Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
2 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of New Mexico, naming 2 defendants. By program: 2 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 2 of them, from $154,744 to $312,468.66. Source dates run from 2025-11-13 to 2026-03-25.
Cases
2 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Willis (aka Melanie Vallejos) | UI | tax fraud, identity theft, wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft | $312,468.66 obtained | sentenced | 60 months | 2025-11-13 | |
| Marc Long | UI | wire fraud, mail fraud, theft of government property | $154,744 loss amount | plea | 24 months | 2026-03-25 |
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; 0 of the 2 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.