United States of America v. Melissa Fireside

Case summary

A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Portland Division, indicted Melissa Fireside on two counts of wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 over PPP and EIDL applications. The indictment, filed September 2, 2026 as Document 1 in No. 3:26-cr-00337, alleges that beginning in or about March 2020 Fireside, the owner of a consulting company in Portland, Oregon, carried out a scheme to defraud the SBA and Amur Equipment Finance: an EIDL application sought approximately $150,000 and was declined; after a PPP application submitted March 19, 2021, the SBA wired $290,795 to a U.S. Bank account on April 1, 2021; and three checks diverted $273,930.38 of the PPP proceeds. A forfeiture allegation follows the counts. These are allegations. The redacted indictment is the only filing in the archive; the hosted docket shows nothing after September 2, 2026.