Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
18 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of New York, naming 18 defendants. By program: 10 PPP, 2 EIDL, 3 unemployment insurance, 3 other or unclassified. 3 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 16 of them, from $150,000 to $46,806,794.65. Source dates run from 2022-03-18 to 2026-06-03.
Cases
18 defendants · 3 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffany Williams | Williams | ERC/tax credits | $46,806,794.65 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 36 months | ||
| Rami Saab | Amended Judgment, E.D.N.Y. No. 2:22-cr-00344 (Doc. 96) | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $32,000,000 amount sought | plea | 84 months | 2024-03-15 |
| Peter Khaim | Two Owners of New York Pharmacies Charged in $30 Million Covid-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme | Unclassified pandemic relief | conspiracy to commit money laundering | $18,000,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 97 months | 2024-06-24 |
| Konstantinos Zarkadas | Konstantinos Zarkadas, a Glen Cove-Based Medical Doctor — 51 Months' Imprisonment — Central Islip | PPP/EIDL | disaster relief fraud, wire fraud | $3,700,000 proceeds received | plea | 51 months | 2022-03-18 |
| Anuli Okeke | U.S. v. Anuli Okeke | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud; wire fraud; bank fraud; money laundering conspiracy | $3,418,473.84 restitution ordered | trial | 20 months | 2025-04-16 |
| Donald Finley | Donald Finley, a Locust Valley Businessman — Owner of the Now-Defunct Jekyll & Hyde Theme Restaurant in Manhattan — Central Islip | PPP/EIDL | disaster relief fraud, wire fraud | $3,200,000 loan amount | plea | 24 months | 2024-04-16 |
| John Bolden | Former New York City Police Department Detective Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Paycheck Protection Program Fraud Scheme | PPP | Wire fraud conspiracy | $3,000,000 amount sought | plea | 48 months | 2026-06-03 |
| Darnell Jones | DOJ Usao Edny Press Release Brooklyn Based Ninedee Gang Member Sentenced 145 Months Impri 2026 03 26 | UI | wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft | $2,700,000 intended loss | plea | 145 months | 2026-03-26 |
| Leon Miles | Leon Miles — 72 Months in Prison — Making False Statements in an Application for Over $1.9 Million From the Paycheck Protection Program | PPP | false statements in an application for over $1.9 million from the Paycheck Protection Program | $2,000,000 obtained | plea | 72 months | 2022-07-05 |
| Bryan Abraham | U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, "Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for $1.75 Million Covid-19 Unemployment Fraud" (May 21, 2025) | UI | aggravated identity theft and conspiring to commit access device fraud | $1,750,000 obtained | plea | 60 months | 2025-05-21 |
| Niall Alli | Long Island Resident Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Covid-19 Loan Fraud | PPP | disaster relief fraud, wire fraud | $1,700,000 proceeds received | plea | 48 months | 2025-08-13 |
| Carmine G. Agnello | Long Island Man Sentenced to Prison for $1 Million Covid-19 Fraud | EIDL | wire fraud | $1,100,000 defrauding the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) of approximately $1.1 million in loans awarded | guilty plea | 15 months | 2026-04-20 |
| Arthur Cornwall and Sean Williams | Former New York City Transit Worker and Former Court Officer Sentenced to 18 Months for COVID-19 Loan Fraud | PPP/EIDL | conspiring 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 plea | 18 months | 2024-03-20 |
| Armani Miller | Memorandum & Order — Sentencing of Armani Miller (57 Months) | UI | $255,212 restitution ordered | 57 months | |||
| Gianni Stewart | Judgment as to Gianni Stewart — United States v. Abraham et al. (Dkt. 260, E.D.N.Y.) | PPP/UI | $178,800 restitution ordered | 24 months | 2024-05-10 | ||
| Jeremy Trapp | Brooklyn Man Charged with Covid-19 Related Fraud | EIDL | wire 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 specified | 18 months | 2022-10-05 |
| Jia Liu | Former Marine Corps Reservist Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Stealing, Forging and Distributing Hundreds of Fraudulent COVID-19 Vaccination Cards During the Pandemic | Unclassified pandemic relief | conspiring to steal, forge and distribute fraudulent COVID-19 Vaccination Cards; conspiracies to defraud and obstruct the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic | guilty plea | 21 months | 2024-04-05 | |
| Hashim Campbell | United States v. Hashim Campbell — U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y. | PPP | 1 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; 3 of the 18 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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