Federal district · prosecutions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
11 pandemic-relief fraud prosecution records for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, naming 11 defendants. By program: 3 PPP, 8 unemployment insurance. None has a case page in the archive. An amount is stated for 11 of them, from $20,833 to $1,413,922. Source dates run from 2021-06-02 to 2026-06-17.
Cases
11 defendants · 0 with a case page · sorted by amount, largest first
| Defendant | Case page | Program | Charge | Amount | Disposition | Sentence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen Williams | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Jalen Williams, Eastern District of Wisconsin (Dkt. 434) | UI | $1,413,922 restitution ordered | 48 months | |||
| Thomas Smith | Thomas Smith (Age 46) of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Was Sentenced to 57 Months' Imprisonment for Fraudulently Obtaining Over $1 Million | PPP | $1,200,000 amount sought | plea | 57 months | 2021-06-02 | |
| Ronnell Bowman | UI | conspiracy to commit murder for hire; using a firearm during a crime of violence; conspiracy to commit mail fraud | $863,844 proceeds received | plea | 9999 months | 2026-06-17 | |
| Stephen Smith | Milwaukee Man Sentenced for his Role in COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme (2021-07-14) | PPP | fraudulently seeking Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans | $600,000 attempted | plea | 36 months | 2021-07-14 |
| Marcus Malbro | UI | Conspiracy to defraud pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs; Mail fraud | $594,000 restitution | guilty plea | 33 months | 2024-11-12 | |
| Jaquan Wright | UI | conspiracy to defraud pandemic-related UI programs | $392,000 restitution | sentenced | 60 months | 2024-09-13 | |
| Quevon McKinnie | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Quevon McKinnie, Eastern District of Wisconsin (Dkt. 763) | UI | $372,008 restitution ordered | 36 months | |||
| Vernell Hamilton | UI | conspiracy to defraud pandemic-related UI programs; mail fraud | $368,000 restitution | sentenced | 48 months | 2024-07-12 | |
| Lawrence Turner | UI/PUA | Conspiracy to commit murder for hire; firearms; conspiracy to commit mail fraud (COVID-19 UI fraud - concurrent) | $203,148.83 proceeds received | plea | 9999 months | 2026-06-17 | |
| Ramon Savage | Judgment in a Criminal Case — United States v. Ramon Savage, Eastern District of Wisconsin (Dkt. 721) | UI | $161,920 restitution ordered | 48 months | |||
| Robert J. Solberg | Crivitz Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for PPP Fraud | PPP | conspiracy | $20,833 PPP loan proceeds received | not specified | 18 months | 2023-10-17 |
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 11 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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