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10 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of Texas, naming 9 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 2 EIDL. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 9 of them, from $415,000 to $13,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-06-17 to 2025-07-25.

Cases

9 defendants from 10 rows · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first

DefendantCase pageProgramChargeAmountDispositionSentenceDate
Shashank RaiPPPmaking false statements to a bank$13,000,000
attempted
plea24 months2021-06-17
Samuel Morgan YatesPPPwire fraud$5,500,000
attempted
plea68 months2022-09-06
Andrea CoonPPPWire fraud$3,700,000
restitution ordered
guilty plea66 months2022-2023
Paul CoonPPPWire fraud$3,700,000
restitution ordered
guilty plea121 months2022-2023
Clifton PapeEIDLwire fraud$3,700,000
loss alleged
plea121 months2022-11-28
Fahad ShahPPPwire fraud$3,300,000
attempted
plea31 months2021-09-16
Brian BuiPPPwire fraud$1,890,000
amount of forgivable loans obtained through materially false application paperwork
guilty plea18 months2023-06-05
Acheon King AleidronEIDLconspiracy to commit wire fraud$415,000
actual loss
plea57 months2024-07-01
Olamide Olatayo BelloPPP/EIDLconspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money launderingjury trial293 months2025-07-25

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 10 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.

Court hub: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas — every filing in the archive from this court, with the case pages it holds.

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