Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
3 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of Arkansas, naming 3 defendants. By program: 1 PPP, 1 EIDL, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 3 of them, from $600,000 to $134,000,000. Source dates run from 2023-06-08 to 2025-08-18.
Cases
3 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Joe Taylor | Lavaca Man Sentenced in $134 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme | healthcare | conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering | $134,000,000 amount sought | plea | 180 months | 2023-06-08 |
| Julia Youngblood and Fawaad Welch | Julia Youngblood, Fawaad Welch: Florida Couple, Formerly of Northwest Arkansas Were Sentenced on August 15 (Fayetteville) | EIDL, SBA7(a), Main Street Loan Program | wire fraud (Welch); misprision of a felony (Youngblood) | $6,131,511.16 restitution ordered | plea | 2025-08-18 | |
| Richard Harold Stone | UI/PPP/EIDL | conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business | $600,000 deposits of funds from applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Impact Disaster Loans (EIDL), and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) | guilty plea | 51 months | 2025-02-20 |
Data and method
Each row is one row of the pandemic-relief sentences table, printed as that table prints it: defendant, program, charge, amount and its basis, disposition, and the date of the source the row was read from. A blank cell is a blank cell in the table. The sentence column states the months of imprisonment the table records, or the years of probation where it records no custodial term. A case page is linked only where a case page in this district names the defendant; 0 of the 3 rows do. District is the table’s own district field, resolved to this court. Rows whose district field names only a state with more than one federal district are not placed on any district page. A date the table writes in another form is restated as YYYY-MM-DD; a cell that is not a date is printed as it stands. An amount of $1 billion or more is left out: those cells carry a program appropriation quoted in the source release, not a sum attributed to the defendant. Some defendants have more than one row because the table read them from more than one source.