Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
21 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Southern District of Georgia, naming 19 defendants. By program: 13 PPP, 6 EIDL, 2 other or unclassified. 6 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 21 of them, from $41,665 to $4,200,000. Source dates run from 2021-06-15 to 2025-12-16.
Cases
19 defendants from 21 rows · 4 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Okojie | United States v. Bernard Okojie — S.D. Ga., No. 4:22-cr-00084-LGW-BWC | PPP, EIDL | Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Money Laundering Conspiracy | $4,200,000 attempted $1,946,283 restitution | trial | 64 months | 2023-10-02 |
| Dantavious Jackson | ERC/tax credits | mail fraud scheme to defraud the United States by making claims for refunds of false COVID-19 related employment tax credits | $4,000,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 84 months | 2025-12-16 | |
| Dara Buck | USA v. Buck | PPP | Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States | $3,680,247 fraudulent PPP loan disbursements and student loan discharges | guilty plea | 42 months | 2023-01-09 |
| Brittany Murphey | PPP | Conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States | $3,600,000 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 42 months | 2022-2023 | |
| Shakeena Hamilton | PPP | Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the U.S. Government | $2,511,489.07 restitution ordered | plea | 60 months | 2022-08-30 | |
| Salmat Deyji | PPP | Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Money Laundering | $1,073,307 restitution amount / fraudulently obtained funds | guilty plea | 26 months | 2023-05-02 | |
| Dennis Rodriguez Kinchen | Unclassified pandemic relief | Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute, and to Distribute, 500 Grams or More of Cocaine, and an Amount of Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Marijuana; and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering | $570,236.54 forfeiture | plea | 150 months | 2023-09-27 | |
| Gladys Harun | USA v. Harun (GASD 89545) | PPP, EIDL | lying to a federal investigator | $552,679 obtained $550,000 restitution ordered | plea guilty plea | 60 months | 2024-01-29 |
| Shaquandra Woods | EIDL | Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud | $300,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 75 months | 2024-04-17 | |
| Jerrod Bellamy | PPP | Conspiracy and Filing a False Tax Return | $223,807.14 personal PPP loan fraudulently obtained and conspiracy to obtain PPP loans for others | guilty plea | 22 months | 2022-12-12 | |
| Whitney Adwan Mack | EIDL | wire fraud, false statements | $150,000 proceeds received | plea | 48 months | 2022-01-14 | |
| Mack Devon Knight | EIDL | Two counts of Wire Fraud | $149,000 amount received from SBA EIDL program | plea | 29 months | 2022-09-20 | |
| La’Kyera Me’Lika Thurmond | PPP/UI | Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud | $140,228 payments the Thurmonds and others fraudulently received for unemployment benefits from Georgia and Arizona, and for COVID-19 relief payments from the SBA and a financial services company | guilty plea | 21 months | 2024-06-10 | |
| Jacinthia Williams | EIDL | wire fraud, false statements | $137,500 applied for and received | guilty plea | 13 months | 2021-06-15 | |
| Vinath Oudomsine | United States v. Vinath Oudomsine — U.S. District Court, S.D. Ga. | EIDL | $85,000 EIDL proceeds received | guilty plea | 36 months | ||
| Kameka Bausley | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $71,933 obtained | plea | 32 months | 2024-12-10 | |
| Tracy Kirkland | EIDL | wire fraud | $66,400 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2021-07-15 | |
| Brandon Lamar Williams | PPP | wire fraud | $46,522 obtained | plea | 60 months | 2022-12-08 | |
| Kemar Clarke Jr. | PPP | $41,665 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 8 months | 2024-03-18 |
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; 6 of the 21 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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