Philadelphia Criminal Defense Attorney Hope C. Lefeber
Hope C. Lefeber has been practicing federal criminal law for over 25 years. She has represented high-profile clients, published numerous articles, lectured on federal criminal law issues and appeared on TV News as a legal expert. Ms. Lefeber uses her extensive experience to provide the most effective advocacy in federal trials, pleas, sentencings and appeals.
As a former enforcement attorney for the United States Securities & Exchange Commission, Hope C. Lefeber uses the knowledge she gained working for the government to best defend her clients.
Attorney Hope Lefeber has practiced federal criminal law since 1981. Hope served as an enforcement attorney for the United States Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC") for two years prior to going into private practice. She received a B.A. in Honors Economics from theUniversity of Pennsylvania, 1976, magna cum laude, and a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1979. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee, United States District Court Historical Society, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ("NACDL"), Pennsylvania Bar Association, Montgomery Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association. She is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and numerous federal district courts throughout the nation. She has published numerous articles, has lectured on federal criminal law issues and has appeared on TV News as a legal expert. Contact her firm today to speak directly with Hope about your case.
To seek representation by an experienced criminal defense lawyer, contact the Philadelphia law office of Hope C. Lefeber by calling 610-668-7927. Consultations are free and confidential.
Year added to woman's jail time for fraud
A twice-convicted fraudster who thumbed her nose at the criminal-justice system got her payback yesterday - another year behind bars.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe revoked the supervised release of Tiereney Brown in connection with a 2004 conviction for bank fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number and sentenced her to a year in prison.
The sentence will be tacked onto a three-year sentence that was imposed on Brown in April by U.S. District Judge Norma Shapiro
Published on 2009-06-27, Page 11, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)
Drug-addicted dad gets 30 years
Career criminal Edward "Extra"Stearn led two lives, as a drug-dealing addict and as a compassionate neighbor and father. Yesterday, before sentencing Stearn to 30 years in federal prison on a conviction for dealing drugs, U.S. District Judge Legrome Davis said that he was troubled by the defendant's conflicting sides. Stearn, 33, of Perch Lane near Pennypack Street, Holmesburg, helped out his neighbors and mentored two youths.
Biker boss gets 36-year term
Four years out of prison, John Napoli took a "scruffy, disorganized"outlaw biker gang and turned it into a well-organized $6 million crystal-meth-trafficking organization. And, like the head of a crime family, Napoli, 35, president of the Breed Outlaw Motorcycle gang, used violence to keep bikers in line in the Bristol-Levittown area, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Foulkes said yesterday, urging that the defendant be sentenced to life in prison.
PUSHER GETS BIG BREAK
South Philadelphia barber Linton M. Hargrove claimed he turned his life around by preaching against drugs and violence after he was caught in 1998 selling crack to a federal informant. Hargrove, now 25, got active with the 7th Street Youth Committee, helped kids find summer jobs, passed out toys at Christmas, cleaned lots and painted walls to beautify the neighborhood, and distributed food to the poor, his attorneys said.
LANDLORD JAILED FOR ILLEGALLY REMOVING ASBESTOS
A South Philadelphia landlord yesterday was jailed for 51 months by a federal judge for violating clean air laws by illegally removing disease-causing asbestos from a vacant school he owned. "I'm sorry. I made a mistake,"Thomas Chau said during a long, rambling and tearful plea for mercy. "School District sell to me. They cheat me,"Chau added, suggesting that he wouldn't have purchased the building.
Hope C. Lefeber offers legal counsel and representation to residents of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, and surrounding communities such as Drexel Hill, Haverford, Chester, Upper Darby, Warminster, Cheltenham, Norristown, Bensalem, Doylestown, Media, West Chester, King of Prussia, Collegeville, Wayne, Bryn Mawr, and Ardmore,Pennsylvania (PA). We practice primarily in Philadelphia County , Bucks County , Delaware County, Chester County, and Montgomery County, as well as in federal courts across the United States.
