Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
15 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the District of Nevada, naming 13 defendants. By program: 10 PPP, 1 EIDL, 4 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 14 of them, from $30,000 to $78,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-12-09 to 2025-10-08.
Cases
13 defendants from 15 rows · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Casutt | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, money laundering | $78,000,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 28 months | 2023-10-13 2023-10-12 | |
| Meelad Dezfooli | 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; proceeds received | jury trial | 180 months | 2025-08-21 | |
| Jaquari Davonte Woodward | PPP | wire fraud | $1,100,000 fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications | guilty plea | 19 months | 2024-01-09 | |
| Jeremy Lee Attebery | 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 | 13 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 | |
| Joseph Holmes Jr. | 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 | UI | wire fraud, conspiracy | $240,000 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2025-04-29 | |
| Kash King Fuller | 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. | 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 (DOJ release) | plea | 48 months | 2022-08-04 | |
| United States v. Meelad Dezfooli (D. Nevada) | PPP | 181 months |
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 15 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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