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14 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of California, naming 14 defendants. By program: 4 PPP, 10 unemployment insurance. 2 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 12 of them, from $74,000 to $13,400,000. Source dates run from 2021-07-12 to 2026-03-23.

Cases

14 defendants · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first

DefendantCase pageProgramChargeAmountDispositionSentenceDate
Jason TolandPPP/EIDL/ERC/tax creditssubmitting false claims against the United States$13,400,000
attempted
sentenced35 months2024-11-19
Tabitha Leigh MarkleUI/PUAmail fraud and aggravated identity theft$2,590,000
obtained
guilty plea50 months2025-08-07
Aaron AshcraftAaron Ashcraft wire and bank fraud case — E.D. Cal., SacramentoPPP, UIPaycheck Protection Program fraud, embezzlement from a former employer, and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud$1,200,000
Paycheck Protection Program loans requested
guilty plea41 months2022-12-12
Deshawn Oshaea CampbellUI/PUAfelon in possession of a firearm and mail fraud$1,150,000
joint and several restitution
guilty plea87 months2025-08-07
Rochelle PasleyUI/PUAconspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft$1,150,000
actual loss
plea65 months2025-08-07
Terence Aubrey LarkerUImail fraud; aggravated identity theft$1,100,000
restitution ordered
sentenced58 months2023-12-12
Tracy Emery SmithPPPmoney laundering$901,035
PPP loan funds obtained
guilty plea37 months2024-05-13
Gurjeet BathFull Docket Gurjeet Bath Caed 451006PPPtheft of government property$825,000
stole more than $825,000 in federal funds
guilty plea14 months2026-03-23
Cecilia AquinoUImail fraud$300,000
obtained
plea72 months2023-03-27
Sholanda ThomasUIconspiracy to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims$250,000
intended loss
sentenced65 months2022-10-03
Christina SmithUIconspiracy, aggravated identity theft$250,000
intended loss
sentenced60 months2021-09-07
Jason VertzUIconspiracy to commit mail fraud, aggravated identity theft$74,000
actual loss
sentenced61 months2021-07-12
Ayodeji Jonathan SangodeUIconspiracy to commit wire fraudsentenced14 months2023-10-10
Quazeem Owolabi AdeyinkaUIconspiracy to commit wire fraudsentenced26 months2023-10-10

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; 2 of the 14 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.

Court hub: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California — every filing in the archive from this court, with the case pages it holds.

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