Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
8 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Middle District of Louisiana, naming 8 defendants. By program: 3 PPP, 4 EIDL, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $25,000 to $4,400,000. Source dates run from 2021-12-21 to 2025-11-13.
Cases
8 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damian R. Raby | ERC | conspiracy to launder money and obstructing the administration of the internal revenue laws | $4,400,000 amount_received | plea | 216 months | 2025-11-13 | |
| Richard Hebert, Jr. | PPP | making a false statement to a bank | $4,200,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 84 months | 2024-12-06 | |
| Elliott Sterling | EIDL, student-aid | five counts of wire fraud (student aid), two counts of financial aid fraud, two counts of wire fraud (EIDL), six counts of money laundering | $2,760,422 restitution ordered | jury trial | 132 months | 2023-01-11 | |
| Tiera R. Lands | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, money laundering | $1,500,000 actual loss | plea | 48 months | 2023-12-01 | |
| Linda Gurvin | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions | $1,000,000 attempted | plea | 36 months | 2024-05-03 | |
| April R. Falgoust | EIDL | wire fraud | $473,000 intended loss from fraudulent EIDL applications | guilty plea | 18 months | 2021-12-21 | |
| Gernesia Williams | EIDL | knowing conversion of government funds | $110,030.47 misspent loan proceeds | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-01-28 | |
| Chanda Hall | EIDL | wire fraud, making false statements | $25,000 restitution ordered | trial | 26 months | 2022-10-03 |
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; 0 of the 8 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.