Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
7 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of New York, naming 7 defendants. By program: 5 PPP, 2 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 7 of them, from $163,993 to $5,600,000. Source dates run from 2022-01-26 to 2024-09-20.
Cases
7 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean M. Andre | Former MTA Special Inspector Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Fraud | PPP | conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $5,600,000 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2022-02-24 |
| Jean R. Lavanture | Ulster County Man Sentenced to 60 Months for Conspiring to Commit COVID-19 Relief Fraud — USAO NDNY | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit bank fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $4,870,781 obtained | plea | 60 months | 2022-01-26 |
| Debra Hackstadt | Albany Woman Sentenced to Prison for COVID-19 Relief Fraud | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $1,696,324.96 fraudulently obtained 32 government-backed COVID loans (PPP+EIDL) | guilty plea | 16 months | 2022-11-08 |
| Carl DiVeglia | UI | UI fraud; abusing insider access | $1,600,000 restitution ordered | sentenced | 20 months | 2024-08-22 | |
| Deborah Budhraj and Adesh Budhraj | Deborah Budhraj, Age 52, and Her Husband Adesh Budhraj, Age 54, of Ballston Lake, New York, Were Sentenced Today to Time Served | PPP, EIDL | bank fraud conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy | $558,514 The combined total of two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and one Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) fraudulently obtained by the defendants. | plea | 2024-05-15 | |
| William Taylor | Queens Couple Sentenced for $380,000 COVID Unemployment Fraud Conspiracy | UI | aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, conspiracy, false claims | $381,815 obtained | sentenced | 36 months | 2024-09-20 |
| Scott Solomon | Albany Man Sentenced to Prison for Pandemic Relief Fraud | PPP | two counts of bank fraud | $163,993 obtained | guilty plea | 13 months | 2024-07-25 |
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 7 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.