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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
8 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of Ohio, naming 8 defendants. By program: 6 PPP, 2 EIDL. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 8 of them, from $62,296.70 to $35,000,000. Source dates run from 2022-02-24 to 2025-05-21.
Cases
8 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deon D. Levy | 2023 01 19 Owner Of Two Northeast Ohio Businesses Sentenced To Prison For PPP Loan C2435258 | PPP | conspiracy to unlawfully obtain Paycheck Protection Program (‐PPP‐) loans | $35,000,000 largest figure in the release | guilty plea | 15 months | 2023-01-19 |
| James Stote | 2022 05 06 Two Florida Men Sentenced To Ten And Six And A Half Years In Prison For 354ca3a9 | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $35,000,000 amount sought | plea | 120 months | 2022-05-06 |
| Phillip J. Augustin | Two Men Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme | PPP | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $15,000,000 sought (release: Augustin was responsible for at least 34 fraudulent loan applications worth at least $15 million; restitution more than $5.9 million) | sentenced | 78 months | 2022-05-09 |
| Aydin Kalantarov | Willoughby Hills Man Sentenced for His Part in $7 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme Fraud | EIDL | defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) | $7,000,000 obtained | plea | 33 months | 2023-05-25 |
| Terrence L. Pounds | Toledo Area Man Sentenced to 94 Months in Prison for Covid Fraud | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering | $4,239,940.43 restitution ordered to the SBA (release) | sentenced | 94 months | 2024-03-20 |
| Daniel R. Hitlan | PPP | bank fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, identity theft | $2,744,013.33 Total amount obtained through three fraudulent PPP loans | plea | 27 months | 2025-05-21 | |
| Demetrius Moore | Cleveland Man Sentenced to Prison for COVID-19 Loan Fraud | PPP | Theft of government funds, Wire fraud, Felon in possession of firearm | $183,215.47 PPP and EIDL loan proceeds fraudulently obtained | guilty plea | 42 months | 2022-11-04 |
| Robert Bearden | Chesterland Man Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay Restitution for COVID-19 Relief Fraud | EIDL | COVID-19 relief fraud | $62,296.70 funds disbursed | guilty plea | 12 months | 2022-02-24 |
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 8 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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