Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
14 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Southern District of Ohio, naming 14 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 4 EIDL, 2 other or unclassified. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 14 of them, from $20,725 to $3,500,000. Source dates run from 2021-03-16 to 2025-07-16.
Cases
14 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adesh Alvin Bissoon | EIDL | conspired to steal identities to fraudulently obtain credit and COVID-19 relief funds | $3,500,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 96 months | 2022-08-02 | |
| Lorie A. Schaefer | PPP | $2,800,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 70 months | 2025-06-17 | ||
| Nadine Consuelo Jackson | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, making a false statement to a bank | $2,500,000 attempted | plea | 24 months | 2021-03-16 | |
| Joseph Lentine III | PPP, EIDL, UI, Rental Assistance | conspiring to commit bank fraud and making a false statement on a loan or credit application | $1,500,000 obtained | plea | 63 months | 2025-01-21 | |
| Ava Misseldine | PPP | 15 counts of wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1343) and one count of making a false statement in application or use of a passport (18 U.S.C. 1542) | $1,500,000 restitution ordered | plea | 72 months | 2023-08-08 | |
| Kelli Prather | PPP/EIDL | bank fraud, making false statements in connection to credit or loan applications, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft | $1,200,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 84 months | 2024-04-09 | |
| Kasey Hamer | Unclassified pandemic relief | $1,000,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 55 months | 2023-06-08 | ||
| Herman Brunis | EIDL | conspiring to commit wire fraud | $300,000 received | sentenced | 13 months | 2025-07-16 | |
| Janet Jenison | PPP | wire fraud (3 counts); false statements on PPP application | $250,000 PPP wire fraud and false statements | plea | 5 years probation | 2021-12-01 | |
| Lashawnda Alexander | EIDL | three counts of wire fraud | $137,500 attempted | trial | 24 months | 2025-01-29 | |
| Willie Boyce | PPP | one count of wire fraud | $98,500 fraudulently claimed a gross income | guilty plea | 13 months | 2023-10-11 | |
| Marcus Hawkins | EIDL | COVID-19 relief fraud | $60,000 restitution ordered | sentenced | 13 months | 2023-05-10 | |
| Jon Devol | Social Security, COVID-19 relief | fraudulently obtaining Social Security and COVID-19 relief funding | $59,000 received | sentenced | 15 months | 2021-09-07 | |
| Kipterrez James | PPP | making false statements to the federal government | $20,725 received | guilty plea | 13 months | 2025-02-12 |
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 14 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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