The Umansky Law Firm

Our lawyers were recently successful in defending a client accused of three counts of aggravated battery. A college student had been charged with running over three separate people with his car. After deposing the witnesses and exposing conflict in their stories, the government dropped all three charges. The client had been looking at up to 45 years in prison if found guilty. Instead, our own Zahra Umansky got the state to agree to a plea deal of one first degree misdemeanor charge of battery; the client only got probation.

If you have found yourself on the wrong side of the law, we can help. Please contact our office today to schedule your private consultation.

What do New Kids on the Block, ‘N Sync and O’Town have in common besides being annoying boy bands that are now defunct? Lou Perlman. Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman, who met NKOTB and then became obsessed with boy bands, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for a variety of financial crimes against investors including fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and making a false claim in a bankruptcy hearing.

The judge told Perlman that for every $1 million he paid back to his victims, he’d shave one month off his 300-month sentence. If Perlman can come up with the full $300 million he stole from innocent victims, then he can avoid prison. Perlman claims he’s broke, however.

In March of this year, 53-year-old Perlman admitted to running a scam for years. He apologized to his victims in court, and his attorney said he had always planned to pay the money back. In 2006, Perlman had fled the country but was later found in a lush resort town in Indonesia registered in a hotel under the name Incognito Johnson. Hard to believe he was found with such a clever assumed name.

If you, like Lou Perlman, have found yourself on the other side of the law, you need experienced legal help. The attorneys at The Umansky Law Firm have experience with financial crimes and will meet with you to discuss your case. Please contact our office today.

A toddler whose own father is charged with manslaughter in his shooting had cocaine in his urine according to the autopsy report. The twenty-two-month-old may have found his father’s gun between a mattress and box spring.

The boy’s father is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the March 9, 2008 death of his son. The man claims he bought the gun from a friend after he was assaulted and robbed in an apartment complex.

If you have found yourself on the wrong side of the law and don’t know what to do, the experienced criminal defense attorneys at The Umansky Law Firm can help. Please contact our office today to schedule your confidential consultation.

Last week, three Florida teenagers were arrested for sexually assaulting a girl on a school bus. One of the males arrested was eighteen years old, one was 15 and one was 16. The two younger males’ identities were not resulted due to their age. The students attend Dixie Hollins High School in Pinellas, Florida.

The alleged assault occurred when the bus driver stepped away. Eighteen-year-old Branden Allen sneaked on the bus while the younger boys served as lookouts. Allen was taken to the county jail, and the younger suspects were taken to the Pinellas Juvenile Assessment Center.

If you have been charged with a felony or misdemeanor in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your confidential consultation.

Six college fraternities at San Diego State University have been suspended after a huge drug investigation that landed some members of three of the fraternities in jail on suspicion of dealing drugs openly on campus. The probe was prompted by the cocaine overdose last year of a freshman sorority member. All tolled, 96 people, 75 of them University students, have been arrested so far during the investigation.

Twenty-nine people were arrested earlier this week in raids at nine locations. Agents found cocaine, Ecstasy, and three guns at Theta Chi. Eighteen of the 19 arrested were wanted on warrants for selling to undercover agents.

Theta Chi and five other fraternities have been suspended pending a hearing on evidence.

Those arrested are charged with dealing drugs, sometimes quite openly, on campus. One fraternity member even sent out a mass text message advertising special prices on cocaine. Those arrested included two students about to receive the following degrees: criminal justice and homeland security.

If you have found yourself facing drug charges in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your private consultation.

Domestic abuse is typically classified in one of these groups: emotional, physical, sexual, or economic. Many people who are the abuser in an abusive relationship abuse in more than one of these ways.

Emotional (often called psychological abuse) can be both verbal or nonverbal. The goal of the abuser is to chip away at your self-confidence and sense of self (independence). The abuser usually wants you to be dependent on her him completely. Emotional abuse will involve name-calling, insulting remarks, blaming and shaming. You may be isolated from family and friends if you are being emotionally abused. Your abuser typically wants to keep you all to himself (herself) to fully control you. The scars of emotional abuse are just as real as the scars from physical abuse, and they run deeply. Emotional abuse usually worsens over time and often escalates to physical abuse.

Physical abuse can involve punching, slapping, kicking, choking, or throwing things at a victim. Some physical abuse is so bad that the victim eventually dies from being abused. Many abuse victims are often killed by their abuser.

Sexual abuse is common in already-abusive relationships. According to statistics, between a third and one-half of all battered women are raped by their partners at least once in the course of the relationship.

Economic abuse involves controlling you by controlling your finances. Your abuser may withhold money or credit cards; give you a small allowance only; make you account for everything you spend; steal money from you; prevent you from working; etc.

If you have found yourself losing control and abusing your partner or family member and have been arrested for it, please contact the Umansky Law Firm in Orlando today to schedule your private consultation.