Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
20 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of Louisiana, naming 18 defendants. By program: 17 PPP, 1 unemployment insurance, 2 other or unclassified. 2 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 19 of them, from $11,378.27 to $1,100,000. Source dates run from 2023-07-24 to 2026-03-11.
Cases
18 defendants from 20 rows · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharnae Every | PPP | Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud | $1,100,000 total amount of 110 fraudulent PPP loans | guilty plea | 41 months | 2025-11-20 | |
| Clifton C. James | PPP/EIDL | false statements, money laundering | $551,973 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 5 years probation | 2025-05-30 | |
| Lynn Schofield | PPP, EIDL, CARES Act, Hurricane Ida disaster assistance PPP, EIDL, CARES Act | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $282,650 approximate loss to the SBA; fraudulently obtain; approximate loss to the SBA caused by the conspiracy | plea guilty plea | 12 months 6 months | 2024-08-28 2024-03-21 2024-03-07 | |
| JAZMIN J. BOUGERE | UI/PUA | theft of government funds | $275,000 total losses connected to fraudulent UI claims and other fraud | plea | 6 months | 2025-07-24 | |
| Linda Triggs | PPP/CARES Act | false statement, false statements | $250,000 CARES Act fraud | plea | 3 years probation | 2025-11-18 | |
| Siedah Eley | United States v. Siedah Eley — U.S. District Court, E.D. La. | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $166,656 PPP loan fraud proceeds | plea | 5 years probation | 2023-10-26 |
| Nathaniel Hopkins, Jr. | Social Security, CARES Act | false statements, money laundering | $147,376.43 Social Security Administration Title II benefits and CARES Act stimulus funds illegally received after failing to notify SSA of his wife’s death | plea | 3 years probation | 2025-07-10 | |
| Nipun Desai | PPP | making false statements (CARES Act) | $146,947.50 fraudulently obtained PPP loan | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-06-02 | |
| Irvin C. Francois, III | PPP | making false statements, money laundering | $144,790 PPP loan proceeds received | plea | 3 years probation | 2026-03-05 | |
| Dondre Morgan | United States v. Dondre Morgan — U.S. District Court, E.D. La. | PPP | $55,945 attributed amount / restitution | guilty plea | 10 months | ||
| Tracie L. Mixon | PPP | False statements related to the CARES Act | $31,000 (DOJ release) | plea | 24 months | 2025-05-30 | |
| BRANDI WEBER | PPP/CARES Act | false statements | $29,177.50 CARES Act fraud | plea | 2023-07-24 | ||
| BRIA PETERS | PPP | making false statements related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) | $29,166 loan proceeds received | plea | 5 years probation | 2024-01-18 | |
| Dequarius Hamler | PPP | conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana; distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine; making false statements to the Small Business Administration; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments | $19,000 proceeds received | plea | 135 months | 2026-03-11 | |
| TEMIKA SANTEMORE | PPP/EIDL | making false statements, theft of government funds | $18,540 fraudulently obtain approximately $13,540 in pandemic-related relief loans and $5,000 for a dormant business | plea | 4 years probation | 2023-12-18 | |
| ERNEST X. TAYLOR, JR. | PPP | two counts of making false statements related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) | $18,500 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 84 months | 2025-11-21 | |
| Cody Francis | Army funeral honors (NOT pandemic relief) | conspiracy to commit theft of government funds | $11,378.27 Army funeral honors fraud (not pandemic CARES Act) | plea | 2024-03-12 | ||
| Tamika Chappell | PPP | false statements | program-wide figure, not the defendant’s amount | sentenced | 2024-09-03 |
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; 2 of the 20 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 — 1 row here: 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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