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Hamza Abbas
One of six men sentenced for roles in a $20 million COVID-19 relief fraud ring led by Amir Aqeel — drew the longest sentence of the six, 44 months in federal…
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Elias Santino Acereto
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Minister Zakar Ali
One of four men a federal jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin convicted in October 2023 of schemes against the SBA, state unemployment agencies and…
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Syed Ali
A Sugar Land, Texas man in the Amir Aqeel PPP ring who, the indictment says, told a borrower trying to return a loan to "use it and then return." He was…
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Shan Anand
A Queens man charged in March 2025 as the first-named of six defendants in a check-fraud ring that, prosecutors allege, tried to cash about $80 million in…
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Lonnise Janelle Andrews
A Macon, Georgia woman who invented a company with 957 employees, asked the IRS for a $3,086,325 advance on COVID employer credits, and filed false income tax…
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Muhammad Anis
A Houston man sentenced in February 2024 to 21 months in prison for his part in the Amir Aqeel PPP ring, with $483,333 in restitution owed jointly with Aqeel…
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Amir Aqeel
Described by federal prosecutors as the leader of a $20 million COVID-19 relief fraud ring — sentenced in October 2023 to 15 years in federal prison.
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Vivian Arriaga
Defendant in a prosecution related to the Blueacorn founders' case: pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud…
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Artur Ayvazyan
Encino man convicted at trial in June 2021 in the Los Angeles PPP and EIDL fraud ring run by his brother, Richard Ayvazyan, and his wife, Tamara Dadyan…
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Richard Ayvazyan
Encino man convicted at trial in June 2021 as one of the two principal organizers of an eight-defendant Los Angeles ring that used fake, stolen and synthetic…
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Sherril Baez
A Freeport, New York woman charged in the $14.7 million Glenroy Walker PPP scheme who pleaded guilty in October 2024 to misprision of a felony.
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Yasha Barjona
A defendant who pleaded guilty in July 2023 to one count of bank fraud conspiracy in a multi-state PPP and EIDL fraud case in New Jersey.
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Sheyland Juakeen Barnett
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Zachary Bassett
A co-founder of COS Accounting & Tax (1099 Tax Pros) in Provo, Utah, indicted in February 2023 with fellow co-founder Mason Warr and the firm over more than…
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Allison Marie Baver
A Taylorsville, Utah woman and former Olympic speed skater found guilty at trial of seeking $10 million in PPP loans.
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Apocalypse Bella
An Oregon man sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $4,088,084.42 in restitution as the first-named defendant in a Southern District of New York…
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Robert Benlevi
An Encino, California man convicted by a federal jury of submitting 27 fraudulent PPP loan applications seeking roughly $27 million.
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Augusto A. Lemus Berríos
A defendant in a Puerto Rico PPP and EIDL ring, alias "Primo," who the indictment says prepared fake supporting documents for loan applications; by April 2025…
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Wayne Bessant
A Hamilton Township, New Jersey man charged in November 2025 as the organizer of a ring that took over or imitated the identities of businesses whose Treasury…
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Aziz Hassan Bey
One of four men convicted by a federal jury for a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration and a state agency of $9.5 million.
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Letez Osiris Bey
One of four men convicted at trial in a Milwaukee EIDL, PPP and unemployment-fraud case; he filed jobless claims in other people's names in Illinois and…
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Keyaira Bostic
Pembroke Pines, Florida woman convicted by a federal jury in November 2021 of obtaining an $84,515 PPP loan on false payroll figures, paying a kickback to…
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Carlos Manfredo Pentzke Chamorro
A defendant in a Puerto Rico PPP and EIDL ring, alias "El Doctor," who took two $20,800 PPP loans and a $104,000 EIDL loan, pleaded guilty to three wire-fraud…
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Ross Charno
A Fort Lauderdale, Florida man charged as part of a nationwide PPP fraud scheme that sought more than $24 million and disbursed over $17 million.
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Andre Clark
A Miramar, Florida man who got a $488,565 PPP loan for his company and was sentenced in July 2021 to 33 months in prison.
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Michael Cota
Defendant in a prosecution related to the Blueacorn founders' case: pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud…
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Tamara Dadyan
Encino woman the Ninth Circuit named one of the two principal organizers of a Los Angeles PPP and EIDL fraud ring; she pleaded guilty in June 2021, was…
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Meelad Dezfooli
A Nevada man, also known as "James Dez," convicted of fraudulently obtaining over $11.2 million in PPP loans across three shell companies.
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Divine-Seven El
The longest sentence among four Milwaukee-area men convicted at trial of chasing more than $9.5 million in EIDL and PPP loans: 150 months in prison, imposed…
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Kendra Michelle Eley
A Norfolk, Virginia woman who filed eight quarterly payroll returns reporting 18 employees who did not exist, using the employer ID of her cleaning business…
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Lisa Evans
An Olive Branch, Mississippi tax-preparation business owner who pleaded guilty to defrauding COVID-19 relief programs of more than $5 million, and was…
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Abdul Fatani
A 57-year-old Richmond, Texas man convicted at trial for a scheme that sought over $35 million through more than 80 fraudulent PPP loans — sentenced to 36…
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Maurice Fayne
Owner of Flame Trucking and a cast member of "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"; pleaded guilty in N.D. Ga.
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Leland Fishback
A St. George, Utah businessman who filed 22 false payroll returns for four of his own businesses, including one called Circle CPA, and collected $482,058.46…
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James Sean Freeman II
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Kenneth Gaughan
A Washington, D.C. man who defrauded the Archdiocese of Washington and small-business pandemic relief programs of more than $2.5 million.
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Norma Getten
A Bronx woman who pleaded guilty in May 2024 to conspiracy in Glenroy Walker and Howard Levy's PPP scheme.
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Ryan Glidewell
A Kingsport, Tennessee man who led a ring that set up at least eleven phony businesses with no employees and filed employment tax returns for them, claiming…
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Candies Goode-McCoy
A Las Vegas business owner who filed about 1,227 false employment tax returns claiming COVID-19 credits for herself and others, seeking more than $98 million…
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Kevin J. Gregory
A Hollywood man who claimed about $65 million in COVID-19 employment tax credits for a Beverly Hills "farming-and-transportation company" that employed nobody.
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Yves Garry Harrison-Pierre
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Leon Haynes
A Teaneck, New Jersey tax preparer who filed more than 1,900 false employment tax returns claiming COVID-19 credits, sought more than $170 million and got…
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David T. Hines
A 29-year-old Miami man sentenced to more than six years in prison for fraudulently obtaining approximately $3.9 million in PPP loans, part of which bought…
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Austin Hsu
A Washington man charged, then convicted, in a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme — sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay over $709,000 in restitution.
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Casie Hynes
A Los Angeles woman who got about $2.26 million from more than 80 fraudulent PPP and EIDL applications in the names of about 20 companies, including Nasty…
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Ashley Clark Ingram
The finance and operations director of Habitat for Humanity of Central South Carolina, who applied for the charity's Employee Retention Credit without its…
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William Ingram
A defendant who pleaded guilty in July 2023 to one count of bank fraud conspiracy in a multi-state PPP and EIDL fraud case in New Jersey.
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Tarik Jaafar
An Ashburn, Virginia man who, with his wife, applied for 18 PPP loans worth $6.6 million for four companies with no employees.
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Brandon Jackson
A Texas man sentenced to 33 months in prison and $1,772,453 in restitution for an EIDL fraud run alongside a larger Southern District of New York PPP case.
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Dantavious Jackson
A Union City, Georgia truck-company owner who ran a side business as a "ghost" tax preparer and filed 35 payroll returns for himself and two clients claiming…
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Nadine Consuelo Jackson
A Dayton, Ohio "investigation and security" business owner sentenced to 24 months in prison after admitting to a COVID-relief fraud scheme involving an SBA…
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Sniders Jean-Jacques
A Miami tax preparer indicted with three others in Boston on a PPP wire-fraud conspiracy that, prosecutors say, obtained about $7 million in loans and took…
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Rudolph Johnson
A New Jersey man, also known as "Bishop Salis Shwade," charged in March 2024 with two others over 131 tax filings for sham entities that claimed about $2.92…
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Tonye Johnson
A Pennsylvania towing-company owner who got a $389,627 PPP loan on falsified records in a $24 million South Florida scheme; he pleaded guilty and was…
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Tyrone Tatrice Johnson
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Manfred A. Pentzke Lemus
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico man described in court documents as the principal organizer of a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme charged with at least 272 fraudulent PPP…
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Howard Levy
A Bronx man who, prosecutors said, ran a $14.7 million PPP application scheme with Glenroy Walker; he pleaded guilty in August 2024 and was sentenced in May…
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Hardell Mack
A New Orleans man who pleaded guilty in March 2026 to four fraudulent PPP loans, a mail-fraud conspiracy that got $625,310 in Employee Retention Credit money…
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Raheel Malik
A Sugar Land, Texas man who pleaded guilty in November 2021 in the Amir Aqeel PPP ring, waited more than two years for sentencing and received 18 months in…
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Alvin Maxwell
A Texas business owner sentenced to 18 months in prison, the shortest term of the five defendants in a Southern District of New York PPP fraud case…
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Marcus Dushun McMillian-Bonner
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Halee Ann Mehlbauer
A Tooele, Utah woman the U.S. Attorney's Office called the ringleader of a PPP loan scheme run through businesses that did not exist; sentenced in December…
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Amos Mundendi
A Texas man sentenced to 42 months in prison for his part in a Southern District of New York PPP fraud conspiracy that, according to prosecutors, tried to…
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Vinath Oudomsine
Georgia man who pleaded guilty to wire fraud over an $85,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan, $57,789 of which bought a 1999 first-edition Charizard Pokémon…
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Brian T. Owen
The president of a bankrupt Bossier City, Louisiana oilfield consulting company who intercepted its Employee Retention Credit checks, about $3.8 million, and…
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Nishant Patel
The manager of a Houston trucking company that got a $474,993 PPP loan on false payroll figures; he supplied about 195 fake payroll checks, paid Amir Aqeel a…
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Lakisha Pearson
Owner of Unity Tax Express in Holly Springs, Mississippi, who filed Employee Retention Credit claims totaling nearly $47 million for people who, prosecutors…
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Ligia María Lemus De Pentzke
A defendant in a Puerto Rico PPP and EIDL ring who, the indictment says, collected kickbacks and passed them on.
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Jesus Acosta Perez
A Houston diesel-repair and trucking owner whose two companies received $391,300 in PPP loans in 2020; he passed half of one loan to a co-conspirator and used…
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Jaleel Phillips
A 25-year-old Capitol Heights, Maryland man sentenced to 30 months in federal prison over fraudulent COVID-19 loans and unemployment benefits.
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Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint
A 25-year-old Fort Lauderdale man, born in Haiti, who ran a $3.8 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme while concealing it during his naturalization interview…
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Adrienne Ponzo
A Bear, Delaware woman who prepared fraudulent PPP and EIDL applications in a multi-state COVID-19 relief fraud scheme — at large when charged in July 2023…
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Donnat Powell
A Paterson, New Jersey man charged in the $14.7 million Glenroy Walker PPP scheme and sentenced in November 2023 to time served.
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Kelli Prather
A Cincinnati woman who sought more than $1.2 million in PPP and EIDL loans, received about $19,800 and was sentenced to 84 months in prison; three of her EIDL…
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Damian R. Raby
A Gonzales, Louisiana man who invented Baton Rouge-area businesses, got them employer ID numbers and bank accounts, and collected more than 30 IRS checks…
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Carnell Ragan
A Philadelphia man who recruited more than 20 people with idle or employee-less businesses and used their information to file payroll returns seeking over $20…
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Eric Rivera
A Norcross, Georgia man charged as the orchestrator of a multi-state COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, accused of recruiting businesses into the fraud and taking…
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Timmy G. Robinson Jr.
The founder and owner of Addiction Recovery Care, an eastern Kentucky drug-treatment chain, indicted in June 2026 on charges that he sold the company's two…
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Dinesh Sah
A Texas man who submitted 15 fraudulent PPP loan applications to eight lenders using 11 companies, obtaining roughly $17.3 million of a $24 million scheme —…
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Sieff Robert Sargeant
One of five people charged by complaint on July 19, 2023, in a multi-state COVID-19 relief program bank-fraud conspiracy in New Jersey, accused of signing PPP…
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Richard Dean Schiele Jr.
An Independence, Missouri man who formed a company in April 2023 and that same month filed nine quarterly payroll returns claiming $1,392,716 in COVID credits…
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Nathan Jeffry Scott
One of seven Las Vegas men indicted separately in June 2026 over PPP and EIDL loans that, by prosecutors' count, total $205,639 across all seven; he is…
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Eric Shibley
Former Seattle doctor convicted by a jury in November 2021 on fifteen counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering over 26 PPP and 13 EIDL…
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Shawn Michael Simmerer
The founder of a Florida "leadership training" company, Your 10 Life Foundation, who got more than $344,000 in forgiven PPP loans and more than $680,000 in…
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Harjeet Singh
Sentenced in January 2024 to five years of probation and $486,083 owed to the SBA: the one non-prison sentence among the nine Amir Aqeel PPP ring defendants…
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Oumar Sissoko
A Riverside County, California man convicted by a federal jury of misappropriating a $7.25 million PPP loan obtained for his company, Road Doctor California…
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Christopher Slater
A California man indicted in Harrisburg in July 2026 on charges that he recruited business owners and used their information to file at least 280 false…
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Diamond Blue Smith
A 36-year-old Miramar, Florida recording artist charged, alongside a Pennsylvania man, in a $24 million PPP fraud scheme that saw his Ferrari seized.
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Lisa Smith
A Cornelius, North Carolina woman who admitted, in a New Jersey federal case, to a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 relief fraud scheme involving at least 29 PPP…
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Thomas Smith
A Pewaukee, Wisconsin man sentenced to 57 months in prison and $960,000 in restitution after admitting he sought more than $1.2 million in PPP loans for eight…
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David Staveley
Pleaded guilty on May 17, 2021 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and failure to appear (D.R.I. 1:20-cr-00074-MSM) over four PPP applications seeking…
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James Stote
Hollywood, Florida man who, with a manager of professional football players, led a nationwide PPP fraud scheme in which he submitted or facilitated at least…
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Isaiah Aaron Tenryk
A Brooklyn man who opened a Boston bank account in the stolen name of a New Jersey corporate executive and deposited that executive's company's Employee…
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Marietta Terabelian
Encino woman convicted at trial in June 2021 in the Los Angeles PPP and EIDL fraud ring organized by her husband, Richard Ayvazyan; she absconded with him…
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Darrell Thomas
Johns Creek, Georgia man whom federal prosecutors called the mastermind of an Atlanta scheme that obtained 14 fraudulent PPP loans totaling about $11.1…
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Kristopher Thomas
A California state prisoner serving 50 years to life for a 2010 murder, charged in 2024 with running, from his cell at Kern Valley State Prison, a conspiracy…
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Jason Toland
A Wheatland, California man who used shell companies with no employees to seek more than $11 million in Employee Retention Credit and sick-leave refunds and…
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Mackenzy Toussaint
The man a federal judge called the "ringleader" of a PPP and EIDL scheme that tried for more than $30 million; sentenced in November 2022 to 90 months in…
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Ammas Uddin
A Richmond, Texas man sentenced in February 2024 to 18 months in prison and $498,415 in restitution to the SBA.
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Arham Uddin
The youngest of six Houston-area men sentenced together in February 2024 in the Amir Aqeel PPP ring: 18 months in prison and $491,664 in restitution, owed…
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Jonatan Ben David Prieto Ruiz De Val
The courier of a Puerto Rico PPP and EIDL ring, alias "Johnny Millones," who delivered kickbacks, took $123,000 in loans himself and was the first of six…
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Glenroy Walker
A New Rochelle, New York man who, with Howard Levy, filed more than 100 PPP applications seeking $14.7 million; a jury convicted him on all five counts in…
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Renata Walton
Owner of R&B Tax Express in Moscow, Tennessee, who pleaded guilty in March 2026 to a scheme that claimed nearly $80 million in Employee Retention Credits…
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James Wessels
A Middletown, Delaware man charged with creating fake payroll checks and fraudulent tax forms in a multi-state COVID-19 relief fraud scheme.
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Gary Wheeler
A Mount Vernon, New York businessman who received $412,375 in PPP loans for three companies through the Glenroy Walker and Howard Levy scheme.
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Attallah Williams
A Hampton, Georgia woman who worked first as an SBA loan officer and then as an IRS tax examining technician, and used both jobs to push through fraudulent…
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Keith Williams
The West Hempstead, New York owner of a credit-repair storefront called Credit Reset, charged in January 2025 as the lead defendant in what the Justice…
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