Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
10 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Western District of Washington, naming 10 defendants. By program: 7 PPP, 2 EIDL, 1 unemployment insurance. 4 have a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 10 of them, from $473,082 to $25,000,000. Source dates run from 2021-08-10 to 2025-01-28.
Cases
10 defendants · 7 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakiru Olanrewaju Ambali | U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington, "Canadian resident sentenced to 3+ years in prison for more than $1 million fraud on COVID relief programs" (March 14, 2024) | UI/EIDL | wire fraud and aggravated identity theft | $25,000,000 total claims sought for pandemic unemployment benefits | guilty plea | 42 months | 2024-03-14 |
| Mukund Mohan | United States v. Mohan | PPP | wire fraud, money laundering | $5,500,000 attempted fraud amount | plea | 24 months | 2021-08-24 |
| Eric R. Shibley | United States v. Eric Shibley — W.D. Wash., No. CR20-0174-JCC | PPP/EIDL | wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering | $3,500,000 amount sought | trial | 48 months | 2022-03-08 |
| Paradise Williams | W.D. Wash. No. 2:23-cr-00090 | UI, ERAP, PPP, EIDL | wire fraud; money laundering | $2,000,000 personally received fraudulent proceeds | sentenced | 60 months | 2024-03-05 |
| Fatiu Lawal | United States v. Lawal — unemployment benefits case, W.D. Wash. at Tacoma | UI benefits | wire fraud and aggravated identity theft | $1,345,472 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 54 months | 2025-01-28 |
| Austin Hsu | Issaquah Man Sentenced for Covid-19 Relief Fraud Scheme | PPP/EIDL | Scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans (PPP and EIDL) | $709,104.97 proceeds received | plea | 24 months | 2021-08-10 |
| Joseph M. Freeman | W.D. Wash. No. 2:23-cr-00008 | PPP | conspiring to defraud the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) | $646,000 conspiring to defraud... of | plea | 12 months | 2023-05-16 |
| Abidemi Rufai | United States v. Abidemi Rufai — unemployment and EIDL case, W.D. Wash. | UI/EIDL/tax refunds | Wire Fraud, as charged in Count 2, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343; and b. Aggravated Identity Theft, as charged in Count 11, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A | $604,260 restitution ordered | guilty plea | 60 months | |
| Donte McClellon | A 30-Year-Old New York City Man Was Sentenced Today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 42 Months in Prison for Three Counts of Wire Fraud | PPP | three counts of wire fraud and two counts of bank fraud | $500,948 PPP loan proceeds obtained | sentenced | 42 months | 2024-05-29 |
| Danni Walker | W.D. Wash. No. 2:22-cr-00105 | PPP | wire fraud | $473,082 steal | guilty plea | 3 years probation | 2024-03-13 |
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; 4 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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