U.S. v. Morgan Laed

Case summary

Dondre Morgan was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, No. 2:23-cr-00047, on March 10, 2023 on two counts of mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and one count of making false statements to federal agents under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2); the grand jury alleged a scheme beginning on or about February 28, 2021 that defrauded the SBA and other financial institutions of approximately $1,142,041.00 through approximately 110 fraudulent PPP loan applications. The page carries the indictment; the plea agreement letter of May 28, 2024, under which the government let Morgan plead guilty to Count 3 and agreed to dismiss the remaining counts at sentencing; the factual basis of the same date (Entry 55), which says a Pandemic Response Accountability Committee referral led investigators to at least 110 sole proprietor PPP applications around Thibodaux carrying the same invoice from a fictitious business created by Shamae Every, submitted through the Blueacorn portal to Capital Plus with funds paid into Current accounts, puts the loss attributable to Morgan at $55,945.33, and records that on April 7, 2022 he told VA OIG agents he had not applied for a loan, did not know Every and had no Current account; and the judgment of September 10, 2024, in which Judge Darrel James Papillion imposed 10 months on Count 3, concurrent with any sentence imposed in three listed state dockets, followed by 3 years of supervised release, a $100.00 assessment and restitution of $55,945.33 to the Small Business Administration, with Counts 1 and 2 dismissed on the government's motion. The hosted docket ends with that judgment.