Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
5 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Middle District of North Carolina, naming 3 defendants. By program: 3 PPP, 2 EIDL. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 5 of them, from $10,000 to $3,991,372.96. Source dates run from 2021-04-22 to 2024-10-30.
Cases
3 defendants from 5 rows · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Ababio | PPP | conspiracy to file fraudulent loan applications, false statements | $3,991,372.96 obtained | sentenced | 35 months | 2024-10-30 | |
| Joseph Marsell Cartlidge | PPP, EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud; fraudulently seeking PPP and EIDL funds conspiracy, wire fraud (fraudulently seeking Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs)) | $2,700,000 attempted | sentenced | 72 months | 2022-02-15 | |
| Brandon Lewis | EIDL | two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to the Small Business Administration (SBA) | $10,000 obtained; (DOJ release) | plea | 63 months | 2021-04-23 2021-04-22 |
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 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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