USA v. Snyder
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1:20-cr-00337
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April 03, 2025
Baltimore Atty Avoids Prison After $25M Extortion Conviction
A Baltimore attorney has been sentenced to three years of probation with six months of home confinement after being convicted of trying to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System.
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March 31, 2025
'Unprofessional' Pro Se Atty Can't Get 2nd Extortion Trial
A medical malpractice attorney was denied a new trial by a Maryland federal judge who said prosecutors presented sufficient evidence that he tried to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System, and called out the lawyer for "inappropriate, unprofessional, and unbecoming" behavior while representing himself at trial.
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March 20, 2025
Feds Seek 3-Year Sentence For Med Mal Atty's Extortion Ploy
Federal prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison sentence for a prominent Baltimore attorney found guilty of a $25 million extortion attempt against the University of Maryland Medical Center over false claims that the hospital knowingly transplanted "diseased" and rejected organs into patients.
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November 25, 2024
Baltimore Atty Convicted Over $25M Hospital Extortion Plan
A Baltimore federal jury on Friday convicted a prominent medical malpractice attorney on all charges in a case alleging he threatened the University of Maryland with bad publicity about "diseased" organs being transplanted into patients unless it paid him $25 million.
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October 23, 2020
Med Mal Atty Suspended Following Federal Extortion Charge
Baltimore medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder agreed Friday to be temporarily suspended from practicing law after he was charged by federal prosecutors with trying to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System.
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October 06, 2020
Feds Charge Baltimore Atty With $25M Hospital Extortion Plan
A federal grand jury in Baltimore has indicted a prominent medical malpractice attorney on charges he threatened the University of Maryland with bad publicity about "diseased" organs being transplanted into patients unless it paid him $25 million.