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 10 defendants. By program: 5 PPP, 5 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $14,926.40 to $30,000,000. Source dates run from 2022-03-17 to 2026-08-10.
Cases
10 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyshion Nautese Hicks | UI | conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal possession of a machine gun | $30,000,000 stolen benefits | plea | 144 months | 2024-10-25 | |
| Anthony J. Boncimino | Business Owner Sentenced to Prison, Ordered to Pay Restitution, for CARES Act PPP Fraud — USAO Georgia, Middle | PPP | money laundering | $2,671,871.74 PPP loans obtained | guilty plea | 36 months | 2022-03-17 |
| James Frank Austin, Jr. | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States of America v. James Frank Austin, Jr. | PPP | $2,185,175.72 restitution ordered | 63 months | 2025-12-02 | ||
| Rosalend Way | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Rosalend Way, Middle District of Georgia (Document 103) | PPP | $1,106,499.62 restitution ordered | 63 months | |||
| Sharmaine Simpson | Sharmaine Simpson — Sentenced to Serve 30 Months in Prison — Fraud Scheme — More Than $1 Million From Pandemic Relief Funds | 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 | |
| Darrius Hollis | UI | identity theft, wire fraud, conspiracy | $42,667 unemployment insurance (UI) benefits | guilty plea | 42 months | 2022-03-24 | |
| Bobby Rae Booker | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Bobby Rae Booker, Middle District of Georgia (Document 32) | PPP | $14,926.40 restitution ordered | 3 years probation | 2026-08-10 | ||
| 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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