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Bank Insider PPP — 15 court filings in the archive. Among them: 6 orders and 1 information.

Case facts

Filings15 public filings (15 undated)
Document typesorders (6), information (1)
Original PDFs15 of 15

Case summary

This route holds 35 filing pages from two separate prosecutions, of which the case index links five. Twenty-nine are from United States v. Eric Rivera, Adrienne Ponzo and James Wessels in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Criminal No. 24-267 (KMW): scheduling orders, orders to continue in the ends of justice, conditions of release, attorney appointments and appearances. No charging document, plea or judgment is among them, and the government's Rule 12.4 disclosure statement names KeyBank National Association and the U.S. Small Business Administration as organizational victims. Six are from United States v. Anuli Okeke in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Docket No. 22-CR-20 (FB), where a jury found the defendant guilty on all four counts in June 2024. The New Jersey case is pending as of December 5, 2025; the charges are allegations.

Case at a glance

PartiesUnited States v. Eric Rivera, Adrienne Ponzo and James Wessels (D.N.J.); United States v. Anuli Okeke (E.D.N.Y.). The disclosure statement in the New Jersey case names KeyBank National Association and the U.S. Small Business Administration as organizational victims
Court and docketU.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Criminal No. 24-267 (KMW), Judge Karen M. Williams, arising from magistrate case No. 23mj2051 (AMD); U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Docket No. 22-CR-20 (FB), Judge Frederic Block
ProgramNot named in the filings on this page. The only relief-side reference in any document text is the Small Business Administration as an organizational victim
ClaimsNew Jersey: no charging document is on this page, so the counts are not verifiable here. Eastern District of New York: count one, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud; count two, wire fraud; count three, bank fraud; count four, money laundering conspiracy
Disposition or statusOkeke: jury verdict of guilty on all four counts, returned June 2024, with bank fraud marked as an object of the count one conspiracy. No judgment is on this page. Rivera and Wessels: scheduled for trial by the order of December 5, 2025
Status checked2026-09-23 · against DOJ press releases through 2026-09-22; court docket not yet read

What did the jury find in the Eastern District of New York?

Guilty on count one, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, with object two, bank fraud, selected; guilty on count two, wire fraud; guilty on count three, bank fraud; and guilty on count four, money laundering conspiracy. Jury selection was held June 3, 2024 and trial began June 10, 2024 before Judge Block.

What is on the page from the New Jersey case?

Procedural orders only, running from the July 26, 2023 order setting Eric Rivera's conditions of release to a December 5, 2025 scheduling order for trial as to Rivera and Wessels. There is no indictment, information, plea agreement or judgment, so no charge, amount or outcome for those defendants can be verified from this page.

Why do two dockets sit on one route?

The filings carry two different case numbers, 1:24-cr-00267-KMW in New Jersey and 1:22-cr-00020-FB in the Eastern District of New York, and the page's own case facts record only the second. The archive's filing dates for this route are blank, so each document's date is taken from its own filing stamp.

Filings

15 public filings from this case, in filing-date order; undated filings are listed last.

  1. undatedUnsecured Bond Entered as to ERIC RIVERA in amount of $ 100,000 (sb, ) [1:23-mj-02051-AMD] — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 10)PDFAppearance bond (Doc. 10, 07/26/23) in United States v. Eric Rivera, 23mj2051 (D.N.J.): a $100,000 unsecured bond signed July 26, 2023.
  2. undatedLetter from Attorney Jay Strongwater re 102 Order,,, Set Hearings — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 103)PDFDefense letter in United States v. Rivera, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), asking to attend the November 6, 2025 status hearing by phone or video.
  3. undatedSCHEDULING ORDER as to ERIC RIVERA, JAMES WESSELS:… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 110)Order · PDFScheduling Order, United States v. Eric Rivera and James Wessels, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), Doc. 110, 12/05/25: jury selection June 22, 2026.
  4. undatedORDER TO CONTINUE - Ends of Justice as to ERIC RIVERA Time excluded from 1/2/2024 until… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 15)Order · PDFOrder for Continuance through March 29, 2024, United States v. Eric Rivera, Mag. No. 23-2051 (D.N.J.), No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW, Doc. 15, filed 01/02/24.
  5. undatedFEDERAL RULE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 12.4 DISCLOSURE STATEMENT by USA — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 24)PDFRule 12.4 disclosure statement, U.S. v. Rivera, Ponzo and Wessels, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), April 17, 2024: names KeyBank and the SBA.
  6. undatedNOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE: MATIN EMOUNA appearing for ERIC RIVERA with Co-Counsel Phil… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 36)Notice · Dkt. 36 · PDFMotion to appear pro hac vice for Philip L. Reizenstein as counsel for Eric Rivera, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), filed July 1, 2024 by local counsel.
  7. undatedAffidavit Affidavit of Reizenstein — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 36.1)Declaration · Dkt. 36.1 · PDFCertification of Philip L. Reizenstein supporting pro hac vice admission, U.S. v. Rivera, Ponzo and Wessels, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), Doc. 36-1.
  8. undatedORDER Supplementing July 26, 2023 Order Setting Conditions of Release as to ERIC RIVERA… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 37)Order · Dkt. 37 · PDFOrder of July 1, 2024 supplementing the July 26, 2023 conditions of release for Eric Rivera, Cr. No. 24-267 (KMW) (D.N.J.), Document 37.
  9. undatedCJA 20 as to ERIC RIVERA : Appointment of Attorney THOMAS F BURKE for ERIC RIVERA — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 6)PDFCJA 20 form appointing Thomas F. Burke as counsel for Eric Rivera, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW, Doc. 6, filed July 26, 2023.
  10. undatedORDER advising of the United States' continuing obligation to produce all exculpatory… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 7)PDFRule 5(f) order confirming the government's Brady obligation in United States v. Eric Rivera, No. 1:24-cr-00267-KMW (D.N.J.), Doc. 7, July 26, 2023.
  11. undatedWAIVER of Preliminary Hearing by ERIC RIVERA (sb, ) [1:23-mj-02051-AMD] — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 8)Waiver · Dkt. 8 · PDFAO 468 waiver of preliminary hearing by Eric Rivera, No. 23-mj-2051 (D.N.J.), filed July 26, 2023, waiving a hearing under Fed. R. Crim. P. 5.1 or 32.1.
  12. undatedORDER Setting Conditions of Release as to ERIC RIVERA (1) 100,000 (Finance notified) — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 9)Order · PDFOrder setting release conditions (Doc. 9, 07/26/23) in United States v. Eric Rivera, 23mj2051 (D.N.J.), with a $100,000 unsecured bond and travel limits.
  13. undatedORDER TO CONTINUE - Ends of Justice as to Anuli Okeke Time excluded from 11/19/2021 until… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 10)Order · Dkt. 10 · PDFOrder of excludable delay, U.S. v. Anuli Okeke, 21 MJ 1092 (E.D.N.Y.), filed November 17, 2021: time excluded to December 31, 2021 for plea talks.
  14. undatedCriminal Information Sheet — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 12.1)Information · Dkt. 12.1 · PDF
  15. undatedORDER TO CONTINUE - Ends of Justice as to Anuli Okeke Time excluded from 10/5/21 until… — Bank Insider PPP (Dkt. 9)Order · Dkt. 9 · PDFOrder of excludable delay for Anuli Okeke, No. 1:22-cr-00020-FB (E.D.N.Y.), filed October 8, 2021: time excluded to November 19, 2021 for plea talks.

More documents from this docket

3 more documents from the same CourtListener docket (gov.uscourts.njd.546706) are in the archive but are not among the 15 filings above.

  1. INDICTMENT as to ERIC RIVERA (1) counts 1,… — INDICTMENT as to ERIC RIVERA (1) counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9,… (Dkt. 23)IndictmentIndictment (D.N.J., April 17, 2024) charging Eric Rivera, Adrienne Ponzo and James Wessels in a PPP loan fraud conspiracy with a bank insider.
  2. Bank Insider PPP — Doc. 94
  3. Letter Regarding Plea Agreement — United States v. Eric RiveraLetter

Court, dates and docket numbers are as recorded on the filings.

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