Author name: Shaun Khojayan

Los Angeles, California — Mr. Khojayan’s client was charged with mail fraud and money laundering involving postage services spanning over 3 years. The defendants were allegedly using fake postage or underweight postage to ship products from China to the United States. The fraud resulted in over $34,000,000 in losses to the U.S. Postal Service. The lead co-defendant pled guilty and agreed to forfeit over 10 parcels of real estate to the government. The co-defendant was also cooperating against Mr. Khojayan’s client. The government offered Mr. Khojayan’s client a plea agreement that would result in over 12 years in prison.

Mr. Khojayan and his client rejected the offer. Mr. Khojayan carefully reviewed the search warrants against his client and discovered that the first search warrant — which was the basis for the additional search warrants — was deficient in several ways, including that it did not establish the credibility of the informants against Mr. Khojayan’s client or how the informants were shown to be reliable. Mr. Khojayan challenged the search warrants.

Los Angeles, California — Our client was previously sentenced in federal court for possession of over 100 videos and 600 images of child pornography and separate financial crimes. As part of his plea agreement with the government to resolve his charges, the client had agreed to a lifetime of supervised release and to not seek to reduce it.

However, since getting released from prison, he had been worked successfully in sales and been providing for his family. He paid his restitution and fines. The psychologist paid for by the probation office considered him a low risk of reoffending. He wanted to reduce and terminate his lifetime supervised release so that he could travel more freely including for his family winter vacations.

Shaun Khojayan filed a motion for the early termination his lifetime supervised release after he had served only four and half years of supervised release. Mr. Khojayan prepared and attached to his motion a list of over 90 cases in which similar (and worse) offenders had received only five years of supervised release. See Exhibit A. (attached here). The Court agreed to reduce his lifetime supervised release to five years and terminate it early. The client was overjoyed with the result. He was again free to travel out of state and the United States — without court approval or involvement.

The American Bar Association (ABA) White Collar Crime Committee selected to publish Mr. Shaun Khojayan’s article on Federal Criminal Non-Jury Trials with Specific Findings in its winter/spring 2024 newsletter.  The article details the different types of non-jury trials, when they may be appropriate, the importance of jury trials to our history and democracy and Mr. …

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Los Angeles, California — Mr. Khojayan’s client ran a business that promised customers guaranteed admission into U.S. universities. The government accused the client in Los Angeles federal court of immigration fraud based on the theory that the university admissions resulted in false issued I-20 immigration documents to enter the United States. The client’s defense was …

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Los Angeles, California – Mr. Khojayan’s client was a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who had recently turned his life around to promote peace in the neighborhoods. He was charged in Los

A three count criminal Complaint and Information charged our client with possession to distribute narcotics, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(1). The charges carried a minimum of at least 10 years in prison.

The postal inspector swore in his Complaint that he identified our client as mailing drugs from several post offices in San Diego to Tupelo, Mississippi