Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia
7 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Columbia, naming 7 defendants. By program: 4 PPP, 1 EIDL, 2 other or unclassified. 1 has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 7 of them, from $50,000 to $2,538,000. Source dates run from 2020-11-12 to 2025-12-19.
Cases
7 defendants · 1 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Gaughan | PPP/EIDL | one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in the PPP and EIDL case, and one count of wire fraud in the case involving the Archdiocese | $2,538,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 78 months | 2022-09-02 | |
| Elias Eldabbagh | United States v. Elias Eldabbagh — U.S. District Court, D.D.C. | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud and laundering the proceeds of the wire fraud scheme | $2,452,050 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 120 months | 2022-09-20 |
| Jennifer May | EIDL | one count of wire fraud | $1,500,000 defrauded | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-12-10 | |
| Patrick Strauss | PPP | conspiracy to commit bank fraud | $304,900 loan proceeds received | plea | 4 years probation | 2025-02-04 | |
| Craven Randall Casper | PPE/Tax/Class Action | mail fraud, wire fraud | $235,807.11 obtained | plea | 36 months | 2020-11-12 | |
| Teron Deandre McNeil | PPP, UI | conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl; two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $65,220 proceeds received | plea | 120 months | 2025-12-19 | |
| Nicole Nikisha Branch | SBA theft | Trafficking in stolen property | $50,000 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 12 months | 2023-2024 |
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; 1 of the 7 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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