Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
5 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of Missouri, naming 5 defendants. By program: 4 PPP, 1 other or unclassified. 1 has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 5 of them, from $15,000 to $2,700,000. Source dates run from 2022-04-12 to 2025-11-03.
Cases
5 defendants · 1 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Williams | Robert Williams, Age 58, of St. Louis, Missouri — Sentenced to 125 Months in Federal Prison | PPP | bank fraud, false statements | $2,700,000 loss | plea | 125 months | 2022-04-12 |
| Prince Vamboi | St. Louis Man Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for N-95 Mask Scam, PPP Fraud | PPP/UI | frauds including a N-95 mask scam and a $18,750 fraudulent loan through the Paycheck Protection Program | $212,848 total worth of frauds including a N-95 mask scam, a PPP loan, an altered check, and unemployment insurance benefits | guilty plea | 24 months | 2022-05-24 |
| Michael Holmes | Criminal judgment — US v. Holmes | PPP | $56,689.94 restitution ordered | 15 months | 2024-06-12 | ||
| Anthony Virdure II | United States v. Anthony Virdure II — U.S. District Court, E.D. Mo. | PPP | $20,832 restitution ordered | 18 months | 2025-11-03 | ||
| Anthony "Tony" Weaver Sr. | Former St. Louis County Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Pandemic Relief Fraud Scheme | SBR | scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 relief funds (Small Business Relief Program grants) | $15,000 maximum amount sought in false grant applications to the county’s Small Business Relief (SBR) Program | not specified | 18 months | 2023-01-26 |
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 5 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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