Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Central District of Illinois, naming 11 defendants. By program: 7 PPP, 3 EIDL, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 11 of them, from $20,000 to $1,200,000. Source dates run from 2022-07-13 to 2026-05-20.
Cases
11 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Jones | EIDL | wire fraud | $1,200,000 (DOJ release) | plea | 5 months | 2022-07-28 | |
| Carlos Wright | PPP | Possessing a Firearm as a Felon and COVID-19 Fraud | $1,000,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 42 months | 2022-09-22 | |
| Aaron Rossi | Healthcare/COVID-testing | wire fraud, mail fraud, false claims | $525,520.61 total combined loss from false billing for COVID tests | guilty plea | 37 months | 2025-07-17 | |
| Demetrius S. Washington | EIDL | possession of a weapon by a felon and wire fraud | $250,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 108 months | 2023-12-08 | |
| Andre K. Johnson | PPP/UI | false statements, false statement | $250,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 2023-10-31 | ||
| Thalamus Alexander, Jr. | EIDL | wire fraud; theft of government property | $250,000 amount sought | plea | 2022-07-13 | ||
| Octavia Renee Murphy | PPP/EIDL | Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering | $169,949.97 defrauded the SBA of | guilty plea | 12 months | 2026-05-20 | |
| Demetrius Robertson | PPP | Wire fraud; possession with intent to distribute cocaine | $45,327 obtained | plea | 66 months | 2022-09-29 | |
| Alex Jennings | PPP | wire fraud | $40,000 defrauded the federal government and lender | guilty plea | 13 months | 2023-07-21 | |
| Kendall A. Mack | PPP | making false statement (PPP loan application) | $39,239.08 obtained | plea | 3 years probation | 2023-09-06 | |
| Samuel M. Powell II | PPP | theft of government money | $20,000 fraudulently obtained PPP loan | guilty plea | 12 months | 2022-07-29 |
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 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.
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