Case docket
United States v. Reis and Hockridge — U.S. District Court, N.D. Tex.
United States v. Reis — 3 court filings in the archive, mostly from U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth Division), filed between November 14, 2024 and May 8, 2025. Among them: 1 indictment.
Related docket: United States v. Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge — 9 public filings from the same matter under a different docket; 1 document appears on both pages.
Case facts
| Caption | United States v. Reis |
|---|---|
| Court | U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth Division) (2 filings); U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth Division) (1 filing) |
| Docket number | 4:24-cr-00287 |
| Filings | 3 public filings |
| Filed | 2024-11-14 – 2025-05-08 |
| Document types | indictment (1) |
| Original PDFs | 1 of 3 |
Case summary
United States v. Reis, No. 4:24-cr-00287-O in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, is a Paycheck Protection Program prosecution of Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge. A grand jury indictment was returned on November 14, 2024 and a superseding indictment on May 8, 2025; both PDFs on this page are scans whose extracted text is page stamps only. A defense motion of May 2, 2025 states that the government has alleged a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit PPP fraud with losses exceeding $65 million, that count one alleges a single unified course of conduct, and that the defendants' companies assisted lenders in processing more than 800,000 loan applications.
Case at a glance
| Defendant(s) | Nathan Reis; Stephanie Hockridge. The companies named in the filings are FinCap, LLC, operating as Blueacorn, and Body Politix |
|---|---|
| Court and docket | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, No. 4:24-cr-00287-O |
| Program | Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) |
| Charges | Not extractable from this page: both the indictment and the superseding indictment are image-only scans. The defense motion describes count one of the indictment as alleging a single, unified course of conduct |
| Current status | see United States v. Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge — N.D. Tex., Fort Worth |
| Outcome and sentence | Stephanie Hockridge was convicted by a jury on June 20, 2025 and sentenced on November 21, 2025 to 10 years in prison. Nathan Reis pleaded guilty in August 2025 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison; the judgment was entered December 18, 2025. No plea, verdict or judgment appears in the documents on this page; a motion to dismiss was denied without prejudice |
| Status checked | 2026-09-23 · against the Justice Department press release on Hockridge's sentence; the release on Reis's sentence |
What does the government allege?
A wide-ranging conspiracy to commit PPP fraud with losses exceeding $65 million, according to the defense motion of May 2, 2025. That motion says the government's case-in-chief will focus on a limited list of loans the defendants were directly involved in submitting, or causing to be submitted, to lenders and the SBA.
What does the defense say?
That the loans on the government's list amount to fewer than two dozen out of nearly 2,000 applications submitted with the help of the VIPPP program Hockridge supervised, and out of more than 800,000 applications the defendants' companies assisted lenders in processing, and that fraud detection rested with the lenders and the SBA.
What is on this page?
Three filings: the November 14, 2024 grand jury indictment, a May 2, 2025 defense motion about expert witnesses, and the May 8, 2025 superseding indictment. Only the defense motion has extractable text.
Summary written from the documents on this page; every sentence is sourced.
Filings
3 public filings from this case, in filing-date order.
Court, dates and docket numbers are as recorded on the filings.