Alena Johnston Article Published in Criminal Law Practitioner on COVID-Era Fraud Scheme
Baker Sterchi associate Alena Johnston’s article, “Fraud in Feeding Our Future: An Analysis of ‘The Largest Pandemic Relief Fraud Scheme Yet,’” appears in the Spring 2025 edition of Criminal Law Practitioner, a publication of American University Washington College of Law. The article examines a series of Minnesota cases involving a pandemic relief fraud scheme tied to a federally funded child nutrition program.
Based in the firm’s St. Louis office, Johnston focuses her practice on personal injury, commercial litigation, trucking and insurance coverage. She is an associate of The Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court and serves as social media vice chair of DRI’s Women in the Law Committee (WITL), as well as the WITL liaison to the organization’s Insurance Law Committee. Johnston also volunteers as a legal instructor for the American Legion Auxiliary Missouri Girls State, a leadership program for high school girls centered on government, politics and law. She earned her law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law and is admitted to practice in Missouri.
Criminal Law Practitioner is a student-run publication that explores key issues in criminal law for practicing attorneys, judges, legislators and law students.
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