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16 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of New York, naming 14 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 2 EIDL, 2 unemployment insurance, 4 other or unclassified. 1 has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 13 of them, from $150,000 to $46,806,794.65. Source dates run from 2022-03-18 to 2026-06-03.

Cases

14 defendants from 16 rows · 1 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first

DefendantCase pageProgramChargeAmountDispositionSentenceDate
Tiffany WilliamsWilliamsERC/tax credits$46,806,794.65
restitution ordered
guilty plea36 months
Rami SaabPPP/EIDLconspiracy to commit wire fraud$32,000,000
amount sought
plea120 months2024-03-15
Peter KhaimUnclassified pandemic reliefconspiracy to commit money laundering
money laundering, conspiracy
$18,000,000
(DOJ release)
program-wide figure, not the defendant’s amount
sentenced97 months2024-06-24
Konstantinos ZarkadasPPP/EIDLdisaster relief fraud, wire fraud$3,700,000
proceeds received
plea51 months2022-03-18
Donald FinleyPPP/EIDLdisaster relief fraud, wire fraud$3,200,000
loan amount
plea24 months2024-04-16
John BoldenPPPWire fraud conspiracy$3,000,000
amount sought
plea
guilty plea
48 months2026-06-03
2026-06
Darnell JonesUIwire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft$2,700,000
intended loss
plea145 months2026-03-26
Leon MilesPPPfalse statements in an application for over $1.9 million from the Paycheck Protection Program$2,000,000
obtained
plea72 months2022-07-05
Bryan AbrahamUIaggravated identity theft and conspiring to commit access device fraud$1,750,000
obtained
plea60 months2025-05-21
Niall AlliPPPdisaster relief fraud, wire fraud$1,700,000
proceeds received
plea48 months2025-08-13
Carmine G. AgnelloEIDLwire fraud$1,100,000
defrauding the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) of approximately $1.1 million in loans awarded
guilty plea15 months2026-04-20
Arthur Cornwall and Sean WilliamsPPP/EIDLconspiring to commit wire fraud$770,000
receipt of approximately $770,000 in small business loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDLP)
guilty plea18 months2024-03-20
Jeremy TrappEIDLwire fraud and cutting a brake line of a New York City Police Department (NYPD) van$150,000
restitution to the SBA for fraudulent EIDL loan
not specified18 months2022-10-05
Jia LiuUnclassified pandemic reliefconspiring to steal, forge and distribute fraudulent COVID-19 Vaccination Cards; conspiracies to defraud and obstruct the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemicguilty plea21 months2024-04-05

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; 1 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 — 1 row here: 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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