Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
17 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Colorado, naming 17 defendants. By program: 16 PPP, 1 EIDL. 4 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 17 of them, from $151,000 to $5,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-12-15 to 2026-05-26.
Cases
17 defendants · 4 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adepoju Babtunde Salako | Philadelphia Man Sentenced to 78 Months for COVID Relief Fraud and International Money Laundering | PPP/EIDL/UI | one count of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering conspiracy, seven counts of wire fraud | $5,000,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 78 months | 2026-03-03 |
| DeJane Reaniece Lattany | USA v. Lattany | PPP, EIDL | false statements | $3,437,072.81 proceeds received | sentenced | 48 months | 2023-08-16 |
| Fredrick Mendez | Man Sentenced to 41 Months For Stealing COVID-19 Relief Funds | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $1,589,565.75 restitution ordered | plea | 41 months | 2025-01-10 |
| Nosa Edokpaigbe | Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for COVID-19 Related Fraud | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $1,389,713 EIDL and PPP loans paid out on the scheme’s applications | plea | 60 months | 2025-12-04 |
| Richard Nieto | Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prison for PPP Loan Fraud | PPP | wire fraud, money laundering | $1,117,903.56 amount sought | plean | 46 months | 2025-06-10 |
| Edward Baker Harrington | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Edward Baker Harrington, District of Colorado (Document 45) | PPP | $1,078,033.50 restitution ordered | 51 months | 2023-07-14 | ||
| Carie Hallford | Second Southern Colorado Funeral Home Operator Sentenced To 18 Years In Federal Prison After Pleading Guilty To Defrauding Grieving Families, COVID-19 Funds | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $882,300 amount_received | plea | 216 months | 2026-03-16 |
| Patricia Gilroy | Florida Woman Sentenced to 19 Months for Fraudulent EIDL and PPP Applications in $865K Wire Fraud Scheme | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, false statements | $865,351 amount received as a result of fraudulent EIDL and PPP applications | not specified | 19 months | 2022-08-02 |
| Daniel Stonebarger | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Daniel Stonebarger (D. Colo., Dkt. 47, filed 06/02/22) | PPP/EIDL/UI | $822,604.08 restitution ordered | 41 months | |||
| Anthony Zaghab | United States v. Anthony Zaghab — U.S. District Court, District of Colorado | PPP/EIDL/UI | wire fraud, identity theft | $708,141 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2021-12-15 |
| Russell Bryant Lester | Boulder Man Sentenced to Prison for Covid Fraud | PPP/EIDL/UI | wire fraud, false statements | $584,851.75 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2023-02-07 |
| Jacob Schneider | Minnesota Man Sentenced After Self-Reporting COVID-19 Fraud | PPP | one count of wire fraud | $555,292.88 fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-01-14 |
| Charles Lacona, Jr. | PPP | two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering | $513,732.50 loan amount | trial | 24 months | 2025-01-28 | |
| Shambrica Washington | Owner Of Online Luxury Baby Boutique Sentenced To 90 Months For Defrauding Covid-19 Relief Programs | PPP/EIDL | 31 counts including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, and false claims offenses | $485,749 obtained (release: two EIDL and two PPP loans totaling $485,749.00) | sentenced | 90 months | 2024-09-26 |
| Brian Graham | PPP, EIDL | one count of wire fraud | $441,546.88 fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applications | guilty plea | 37 months | 2026-05-26 | |
| Russell Ray Foreman | USA v. Foreman — Chandler Simbeck filings, U.S. District Court, D. Colo. | PPP, EIDL | money laundering, wire fraud, false statements | $367,000 restitution ordered | plea | 66 months | 2022-08-12 |
| Chandler Simbeck | USA v. Foreman — Chandler Simbeck filings, U.S. District Court, D. Colo. | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to defraud the United States | $151,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and PPP attempts | guilty plea | 37 months | 2023-12-15 |
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; 4 of the 17 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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