Miami Beach’s ‘The Noble Attorney’ ripped off the VA to the tune of $124K
Choosing to bathe in cringe, crime and irony all at once, a Miami Beach lawyer named his company “The Noble Attorney” — then used it to swindle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of $124,809.
While the cringe and irony aspects carry no consequences, the crime part got Nabil Ibrahim Abu Nahlah time served, supervised release and an order to pay back the government $124,809. Pleading guilty to one count of major fraud against the United States also got him suspended by the state Supreme Court for having a felony conviction.
Abu Nahlah’s final hearing on the professional punishment end will be Nov. 12, 2025 before Judge Heloiza Correa, the case referee.
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State records show Abu Nahlah, who was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2018, created “The Noble Attorney” as an entity in December 2019 and put its place of business as his Miami Beach home.
In February 2021, his guilty plea admits, Abu Nahlah answered a VA request for quotes on nitrile medical examination gloves by saying The Noble Attorney would sell 50 million Mercator brand mCare nitrile gloves for $7.4 million. And 25 million of the gloves were in stock and could be shipped immediately.
Before the VA could approve the sale, they asked for a letter from Mercator stating that The Noble Attorney was an authorized distributor. Instead of getting an authorized distributor letter from Mercator, which is standard, Abu Nahlah did what you do when you’re a fraudster: go to a GoDaddy.com account, create “mercatomedical.co” — dropping the ‘r’ in ‘Mercator’ — and create fake Mercator International Sales Manager “Arthit Anong’s” email account at “Arthit@mercatomedical.co.”
Abu Nahlah sent the fake authorized distributor letter through the fake email account. The VA authorized a $3.9 million purchase of 25 million Mercator mCare gloves.
As stated in Abu Nahlah’s guilty plea, not only did the gloves not meet the technical specifications in the original VA quote request, but “many of the gloves delivered to the VA were not mCare gloves. Rather, they were a mixture of other, unapproved glove brands.”
The VA canceled the order. When VA’s Office of the Inspector General and the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations did a little digging and found Abu Nahlah’s scheme, they also discovered Mercator stopped making mCare gloves in 2020 “due to counterfeit concerns.”
They also found, “the VA awarded The Noble Attorney previous (purchase orders) for other pandemic related personal protective equipment,” the guilty plea said. “In one of those proposals, for the procurement of approximately seven million nitrile gloves, Abu Nahlah made similar misrepresentations as to The Noble Attorney’s status as an authorized distributor and... Abu Nahlah initially shipped different branded gloves to the VA without prior approval.”
This story was originally published October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM.
