Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of Mississippi, naming 10 defendants. By program: 6 PPP, 4 EIDL, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 10 of them, from $200,000 to $47,000,000. Source dates run from 2022-08-15 to 2025-12-16.
Cases
11 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakisha Pearson | Marshall County Woman Sentenced to 52 Months in Prison for COVID IRS Fraud (U.S. Attorney's Office, N.D. Miss.) | ERC | mail fraud | $47,000,000 amount sought | plea | 52 months | 2025-01-30 |
| Norman Beckwood | Tennessee Man Sentenced in Covid Relief Fraud | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $11,000,000 restitution ordered | plea | 62 months | 2023-12-05 |
| Lakeith M. Faulkner | Small Business Administration Employee Sentenced in Covid Relief Fraud | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $11,000,000 loss alleged | plea | 62 months | 2023-05-25 |
| Christopher Paul Lick | Starkville Man Sentenced To 78 Months For PPP Fraud | PPP/EIDL | Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud | $6,000,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 78 months | 2022-08-15 |
| Montreal Hudson | Olive Branch Man Sentenced to Five Years and Ordered to Pay Millions after PPP Fraud Scheme | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering | $3,526,517 restitution ordered | sentenced | 60 months | 2025-06-26 |
| Zipora Hudson | Olive Branch Woman Sentenced to Five Years and Ordered to Pay Millions after PPP Fraud Scheme | PPP | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | $3,526,517 restitution ordered | plea | 60 months | 2025-04-24 |
| Lakisha Pearson | Marshall County Couple Both Sentenced to Prison for COVID PPP Fraud | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $3,364,052 restitution ordered jointly to the Pearsons (release: "ordered the Pearsons to repay $3,364,052 in restitution"); no per-person amount stated | sentenced | 75 months | 2025-04-09 |
| Herman Nash | Caledonia man sentenced for COVID loan fraud | EIDL | COVID loan fraud | $800,000 fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loans related to the COVID-19 pandemic | not specified | 18 months | 2024-07-29 |
| Docterance Atkins | Sledge, Mississippi Man Sentenced to 37 Months Imprisonment for COVID-19 Fraud Scheme | PPP | wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering | $750,000 stolen from the federal government through fraudulent PPP loans (release: “nearly $750,000”) | guilty plea | 37 months | 2025-12-16 |
| Ramirez Ivy | COLUMBUS MAN SENTENCED FOR COVID FRAUD | EIDL | conspiracy, fraudulent loan application | $200,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan fraudulently obtained | trial conviction | 18 months | 2025-02-27 |
| Robert Pearson | Marshall County Couple Both Sentenced to Prison for COVID PPP Fraud | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | sentenced | 110 months | 2025-04-09 |
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 11 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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