Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
10 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Middle District of Georgia, naming 9 defendants. By program: 2 PPP, 8 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $42,667 to $30,000,000. Source dates run from 2022-03-17 to 2025-12.
Cases
9 defendants from 10 rows · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macovian Doston | UI | participation in a scheme to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) | $30,000,000 restitution ordered | sentenced | 180 months | 2025-05-22 | |
| Tyshion Nautese Hicks | UI | conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal possession of a machine gun | $30,000,000 stolen benefits; restitution ordered | plea guilty plea | 144 months | 2024-10-25 2024-10-24 | |
| Malcolm Jeffrey | UI | conspiracy to commit mail fraud | $16,958,372 restitution ordered | trial conviction | 120 months | 2025-12 | |
| Anthony J. Boncimino | PPP | money laundering | $2,671,871.74 PPP loans obtained | guilty plea | 36 months | 2022-03-17 | |
| Sharmaine Simpson | PPP, EIDL, UI | wire fraud, conspiracy, false statements | $1,079,233.02 total amount illegally sought from pandemic relief funds by the conspiracy | plea | 30 months | 2024-08-22 | |
| Gerard Towns | UI | conspiracy to commit mail fraud | $365,066 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 72 months | 2025-12 | |
| Elias Benifield | UI | identity theft, wire fraud, conspiracy | $42,667 unemployment insurance (UI) benefits | guilty plea | 42 months | 2022-03-24 | |
| Shatara Hubbard | UI | Pandemic-related unemployment insurance (UI) fraud | sentenced | 72 months | 2025-05-22 | ||
| Torella Wynn | UI | unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme | sentenced | 12 months | 2025-05-22 |
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; 0 of the 10 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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