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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of Florida, naming 9 defendants. By program: 7 PPP, 2 EIDL, 2 other or unclassified. 3 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 10 of them, from $100,000 to $7,818,167. Source dates run from 2021-12-20 to 2026-03-10.

Cases

9 defendants from 11 rows · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first

DefendantCase pageProgramChargeAmountDispositionSentenceDate
Patrick Parker WalshPPP, EIDLone count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering$7,818,167
obtained
plea66 months2023-01-31
Patrick Parker Walsh (CSV listed as Derek Esterly)PPP/EIDLwire fraud; money laundering (2 counts)$7,818,167
restitution ordered
guilty plea66 months2022-2023
Felicia Jackson StanleyUnited States v. Felicia Jackson StanleyPPP, EIDL, SVOGwire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and making false statements in connection to COVID-19 pandemic relief
Wire fraud conspiracy; money laundering conspiracy; making false statements
$4,800,000
fraudulently obtaining over $4.8 million in such funds; amount_attempted
guilty plea24 months2023-05-03
Wilbert Jean Stanley IIIUnited States v. Felicia Jackson StanleyPPP/EIDL/SVOGWire fraud conspiracy; money laundering conspiracy; making false statements$4,800,000
amount_attempted
guilty plea40 months2023-05-03
Jeremie SaintvilPPP, EIDLbank fraud, making false statements to a federally insured financial institution, aggravated identity theft, making false statements to a federal agency$1,560,628.38
amount sought
jury trial204 months2021-12-20
Sean Eric ThompsonRestaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF)wire fraud, false statement, money laundering, false statements$1,128,233
proceeds received
plea48 months2026-03-10
Joseph HardingEIDLwire fraud, money laundering, making false statements
wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements
$150,000
fraudulently obtained; restitution ordered
sentenced4 months2023-10-19
Mac C. JohnsonPPPfalse claims, tax fraud, wire fraud$100,000
(DOJ release)
civil settlement2025-03-28
Joe Nicholas CatalaCOVID-19 Stimulusconspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, passing or uttering a Treasury check bearing a false or forged endorsementplea36 months2022-03-08

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.

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

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