Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
22 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Northern District of Texas, naming 16 defendants. By program: 20 PPP, 2 other or unclassified. 9 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 22 of them, from $70,955.88 to $66,038,049.27. Source dates run from 2021-07-28 to 2025-12-18.
Cases
16 defendants from 22 rows · 5 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Reis | United States v. Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge — N.D. Tex., Fort Worth | PPP | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | $66,038,049.27 restitution ordered | plea guilty plea | 120 months | 2025-12-18 |
| Stephanie Hockridge | United States v. Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge — N.D. Tex., Fort Worth | PPP | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | $63,952,063.64 restitution ordered | jury trial jury verdict | 120 months | 2025-11-24 2025-11-21 |
| DOJ Press Release — Stephanie Hockridge SENTENCED to 10 years | PPP | $63,952,063.64 restitution ordered | 120 months | ||||
| Dinesh Sah | PPP | wire fraud, money laundering | $24,800,000 intended loss; amount sought | plea | 132 months 135 months | 2021-07-28 | |
| Steven Jalloul | PPP | engaging in monetary transactions using property derived from unlawful activity | $23,000,000 attempted loss | plea | 120 months | 2022-04-21 | |
| Festus Adenisimi | PPP | Conspiracy to Defraud the United States | $10,283,737.65 restitution ordered | plea | 57 months | 2025-03-10 | |
| Tamara Starks | PPP | wire fraud | $8,500,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 86 months | 2025-01-16 | |
| Terrance Barnard | Unclassified pandemic relief | conspiracy to commit health care fraud and aggravated identity theft | $7,000,000 (DOJ release) | sentenced | 84 months | 2024-04-04 | |
| William Paul Gray | COVID-19 Health Care Fraud | Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud | $7,000,000 actual loss | plea | 54 months | 2023-11-30 | |
| Andrew Travis Johnson | PPP | three counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity | $4,000,000 total amount of loans obtained or ordered restitution | plea | 180 months | 2023-08-24 | |
| Hope Leticia Hastey | PPP | bank fraud, identity theft | $3,545,894.36 obtained | plea | 30 months | 2023-12-18 | |
| James Flores | United States v. James Flores — U.S. District Court, N.D. Tex., Fort Worth | PPP | $1,844,410.40 restitution ordered; probation only | guilty plea | 3 years probation | ||
| Michael Cota | United States v. Michael Cota — U.S. District Court, N.D. Tex. | PPP | $1,844,410.40 restitution ordered; probation only | guilty plea | 3 years probation | ||
| Shantelle Hawkins | PPP | false statements, conspiracy, wire fraud | $1,800,000 17 fraudulent PPP loan applications | guilty plea | 41 months | 2025-06-26 2025-06-25 | |
| Kaylee Ree Lunn | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud | $890,000 amount sought | plea | 48 months | 2025-12-05 | |
| Vivian Arriaga | United States v. Vivian Arriaga — U.S. District Court, N.D. Tex. | PPP | $70,955.88 restitution ordered; probation only | guilty plea | 3 years probation |
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; 9 of the 22 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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