Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
14 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of Missouri, naming 13 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 2 EIDL, 3 unemployment insurance, 1 other or unclassified. 2 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 14 of them, from $40,000 to $3,540,302. Source dates run from 2023-02-28 to 2026-05-14.
Cases
13 defendants from 14 rows · 2 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briauna Adams | PPP | wire fraud, money laundering, theft of government funds, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft | $3,540,302 loss | plea | 132 months | 2025-09-30 | |
| Lawrence Courtney Lawhorn | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aggravated identity theft | $3,000,000 fraud loss | plea | 252 months | 2025-04-21 | |
| Patricia "Tricia" Ashton Derges | Unclassified pandemic relief | 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of distributing drugs over the internet without a valid prescription, and two counts of making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent | $1,100,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 75 months | 2023-02-28 | |
| Renetta Golden-Larimore | USA v. Golden-Larimore et al — W.D. Mo., Western Division, No. 4:23-cr-00098-BCW | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $908,278 actual loss | plea | 51 months | 2025-06-25 |
| Prayshana Washington | UI | false claims, false statements COVID-19 pandemic UI fraud scheme | $836,369 (DOJ release) $835,000 restitution | sentenced | 37 months | 2025-01-22 | |
| Mirza Michael Reazuddin | PPP | one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering | $804,100 proceeds he personally obtained from the scheme | guilty plea | 18 months | 2024-06-26 | |
| Scott Allen Maples | PPP | one count of bank fraud | $684,034 loans for several businesses under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act | guilty plea | 18 months | 2024-05-13 | |
| Brian Ruth, Sr. | PPP | wire fraud, money laundering, false statements, identity theft | $522,765 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 108 months | 2024-04-23 | |
| Jarrell Curne | PPP | Wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343) | $312,500 obtained | plea | 36 months | 2026-05-14 | |
| Daisha Sanders | United States v. Daisha Sanders et al. — U.S. District Court, W.D. Mo. | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $270,820.33 loss from false PPP loan applications | not specified | 18 months | 2025-12-17 |
| Jason Roath | EIDL | theft of government money | $148,000 actual loss | plea | 60 months | 2026-03-11 | |
| Brooke Stewart | UI | false claims, conspiracy | $139,663 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 30 months | 2023-10-19 | |
| Rasheeda McDaniel | PPP | wire fraud and aggravated identity theft | $40,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 87 months | 2026-02-25 |
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 14 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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