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U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia — 9 records in the archive: 8 court filings and 1 source document, dated 2024-05-21 – 2025-08-01. Most often docket sheets (7), orders and opinions (2). Listed in date order; each page carries the record's full text and, where we have a copy, the original document.

Prosecutions page: Western District of Virginia — the pandemic-fraud defendants listed for this district.

Facts

Records9 records
Court filings8
Source documents1
Cases4 (0 with a case page)
Dated2024-05-21 – 2025-08-01
Document typesdocket sheets (7), orders and opinions (2)
Listed under programsUnemployment insurance (9), Other pandemic litigation (1)

Records

9 court filings and source documents, in date order.

  1. Indictment — United States v. Josef Ludwig Brown et al. (Doc. 3, Western District of Virginia)Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Josef BrownFederal indictment (May 2024) of a Virginia ring accused of filing pandemic jobless claims for jail inmates.
  2. Plea Agreement — United States v. Crystal Samantha Shaw (Doc. 390, Western District of Virginia)Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Crystal ShawPlea agreement (September 2024): Crystal Shaw pleads guilty to a pandemic unemployment fraud conspiracy with $297,157 in loss.
  3. Docket 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS-3 — Doc 496-0Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Jonathan WebbGovernment sentencing memorandum recommending 41 to 51 months, United States v. Jonathan Scott Webb, No. 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS (W.D. Va.), Dec. 26, 2024.
  4. MEMORANDUM OPINION as to Russell Eric Stiltner — United States v. Brown et al. (Dkt. 586)Court filing · Orders and opinions · United States v. Brown et al. (Dkt. 586)Memorandum opinion on Russell Eric Stiltner's forfeited bond, No. 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS (W.D. Va.), March 12, 2025: $25,000 forfeiture set aside.
  5. 1.24cr17-011 US v. Stiltner - Final Order re set aside or remit appearace bondSource document · Orders and opinionsVirginia district judge sets aside a $25,000 bond forfeiture against a COVID unemployment fraud defendant, No. 1:24-CR-17-011, March 12, 2025.
  6. Docket 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS-1 — Doc 617-0Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Josef BrownGovernment seeks a high-end guideline sentence for Josef Brown, a leader of a pandemic unemployment fraud scheme.
  7. Docket 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS-2 — Doc 628-0Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Crystal ShawGovernment seeks 60 months for Crystal Shaw over a pandemic unemployment benefits fraud conspiracy in Virginia.
  8. Docket 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS-3 — Doc 664-0Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Jonathan WebbAmended judgment for Jonathan Scott Webb, No. 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS (W.D. Va.), August 1, 2025: 48 months and $150,281.30 restitution.
  9. Docket 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS-1 — Doc 662-0Court filing · Docket sheets · Vawd PUA Josef BrownJudgment for Josef Ludwig Brown: 35 months and $119,660.00 restitution, pandemic jobless fraud, No. 1:24-cr-00017-RSB-PMS (W.D. Va.), Aug. 1, 2025.

More documents from this court’s dockets

2 more source documents from 2 dockets in this court are in the archive. They are not counted in the records above.

Case No. 1:20-cv-00034

  1. Opinion — No. 1:20-cv-00034 (Dkt. 3, W.D. Va.)Source document

Case No. 5:14-cr-00046

  1. undatedOrder — No. 5:14-cr-00046 (Dkt. 50, W.D. Va.)Source document

Sources: the 9 record pages listed; court, dates and document types are as recorded on those pages.

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