Attorney Noel Gage and Howard Awand implemented a scheme to obtain clients or client referrals, inflate clients personal injury claims artificially and fraudulently, and obtain false and misleading testimony from doctors in support of personal injury lawsuits.
The defendants devised and participated in a material scheme and artifice to defraud and to deprive clients of the honest services of their attorneys, and to obtain money and property of others by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, promises, omissions of material fact, and half-truths, as set forth herein, and, for the purposes of executing, and attempting to execute, the scheme and artifice to defraud, caused to be places in a post office and authorized depository for mail matter to be sent and delivered by the United States Postal Service...
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