Case docket

Tarik Jaafar PPP and EIDL case — U.S. District Court, E.D. Va.

Tarik Jaafar PPP and EIDL case — U.S. District Court, E.D. Va. — 10 documents in the archive, dated June 19, 2020 to November 18, 2020.

Related docket: United States v. Monika Magdalena Jaworska — 3 public filings from the same matter under a different docket; 1 document appears on both pages.

Case facts

Court	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division
Docket number	No. 1:20-cr-00185 — main docket · CourtListener docket 483792
Filings	10 public filings
Filed	2020-06-19 – 2020-11-18
Original PDFs	10 of 10
Profiles	Tarik Jaafar

Case summary

Tarik Jaafar was prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, No. 1:20-cr-185, over Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications. He agreed to waive indictment and plead guilty to a single-count criminal information charging conspiracy to defraud financial institutions and the United States under 18 U.S.C. § 371. The statement of facts records that between April 7, 2020 and June 20, 2020 he conspired with his wife, Monika Magdalena Jaworska, to commit bank fraud and to defraud the Small Business Administration, using four Virginia companies they had registered. The government's sentencing position asked for 24 months' imprisonment, three years of supervised release and restitution of $220,573. Sentencing was set for November 13, 2020 and judgment was entered November 18, 2020.

Case at a glance

Defendant(s)	Tarik Jaafar; Monika Magdalena Jaworska named in the statement of facts as his wife and co-conspirator
Court and docket	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria, No. 1:20-cr-00185-CMH
District	Eastern District of Virginia prosecutions →
Program	Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL)
Charges	Conspiracy to defraud financial institutions and to defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371), single-count criminal information
Outcome and sentence	Pleaded guilty under a plea agreement filed August 25, 2020; judgment entered November 18, 2020 alongside a consent order of forfeiture and a restitution order of November 13, 2020. The judgment and restitution order PDFs on the page carry no extracted text, so the terms imposed are not recorded in the archived text
Counts of conviction	Pleaded guilty to count 1 of the criminal information, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to defraud the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 371, felony, offense ended 06/20/2020; sentence pronounced November 13, 2020 (judgment signed November 18, 2020, p. 1)
Sentence imposed	12 months' imprisonment (p. 2); two years of supervised release (p. 3)
Restitution	$220,573.00 pursuant to the restitution order of November 13, 2020; interest waived; due in full immediately (judgment, pp. 4-5). The restitution order makes the amount joint and several with co-defendant Monika Magdalena Jaworska (No. 1:20-cr-00180) and lists the victims: Sonabank $8,000; IncredibleBank $123,824.00; Harvest Small Business Finance $78,749.00; U.S. Small Business Administration $10,000, to be paid only after the other three are paid in full (restitution order of November 13, 2020, pp. 1, 3)
Fine and assessment	No fine ($0.00); special assessment $100.00 (judgment, p. 4)
Forfeiture	Judgment: "SEE Consent Order of Forfeiture entered by the Court on November 13, 2020" (p. 5). The consent order forfeits, under 18 U.S.C. § 982(a)(2)(A), approximately $182,136 in funds held in a Visla Capital, LLC account at United Bank, approximately $8,000 in funds held in a Global Capital Financing, LLC account at M&T Bank, and approximately $30,437 in U.S. currency found by the FBI on June 29, 2020 in the bags of the defendant and co-defendant Jaworska; a footnote states the remaining seized funds, $19,438.65, will be returned (consent order of November 13, 2020, pp. 1-2)
Status checked	2026-09-23 · against DOJ press releases through 2026-09-22; court docket not yet read

What did the government ask for at sentencing?

Twenty-four months' imprisonment, three years of supervised release, restitution of $220,573 and forfeiture of certain bank accounts and part of the cash seized at his arrest. The government put the advisory guidelines range at 24 to 30 months on a total offense level of 17.

What does the statement of facts describe?

A conspiracy running from about April 7, 2020 to about June 20, 2020 to obtain money from financial institutions through false PPP loan applications and from the Small Business Administration through false EIDL applications, using four companies registered in Virginia: Blue Pearl LLC, Global Capital Financing LLC, Washington Capital Group LLC and Vista Capital LLC.

How was the loss calculated?

The government's position states that the offense level included a 14-level increase for a loss of over $550,000 but less than $1,500,000, and that the government agreed to limit the loss to the amount disbursed by the lenders.

Docket

10 documents in docket-entry order; attachments follow their entry. Gaps name the entries we do not have.

No. 1:20-cr-00185

2020-06-19Criminal Complaint — US v. JaafarEntry 1
2020-06-19Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint — US v. JaafarEntry 2
—Entries 3–34 are not in the archive
2020-08-25Plea Agreement — US v. JaafarEntry 35
2020-08-25Statement of Facts — US v. JaafarEntry 36
—Entries 37–59 are not in the archive
2020-11-06Government’s Sentencing Position — U.S. v. Jaafar (E.D. Va.)Entry 60
—Entry 61 is not in the archive
2020-11-11Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum — U.S. v. Jaafar (E.D. Va.)Entry 62
2020-11-16Defendant’s Memorandum Regarding Good Time CreditEntry 63
—Entries 64–66 are not in the archive
2020-11-18Judgment in a Criminal Case — US v. JaafarEntry 67
—Entry 68 is not in the archive
2020-11-13Restitution Order — US v. JaafarEntry 69
2020-11-13Consent Order of Forfeiture — US v. JaafarEntry 70