A father and son convicted of money laundering and other offenses related to a $1.75 million Paycheck Protection Program fraud lost their appeals for new trials Tuesday.
Both men raised arguments that revolved around their former lawyers being compelled to testify against them after they were charged with making false statements. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found none of them persuasive.
Tarik Freitekh claimed he was deprived of his right to his choice of counsel when his then-lawyer, Christopher Fialko of Fialko Law PLLC, was forced to withdraw due to the attorney-witness conflict. But it was ...
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