Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of California, naming 11 defendants. By program: 7 PPP, 2 EIDL, 1 unemployment insurance, 1 other or unclassified. 3 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 11 of them, from $300,000 to $77,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-11-17 to 2026-06-01.
Cases
11 defendants · 3 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Schena | Medical Technology Company President Charged in Scheme to Defraud Investors and Health Care Benefit Programs in Connection with COVID-19 Testing | Unclassified pandemic relief | scheme to defraud investors, health care fraud, and illegal kickbacks | $77,000,000 claims submitted (release: over $77 million in claims for COVID-19 and allergy testing) | sentenced | 96 months | 2023-10-18 |
| David Tai Leung | San Jose Restaurant Owner Sentenced To Two-And-A-Half Years In Multi-Million-Dollar Covid-19 Fraud Scheme | PPP/RRF | wire fraud | $5,000,000 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2024-06-13 |
| Christina Burden | Oakland Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Million Dollar Pandemic Relief Fraud — USAO California, Northern | PPP, EIDL | bank fraud, money laundering, false statements | $4,500,000 total pandemic relief loans attempted to obtain | guilty plea | 36 months | 2022-02-24 |
| Idowu Hashim Shittu | Castro Valley Resident Sentenced To 2½ Years In Prison In Connection With Prolific Pandemic Relief Fraud Scheme | UI | fraudulently obtaining pandemic-related unemployment benefits | $3,500,000 largest figure in the release | plea | 30 months | 2023-08-18 |
| Frank Mosley | Aaron Boren — United States v. Mosley et al, N.D. Cal., No. 4:23-cr-00134-AMO | PPP | conspiracy to commit bank fraud; aiding and advising in the filing of false tax returns | $3,000,000 proceeds received | plea | 30 months | 2024-05-17 |
| Cassie Will-Darnall | United States v. Cassie Will-Darnall — N.D. Cal., San Jose Division, No. 5:24-cr-00292-PCP | PPP | one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud | $2,800,000 fraudulently obtaining | guilty plea | 18 months | 2025-09-24 |
| Thomas Aaron Signorelli | PPP, EIDL | bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, theft of government property, obstruction of justice, and money laundering conspiracy | $1,900,000 loss alleged | plea | 63 months | 2026-06-01 | |
| Caesar Oskan | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Caesar Oskan, Northern District of California (Document 25) | EIDL | $1,493,904 restitution ordered | 18 months | |||
| Aaron Boren | Aaron Boren — United States v. Mosley et al, N.D. Cal., No. 4:23-cr-00134-AMO | PPP | $500,000 restitution ordered | 12 months | |||
| Miranda Devlin | San Francisco Woman Sentenced To 18 Months For Pandemic Relief Loan Fraud And Impersonating Attorneys | PPP | mail fraud, making false statements in a loan application | $368,800 total government pandemic relief loans unlawfully received from the SBA | guilty plea | 18 months | 2021-11-17 |
| Thanh Duy Nguyen | East Bay Man Who Claimed His Marijuana Distribution Business Was A “Nonprofit” Sentenced To Over Three Years For Pandemic Relief Loan Fraud | EIDL | wire fraud, false statements | $300,000 EIDL funds obtained | guilty plea | 37 months | 2024-12-20 |
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; 3 of the 11 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.
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