Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
10 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of Texas, naming 10 defendants. By program: 8 PPP, 2 EIDL. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 9 of them, from $141,070 to $13,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-06-17 to 2025-07-25.
Cases
10 defendants · 1 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shashank Rai | Shashank Rai, 31, Pleaded Guilty on Feb. 9, 2021, to Making False Statements to a Bank and Was Sentenced to 24 Months (Beaumont, Texas) | PPP | making false statements to a bank | $13,000,000 attempted | plea | 24 months | 2021-06-17 |
| Samuel Morgan Yates | Bowie County Man Sentenced for COVID-Relief Fraud | PPP | wire fraud | $5,500,000 attempted | plea | 68 months | 2022-09-06 |
| Sally Jung | Texas man and woman behind My Buddy Loans charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent applications for COVID relief | PPP | Wire fraud | $3,700,000 forfeiture ordered jointly; >$3.7M monetary penalties (not stated as restitution) | guilty plea | 66 months | 2022-2023 |
| Fahad Shah | Collin County Wedding Planner Sentenced for COVID Relief Fraud | PPP | wire fraud | $3,300,000 attempted | plea | 31 months | 2021-09-16 |
| Brian Bui | Collin County Dentist Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Related Fraud | PPP | wire fraud | $1,890,000 amount of forgivable loans obtained through materially false application paperwork | guilty plea | 18 months | 2023-06-05 |
| Clifton Pape | Texas man and woman behind My Buddy Loans charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent applications for COVID relief | EIDL | wire fraud | $1,560,000 obtained (release: the SBA issued more than $1.56 million in EIDL Advances on the fraudulent applications; $1.44 million more applied for) | plea | 121 months | 2022-11-28 |
| Acheon King Aleidron | EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud | $415,000 actual loss | plea | 57 months | 2024-07-01 | |
| Eric Reed Marascio | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Eric Reed Marascio, Eastern District of Texas (Document 946) | PPP | $225,745 restitution ordered | 41 months | 2025-05-01 | ||
| Kenisha Simmons | Judgment in a Criminal Case, Eastern District of Texas — United States v. Simmons (Document 1-2) | PPP/EIDL | $141,070 restitution ordered | 5 years probation | |||
| Olamide Olatayo Bello | E.D. Tex. No. 4:23-cr-00136 | PPP/EIDL | conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering | jury trial | 293 months | 2025-07-25 |
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.
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