Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
12 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Nevada, naming 12 defendants. By program: 7 PPP, 1 EIDL, 4 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 12 of them, from $30,000 to $11,793,064.15. Source dates run from 2021-12-09 to 2025-10-08.
Cases
12 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meelad Dezfooli | Nevada Man Sentenced for Over $11M COVID-19 Relief Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme | PPP | three counts of bank fraud, three counts of money laundering, and four counts of conducting transactions using criminally derived property | $11,793,064.15 amount_received | jury trial | 180 months | 2025-08-21 |
| Jaquari Davonte Woodward | A North Las Vegas Man Was Sentenced Today — At Least 56 Fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Applications | PPP | wire fraud | $1,100,000 fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications | guilty plea | 19 months | 2024-01-09 |
| Jeremy Lee Attebery | Las Vegas Resident Sentenced To Prison For COVID Relief Fraud | PPP, EIDL | three counts of wire fraud | $1,043,000 total amount sought in fraudulent loan applications | plea | 30 months | 2023-03-01 |
| Corey Marcus Valrey | UI/PUA | UI fraud | $1,000,000 restitution ordered | sentenced | 12.03 months | 2025-10-08 | |
| Karen Chapon | PPP | false statements, bank fraud | $1,000,000 attempted | plea | 30 months | 2024-03-22 | |
| Luigi J. Montes | UI | conspiracy to commit mail fraud; aggravated identity theft | $700,000 actual | sentenced | 22 months | 2024-02-20 | |
| Brandon Casutt | Man Sentenced For Over $500,000 COVID-19 Relief Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, money laundering | $500,000 obtained (release: fraudulently obtaining over $500,000 in PPP and EIDL loans; applications sought more than $5.7 million) | sentenced | 28 months | 2023-10-13 |
| Joseph Holmes Jr. | Florida Man Sentenced To Prison For COVID-19 Related Unemployment Insurance Fraud Conspiracy And Identity Theft | UI | conspiracy to possess counterfeit and unauthorized access devices, aggravated identity theft | $385,000 amount sought | plea | 54 months | 2021-12-09 |
| Lavell Deshon Roberts | Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Prison For COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance Benefits Fraud | UI | wire fraud, conspiracy | $240,000 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2025-04-29 |
| Kash King Fuller | Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Prison For COVID-19 Relief Fraud, Bank Fraud, And Money Laundering | EIDL | wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering | $102,400 Fraudulently obtained EIDL loan amount | plea | 27 months | 2022-05-09 |
| Keyawn Lloyd Cook Jr. | Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Prison For Committing COVID Relief Fraud While On Pretrial Release — USAO Nevada Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Keyawn Lloyd Cook, Jr. (Dkt. 19, June 9, 2022) | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $100,000 sought to fraudulently obtain over $100,000 in COVID relief funds | guilty plea | 21 months | 2022-06-08 |
| Darnele Javoris Nelson | PPP/EIDL | felon in possession of a firearm, wire fraud | $30,000 largest figure in the release | plea | 48 months | 2022-08-04 |
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.
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