U.S. v. David Christopher Redfern

Case summary

U.S. v. David Christopher Redfern, No. 1:20-cr-00340 (M.D.N.C.), is a Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan prosecution of Redfern and co-defendants Joseph Marsell Cartlidge, Eric Alexander McMiller and Jesse Kendall Griffin. The record opens with an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, filed under seal August 25, 2020 in No. 1:20-mj-00256 by Daniel Kwiatkowski, a Special Agent of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, concerning EIDL applications and a June 1, 2020 PPP application for Wilder Effects LLC requesting $410,322. The indictment filed August 31, 2020 charges Redfern with three counts of wire fraud and one of bank fraud and states that $410,322 in PPP funds was deposited on or about June 2, 2020. A superseding indictment filed December 1, 2020 names Cartlidge and McMiller as well and lists applications for Wilder Effects LLC ($410,322), Company 1 ($403,120), LBRNO LLC ($463,530) and McMiller Enterprises LLC (at least $584,000, denied); a second superseding indictment filed April 26, 2021 names Griffin as well. Cartlidge's plea agreement and factual basis are dated August 8, 2021; factual bases for Redfern and McMiller are dated September 22, 2021, each stating that the four collectively sought approximately $2,326,874 in PPP funds. An order dated January 26, 2022 revoked McMiller's pretrial release after he failed to appear. Cartlidge's judgment, imposed February 14, 2022 by Judge William L. Osteen, Jr., sets 72 months and restitution of $25,000.00 to the United States Small Business Administration and $473,659.37 to Celtic Bank. The last hosted filing is the Fourth Circuit's unpublished opinion of April 7, 2023 in Nos. 22-4196 and 22-4197, which affirms the sentences of Redfern and McMiller, reciting an advisory range of 63 to 78 months, a loss amount of $2,778,474.85 and a 60-month sentence for Redfern. No district court judgment for Redfern is hosted. The hosted docket ends with the Fourth Circuit opinion.