light, even if what you did, in retrospect, was not aligned with your fundamental values.

Because of this dissonance – you did something that violated your own values and principles – you may feel tremendous guilt on top of everything else. This pain can be uncomfortable and chronic, and may challenge you long after the fact.

Remedy the situation. First of all, become aware of your feelings about what happened. If you repress your feelings and thoughts about the event – the alleged crime, the arrest, everything that followed – you will never be able to learn from it and grow, and you may even compromise your ability to build a solid defense.

As any respected Southern California Medicare fraud attorney will tell you, the first step in any kind of legal defense is to assess reality. It’s less important to assess blame, guilt, wrongness, etc. It’s far more useful to discuss what happened; what motivated you to do it; why you became involved in the first place; and why you didn’t stop even after seeing warning signs.

Only with these answers can you begin to construct the most appropriate response to your legal situation. Connect with the team at the Kraut Law Group. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Kraut is an experienced former prosecutor who has the track record, compassion, strategic vision, and connections to help people charged with a complicated white-collar crime, like Medicare fraud.

Every driver in the valley is somewhat sensitized to the dangers of driving under the influence in Glendale, etc.

But if you are a parent, you’re probably especially aware of vulnerabilities that you and your kids face on freeways and even surface streets. That’s why so many people here in the Southland – especially parents – were alarmed by a story out last week out of New Jersey. According to USA Today, a 46-year-old bus driver, Carole Crockett was arrested last Monday afternoon, after she drove 25 children to Westhampton Middle School in NJ while intoxicated.

How “under the influence” exactly was Crockett?

According to newspaper reports, the bus driver blew a blood alcohol level of 0.25% – to put that in perspective, that’s more than three times the legal limit for Glendale DUI, as defined by California Vehicle Code Section 23152. (Indeed, the 0.08% threshold is the national standard, according to the Highway Safety Research and Communications organization.)

How, exactly, did this bus driver DUI situation transpire? Here's a quote from the Washington Post’s blog: “children in a school bus in New Jersey called their parents to say the driver was swerving and falling asleep behind the wheel. The parents called the Westhampton Middle School, which alerted police. Officers found Carole Crockett at Holly Hills High School trying to pick up more students.”

These extra details create new cause for consternation.

Number one: why did the bus driver continue to try to pick up students, after she was falling asleep behind the wheel? That’s terrifying.

Number two: how could any parent have known and thus prepared against such a contingency? The answer is: not even the most prepared parent could.

Per the Post, 46-year-old Crockett “faces 25 counts of driving under the influence with a minor and child endangerment.”

Obviously, most people react in a shock horror to stories about Glendale DUI school bus accidents and the like. But the reality is, any time you drive under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or even prescription medications, you potentially put not only your own life but also the lives of others in serious danger.

For help understanding your rights and responsibilities, connect with an experienced Glendale DUI criminal defense attorney, such as Glendale’s Kraut Law Group (450 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 600, Glendale, California 91203 Phone: (818) 507-9123). Michael Kraut is a former city prosecutor with a wealth of experience, deep connections with the legal community, and a reputation not only for stellar performance but also for passionate and powerful service.

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So much happened last week in Los Angeles criminal defense news. Yet one story dominated the headlines and even momentarily distracted the populous from the sad but ever-developing story of Lindsay Lohan’s DUI/probation violation/grand theft/morgue duty skipping/playboy stripping saga.

Let’s quickly recap some of the “big events” in the Murray-Jackson saga from last week. Last Monday, 12 jurors found the 58-year old doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter, just days after pop icon Michael Jackson's physician appeared on The Today Show. Sentencing has been set for November 28th.

But that wasn’t the end of the drama!

• A medical imaging company has sued the doctor for nearly $150,000 dollars.
• Different jurors have begun telling their stories to the media. One juror confided to the New York Daily News that “she voted to convict (Murray) because he made a covert phone call to Michael Jackson’s handlers rather than dialing 911 first."
• Another juror went on Good Morning America and said that she convicted the doctor “because she believes Michael Jackson would be alive today if it had not been for the doctor… 'Conrad Murray did it.'”
• Dr. Murray was placed on suicide watch.

And that wasn’t even the end of all the drama.

NBC aired a documentary, “Michael Jackson and a doctor – a fatal friendship,” which retold the Murray story from the doctor's perspective. October Films, a production company from England, followed the doctor through his trial. Michael Jackson’s family was hugely critical of the filmmakers, whom some alleged contributed significant money to the doctor’s legal defense.

All in all, it’s clearly a huge, complicated mess – just the kind of story about Los Angeles crime that the media loves and the populous eats up.

But aside from the distraction value, is there anything actionable that we can learn from all this hoopla? In other words, if you or someone you care about was recently arrested in the Southland for Los Angeles Medicare fraud, insurance fraud in Southern California, Los Angeles healthcare fraud, etc, can you learn anything substantial from Murray’s defense (or lack thereof) and the way that the trial was covered?

Obviously, Dr. Murray’s criminal situation – his charges, his relationship with the most famous singer of all time, etc – colored his case and made the situation unique. However, the rapidly evolving and difficult situations that Murray found himself in can give us insight. His legal situation quickly became chaotic as events unfolded. This can be normal. No matter how carefully you plan your defense, surprises can happen, often when you least want or expect them.

That’s why it’s so important to choose a legal representative who will be there for you, fighting for you, and making the most precise, strategic and effective moves.

Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Kraut of the Kraut Law Group (6255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 915, Los Angeles, California 90028) can help you. Mr. Kraut is a Harvard Law School educated former prosecutor with terrific reputation and a fantastic track record at jury trials.