Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
8 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Columbia, naming 8 defendants. By program: 6 PPP, 1 EIDL, 1 other or unclassified. 2 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $41,666 to $2,538,000. Source dates run from 2020-11-12 to 2026-09-18.
Cases
8 defendants · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Gaughan | District Man Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison for Schemes to Defraud Small Business Pandemic Relief Programs | 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 more than $438,000 embezzled from the Archdiocese of Washington plus approximately $2.1 million in PPP and EIDL funds received (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 | Patrick Strauss, 54, of Washington D.C., Was Sentenced Today in U.S. District Court to 48 Months of Probation | PPP | conspiracy to commit bank fraud | $304,900 loan proceeds received | plea | 4 years probation | 2025-02-04 |
| Craven Randall Casper | Washington, D.C. Man Sentenced for Fraud Schemes Involving COVID-19 Protective Equipment, Tax Refunds, and Class Action Settlement Payments | PPE/Tax/Class Action | mail fraud, wire fraud | $235,807.11 obtained | plea | 36 months | 2020-11-12 |
| Preston Fleming | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud (1 count) | $172,500 funded (release: "the SBA and third-party lenders funded about $172,500 in loans") | guilty plea | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Teron Deandre McNeil | Fentanyl Trafficker Sentenced to 10 Years in Narcotics Conspiracy, PPP and Unemployment Insurance Fraud | 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 |
| Brittany Blalock | United States of America v. Brittany Blalock | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud (1 count) | $41,666 obtained (release: "the lender approved and disbursed two loans of $20,833 each to Blalock") | guilty plea | 4 years probation | 2026-09-14 |
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 8 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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