Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
8 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Maine, naming 8 defendants. By program: 8 PPP. 1 has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $20,833 to $1,010,581. Source dates run from 2022-11-02 to 2026-09-01.
Cases
8 defendants · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark X. Haley II | South Thomaston Man Sentenced to 1.5 Years for Fraudulently Obtaining More than $1 Million in PPP Loans | PPP | bank fraud | $1,010,581 fraud proceeds received and ordered in restitution | guilty plea | 18 months | 2023-10-04 |
| Currin Caridine | PPP/EIDL mixed | wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $475,000 EIDL and PPP loans | guilty plea | 41 months | 2026-06-12 | |
| Craig C. Franck | Craig C. Franck: Levant Man Was Sentenced Today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, money laundering | $322,460 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2023-01-25 |
| Merton Weed Jr. | Norway Man Sentenced to 2 Years for PPP Loan Fraud | PPP | filing fraudulent applications for loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) | $253,646 total PPP funds received across eight fraudulent applications | guilty plea | 24 months | 2024-05-31 |
| Frederick Avery | North Berwick Man Sentenced for Bank Fraud after Applying for PPP Loans for Travel Agency He No Longer Owned | PPP | bank fraud | $215,000 loans received | plea | 5 months | 2024-12-10 |
| Keith Mitchell | New Gloucester Man Sentenced for Presenting Counterfeit Treasury Checks and Wire Fraud | Treasury checks, PPP | passing counterfeit U.S. Treasury checks; wire fraud | $104,464 restitution ordered (release: 13 counterfeit Treasury checks "totaling $83,632" and "$20,832 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds based on a fraudulent PPP loan application") | guilty plea | 30 months | 2026-09-01 |
| Nathan Reardon | D. Me. No. 1:21-cr-00061 | PPP | bank fraud | $59,145 PPP loan proceeds obtained | guilty plea | 20 months | 2022-11-02 |
| Shahied Golden | United States v. Shahied R. Golden — U.S. District Court, District of Maine | PPP | filing a fraudulent application for a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) | $20,833 received | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-03-12 |
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; 1 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.
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