Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
16 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of North Carolina, naming 16 defendants. By program: 11 PPP, 2 EIDL, 2 unemployment insurance, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 13 of them, from $87,583 to $8,700,000. Source dates run from 2022-01-06 to 2026-09-22.
Cases
16 defendants · 1 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Andiloro | Mooresville Man Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding Investors | 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 | Couple Sentenced To Prison For $2 Million Bank Loan And Pandemic Relief Fraud Schemes | 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 | Father And Son Sentenced For $1.7 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud | PPP | money laundering, other offenses | $1,700,000 proceeds received | trial | 48 months | 2022-12-07 |
| Maurice Kamgaing | 2022 01 06 Archdale N C Man Is Sentenced To Almost Three Years In Prison For Covid E3a12ea3 | 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 |
| 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 | Charlotte Business Owner Is Sentenced To Prison For $720,000 COVID-19 Relief Fraud | 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 | |
| Brian Shane Haigler | Mint Hill Sentenced For Investment Fraud | EIDL | wire fraud | $311,000 EIDL loan approved and deposited in a church’s name; the release puts the loss of his wider embezzlement scheme at $550,000 to $1.5 million | plea | 33 months | 2026-02-17 |
| Keon Taylor | Charlotte Man Convicted Of Using Stolen Identities To Defraud Government-Funded COVID-19 Relief Programs Is Sentenced To Five Years In Prison | EIDL/UI | wire fraud; aggravated identity theft (18 U.S.C. 1343, 1028A(a)(1)) | $219,000 obtained | plea | 60 months | 2022-03-10 |
| Joseph Ransome | Indian Trail Man Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Scheme To Defraud COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance Benefit Program | UI | wire fraud | $163,000 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2022-01-28 |
| Tiawana Brown | U.S. Attorney’s Office, W.D.N.C.: Federal Judge Sentences Former City Councilwoman and Daughters for COVID-19 Loan Fraud (Sept. 22, 2026) | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud conspiracy | $146,665 received, jointly with Tijema Brown and Antionette Rouse (release: "the defendants submitted at least 13 applications for EIDL or PPP funds and fraudulently received at least $146,665 in pandemic relief loans"); no per-person amount stated | guilty plea | 10 months | 2026-09-22 |
| Kelly Bree Mosley | Judgment — United States v. Kelly Bree Mosley, Western District of North Carolina (Document 22) | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1343) | $125,217 restitution ordered | plea | 2 years probation | 2024-08-26 |
| Spenc’r Denard Rickerson | Catawba Co. Man Is Sentenced For Bank Robbery, COVID-19 Fraud, And Aggravated Identity Theft (2023-08-01) Judgment in a Criminal Case — No. 5:22-cr-00013 (Dkt. 66) | PPP, EIDL | bank robbery, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft | $87,583 restitution ordered | trial | 72 months | 2023-08-01 |
| Antionette Rouse | U.S. Attorney’s Office, W.D.N.C.: Federal Judge Sentences Former City Councilwoman and Daughters for COVID-19 Loan Fraud (Sept. 22, 2026) | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud conspiracy | guilty plea | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Tijema Brown | U.S. Attorney’s Office, W.D.N.C.: Federal Judge Sentences Former City Councilwoman and Daughters for COVID-19 Loan Fraud (Sept. 22, 2026) | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud conspiracy | guilty plea | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Ashley Nicole Cross | W.D.N.C. No. 3:23-cr-00198 | PPP | healthcare fraud, making false statements and writings relating to a healthcare matter, promotional money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy | jury trial | 135 months | 2024-11-22 |
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 16 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.