Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of New York, naming 11 defendants. By program: 4 PPP, 4 EIDL, 2 unemployment insurance, 1 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 9 of them, from $11,586 to $115,500,000. Source dates run from 2022-08-18 to 2026-09-24.
Cases
11 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher A. Parris | Former Rochester Man Going To Prison For More Than 20 Years For His Role In Ponzi And COVID-19 Fraud Schemes | healthcare | conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud | $115,500,000 proceeds received | plea | 244 months | 2022-12-20 |
| Hormoz Mansouri | Amherst businessman sentenced for COVID fraud | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud; bank fraud | $3,197,562 PPP/EIDL fraud proceeds | trial | 2025-07-18 | |
| James Okolo | New Jersey man sentenced for COVID-19 fraud | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $700,000 defraud the Small Business Administration out of over $700,000 | sentenced | 12 months | 2024-02-27 |
| Larry Jordan | Lancaster man sentenced for COVID relief fraud | PPP | conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud, false statements | $605,200 PPP loan amount funded for one application (5 Stems Inc) | not specified | 18 months | 2024-10-18 |
| Kenyatta Phipps | Rochester man going to prison for COVID fraud | EIDL | wire fraud | $573,200 Total amount of fraudulent funds sought, including EIDL loans and attempted tax refunds | plea | 24 months | 2023-10-12 |
| Joseph Bella | Buffalo Man Facing 25 Charges, Including Drug, Gun And COVID Fraud Charges, In Two Separate Indictments | EIDL | wire fraud | $149,900 largest figure in the release | convicted | 42 months | 2023-03-09 |
| Michael Kornaker | North Tonawanda Man Going Back To Prison For COVID-19 Relief Fraud And Violating Supervised Release | EIDL | wire fraud and violation of supervised release | $60,500 amount applied for | 28 months | 2022-12-22 | |
| Shaneesha White | Batavia Woman And Buffalo Woman Both Going To Prison In Separate COVID Fraud Cases | UI | wire fraud | $48,833.15 largest figure in the release | 41 months | 2022-08-18 | |
| Angela Kellogg | U.S. Attorney’s Office, W.D.N.Y.: Dunkirk woman sentenced for theft of government funds involving COVID-19 fraud (Sept. 24, 2026) | UI/PUA | theft of government money | $11,586 received (release: "Kellogg received a check totaling $11,586 from the Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources"; she kept $5,000) | not specified | 3 years probation | 2026-09-24 |
| John L. Hutchins | John L. Hutchins, 72, of Lewiston, NY, and Roberto Soliman, 45, of Niagara Falls, NY, Were Sentenced (Rapids Theatre, Buffalo) | PPP, EIDL, SVOG | conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud | sentenced | 14 months | 2026-01-21 | |
| Christian Johnson | Buffalo Man Going To Prison For COVID Relief Fraud | PPP | wire fraud | plea | 30 months | 2023-05-04 |
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 11 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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