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 | 3 Florida men charged with stealing credit, tax refunds, COVID-19 stimulus checks in bank fraud conspiracy involving more than $1 million in losses | EIDL | conspired to steal identities to fraudulently obtain credit and COVID-19 relief funds | $3,500,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 96 months | 2022-08-02 |
| Lorie A. Schaefer | Central Ohio woman sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for $2.8 million pandemic relief fraud scheme | PPP | $2,800,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 70 months | 2025-06-17 | |
| Nadine Consuelo Jackson | Dayton Business Owner Sentenced for COVID-Relief Fraud | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, making a false statement to a bank | $2,500,000 attempted | plea | 24 months | 2021-03-16 |
| Joseph Lentine III | Ringleader of COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme Sentenced to Federal Prison | 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 | A Former Columbus Woman Was Sentenced in Federal Court Today to 72 Months in Prison (Ava Misseldine, Wire and Passport Fraud) | 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 | Cincinnati Woman Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Crimes Related to COVID-19 Relief Fraud | PPP/EIDL | bank fraud, making false statements in connection to credit or loan applications, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft | $1,200,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 84 months | 2024-04-09 |
| Kasey Hamer | Clermont County woman sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for COVID-19 relief fraud | Unclassified pandemic relief | $1,000,000 largest figure in the release | sentenced | 55 months | 2023-06-08 | |
| Herman Brunis | Local man sentenced to year in federal prison for COVID-19 relief fraud | EIDL | conspiring to commit wire fraud | $300,000 received | sentenced | 13 months | 2025-07-16 |
| Janet Jenison | Owner of Local Marketing Business to Pay Quarter of a Million Dollars for Committing COVID Relief Fraud | PPP | wire fraud (3 counts); false statements on PPP application | $160,247 obtained (release: two applications approved, a financial institution disbursed $160,247; the applications sought $298,719.67) | plea | 5 years probation | 2021-12-01 |
| Lashawnda Alexander | Former Cincinnati resident sentenced to 2 years in prison for fraud related to pandemic relief funds | EIDL | three counts of wire fraud | $137,500 attempted | trial | 24 months | 2025-01-29 |
| Willie Boyce | Cincinnati man sentenced to prison for Covid relief fraud | PPP | one count of wire fraud | $98,500 fraudulently claimed a gross income | guilty plea | 13 months | 2023-10-11 |
| Marcus Hawkins | Cincinnati man sentenced to one year & one day in prison for pandemic relief fraud | EIDL | COVID-19 relief fraud | $60,000 restitution ordered | sentenced | 13 months | 2023-05-10 |
| Jon Devol | Dayton man sentenced to federal prison for fraudulently obtaining Social Security, COVID relief funding in his deceased father’s name | 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 | Convicted Felon Sentenced to Prison for Pandemic Relief Fraud (DOJ, 2025) | 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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