Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
12 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of North Carolina, naming 11 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 2 EIDL, 2 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 12 of them, from $87,583 to $8,700,000. Source dates run from 2022-01-06 to 2026-02-17.
Cases
11 defendants from 12 rows · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Andiloro | PPP | investment fraud scheme and fraudulently obtaining COVID relief funds | $8,700,000 $6.1 million investment fraud scheme and over $2.6 million in COVID relief funds | guilty plea | 45 months | 2025-05-22 | |
| Kimberly Maddox | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, making a false statement to a financial institution | $3,400,000 amount sought | plea | 12 months | 2025-04-17 | |
| Izzat Freitekh | PPP | money laundering, other offenses money laundering and other offenses | $1,700,000 proceeds received | trial | 48 months | 2022-12-07 | |
| Maurice Kamgaing | PPP | wire fraud in relation to a disaster benefit and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property | $1,506,463 PPP loans obtained | guilty plea | 33 months | 2022-01-06 | |
| Brian Shane Haigler | EIDL | false statements, wire fraud | $1,500,000 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2026-02-17 | |
| Ashley Nicole Cross | PPP | healthcare fraud, making false statements and writings relating to a healthcare matter, promotional money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy | $1,487,000 loss alleged | jury trial | 135 months | 2024-11-22 | |
| Donte O’Neill Clements | UI | wire fraud; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon | $993,081 proceeds received | plea | 120 months | 2024-01-03 | |
| Evan Agustin Perez | PPP | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | $720,079.82 proceeds received | plea | 24 months | 2024-02-21 | |
| Nkhenge Shropshire | EIDL | wire fraud, conspiracy | $331,072 attempted to obtain in relief funds | guilty plea | 42 months | 2022-12-07 | |
| Joseph Ransome | UI | wire fraud | $163,000 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2022-01-28 | |
| Spenc’r Denard Rickerson | PPP, EIDL | bank robbery, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft | $87,583 restitution ordered | trial | 72 months | 2023-08-01 |
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 12 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.