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 $10,843.84 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 | Springfield, Illinois Man Sentenced to 5 months’ Imprisonment and 3 months Home Confinement for COVID-19 Related Wire Fraud | EIDL | wire fraud | $1,200,000 largest figure in the release | plea | 5 months | 2022-07-28 |
| Aaron Rossi | Rossi Sentenced to an Additional Three Years in Prison for Healthcare Fraud Related to COVID Testing | 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 |
| 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 | |
| Thalamus Alexander, Jr. | A Springfield, Illinois Man, Thalamus Alexander, Jr., 27, Was Sentenced on July 12, 2022, to Six Months' Home Confinement | EIDL | wire fraud; theft of government property | $50,000 obtained (release: granted a $49,000 loan and a $1,000 advance; restitution $50,000) | plea | 2022-07-13 | |
| Demetrius Robertson | A Springfield, Illinois, Man, Demetrius Robertson, 30 — Was Sentenced on September 27, 2022 to an Aggregate 60 Months' Imprisonment | PPP | Wire fraud; possession with intent to distribute cocaine | $45,327 obtained | plea | 66 months | 2022-09-29 |
| Carlos Wright | Springfield, Illinois, Man Sentenced to 42 Months for Possessing a Firearm as a Felon and COVID-19 Fraud | PPP | Possessing a Firearm as a Felon and COVID-19 Fraud | $41,666 obtained (release: received a total of $41,666.00 in loan funds; restitution $46,666) | sentenced | 42 months | 2022-09-22 |
| Alex Jennings | A Springfield, Illinois, Man, Alex Jennings, 40 Formerly of Lincoln, Illinois, Was Sentenced on July 20, 2023, to 12 Months and One Day | PPP | wire fraud | $40,000 defrauded the federal government and lender | guilty plea | 13 months | 2023-07-21 |
| Kendall A. Mack | Three Peoria Men Sentenced for Paycheck Protection Program Fraud | PPP | making false statement (PPP loan application) | $39,239.08 obtained | plea | 3 years probation | 2023-09-06 |
| Andre K. Johnson | A Peoria, Illinois, man, Andre K. Johnson, 25, was sentenced on October 30, 2023, to three years of probation | PPP/UI | false statements, false statement | $30,586.05 loss (release: $23,410.05 to the SBA and $7,176.00 to Harvest Small Business Finance; restitution the same) | sentenced | 2023-10-31 | |
| Samuel M. Powell II | Peoria Man Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for PPP Fraud | PPP | theft of government money | $20,000 fraudulently obtained PPP loan | guilty plea | 12 months | 2022-07-29 |
| Demetrius S. Washington | EIDL | possession of a weapon by a felon and wire fraud | $10,843.84 restitution ordered to the SBA (release; he "fraudulently obtained over $10,000" of EIDL) | sentenced | 108 months | 2023-12-08 |
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; 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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